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Table Of Contents
- Avid iNEWS User's Guide
- Contents
- Using This Guide
- iNEWS System
- Getting Started
- The iNEWS Workspace
- Toolbars
- Working with Queues
- Changing Forms for Viewing Queues
- Changing the Width of a Queue Form Field
- Easy Locking a Queue
- Key Locking a Queue
- Moving a Queue
- Opening a Queue
- Refreshing a Queue
- Searching for Text in a Queue
- Specifying a Destination Queue
- Unlocking a Queue
- Using Abstract Display in Queue
- Using Currency Total
- Viewing Queue Properties
- Working with Wires
- Stories - Creation and Modification
- Moving Stories
- Stories - Protection
- iNEWS Projects
- Scripted Stories
- Displaying a Production Cue
- Enabling Autoscript
- Adding a Production Cue to a Story
- Adding a CG Production Cue
- Adding a Video Production Cue
- Adding a Still Store Production Cue
- Moving a Production Cue
- Deleting a Production Cue
- Using Script Templates
- Using CG Title Entry
- Primary Machine Control Event Placeholder
- Using MOS Placeholders
- Unscripting a Story
- Production Tasks
- Producer Basics
- Endorsing a Story
- Inserting a Break Line
- Ordering a Queue
- Calculating Backtime from Out Time
- Displaying the Show Timing Clocks
- Establishing Broadcast Control in a Queue
- Loading a Rundown Queue into Broadcast Control
- Placing a Rundown Queue in Show Timing Mode
- Production Locking a Queue
- Setting Clock for Show Timing
- Setting Story Start Times in a Rundown Queue
- Synchronizing a Story
- Synchronizing the First Story
- Synchronizing a Rundown Queue During Broadcast
- Timing Story Text
- Timing a Show
- Floating a Story
- Tracking a Show
- Printing
- Messages and Mail
- Sessions and Preferences
- Macros
- Searching in iNEWS
- Local Databases
- Connecting to a Remote Service
- System Shortcuts
- Icons
- Glossary
- Index
Using CG Title Entry
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For example, if a standard weather story has a set of production cues and presenter text that are
always the same, your system administrator (or any user with access to the SYSTEM queue) can
create a story in SYSTEM.SCRIPT-TEMPLATES.W.WEATHER. In this story, place the
standard text, presenter text, and production cues found in the weather story. After the template
story is saved, the template is available to users via the Story menu or through an option in the
Story Text sub-panel’s context menu.
To use a script template:
1. Right-click in the Story Text sub-panel.
2. Select Insert Script Template. A Templates dialog box will appear with a list of all available
templates.
3. Enter the name or select the template from the list.
4. Click OK.
After the template is chosen, the template is inserted in the story’s body at the cursor
position.
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This feature can replace the use of complex macros used to insert template material.
Using CG Title Entry
The CG Title Entry tool enables newsroom personnel to simulate character-generated graphics at
the iNEWS workstation. The CG Title Entry dialog box displays sample templates, complete
with backgrounds and text fields, similar to the actual CG templates that appear on air. These
templates are configured and modified by your system administrator. Producers can use the Title
Entry dialog box to check the appearance prior to airing the production cue.
Most CGs are comprised of both background graphics and text fields. A background graphic
could be a small color bar that spans the bottom third portion of the television screen, a
full-screen graphic, a logo in the corner of the screen, and so on.