Re: Scott Systems automation?

[Cooper Fox <fox893@yahoo.com>]

By windows version do you mean SS32?  There's a HUGE
difference between the two, but in some ways I still
like the old DOS version.  SS32 has the ability to
allow recording from the on-air computer and you do
have the ability to preview the "carts" before playing
them.  Actually, I think there may be a way of doing
that with the DOS version.

You mentioned installing the new voice tracker
software.  I remember my first experience with using
scott Studios.  We did actually voice track.  It was a
pain, tho, because we were using the production
computer to record the tracks...  Just like you would
record a spot or song.  The system was setup so that
we could set the cue and seg points to talk over the
tail and intro of the songs.  It actually worked
pretty well.

SS versus Enco is give and take.  Enco tends to be a
lot more versatile than the older versions of SS, but
has a lot of quirks that I couldn't stand.  For
instance, if you look forward in the logs you have to
make sure that you go back to the same spot before the
current event ends otherwise you will jump over
whatever events you've switched.  Then there's the
fact that it locks the system for 30 seconds or so if
you try to search for a cart.  I have been told,
however, that a lot of the more annoying issues were
fixed in the later versions.



> 
> nature, which probably adds to its ability to keep 
> chugging along.  the station installed the newer, 
> windows-based upgrade in our "tracking" studio, and
> it 
> allows for a little more flexibility in voicing a
> shift; 
> and for a music format, it lets one sound more
> "live" 
> than on the DOS version.  
>   the difference is that in the DOS version, which
> we 
> still use to input commercials and programming
> elements, 
> you record each file separately, without the benefit
> of 
> hearing the completed sequence of events; the
> windows 
> version allows you to hear the element before and
> after, 
> be it song-voice track-spot or song-voice over-song.
>  the one downside to Scott, at least the way its 
> installed in our studios, it that you can only input
> 
> information into the system from the production
> studio, 
> and can not preview any upcoming elements in the
> on-air 
> studio.  
>   we have five other stations in the building that
> use 
> ENCO, and that allows input of data in ANY room, as
> well 
> as off-air previewing of material from the unit that
> is 
> on the air.  but there are more "hoops" needed to
> jump 
> through to make ENCO work smoothly.
>  Scott is very very user friendly in its simplicity,
> 
> though.
> 
> - -Chuck Igo


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