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Adding a CG Production Cue
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To add a production cue:
1. Open the queue containing the story you want to work with.
For more information, see “Opening a Queue” on page 62
.
2. Click a story to select it.
3. In the Story panel, position the cursor in the story text where you want the production cue
marker to appear.
4. Do one of the following:
t Select Story > Insert Production Cue.
t Press Alt-Insert.
A production cue marker appears at the location in the story text, and the Instruction
sub-panel appears with the cursor in a Production Cue text box (or area) to the left of the
Story Text panel.
5. Type the production cue in the box.
For the correct format of production cues, contact your system administrator.
Adding a CG Production Cue
A delimiter character must be used to introduce each production cue that is for a machine, such
as a character generator. The default character is an asterisk (*), but your system administrator
may select another character.
Here’s an example of a 2-line name CG:
*cg 2line John McCain
R-Arizona
n
Some sites are configured to provide users with a graphical CG titling feature called CG Title
Entry. For more on how to use this tool to add CG production cues to stories, see Using CG Title
Entry.
To add a CG production cue, in the Production Cue text box, do the following:
1. Type an asterisk (*).
2. Type CG (or the name of the device) followed by a space, then the template name, such as
2line or loc1.
3. Type another space, then the first line of the character generator data, such as a person’s
name.
4. Press Enter.