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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
Producer Basics
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Producer Basics
This section provides an overview of production-based features of iNEWS and typical news
production tasks performed by news staff.
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Rundown Queues
• Scripting
• Broadcast Control
• Field Separators
Rundown Queues
When you produce a show, you use a rundown queue to prepare the show for broadcast.
Rundown queues vary in appearance and function based on the needs of each show. Your system
administrator should know the rundown queues you need to use for each show.
You can add stories to the rundown queue by creating a story within the rundown queue or by
moving or copying a story from another queue and adding it to the rundown queue.
Scripting
When the news staff scripts a story, they enter production cues into the scripts. Production cues
contain plain text production instructions and machine instructions used to control production
devices, called event requests.
These event requests are then compiled into event lists and downloaded to the iNEWS |
Command system as playlists.
Broadcast Control
As a producer, you should already be familiar with the following terms:
• Super: a complete display stored on a character generator. Also known as preset mattes.
• Character Generator Template: Refers to templates, or macros, stored on a character
generator. Templates contain fields to which you add text. When you add text to a character
generator template, the character generator uses the text and the template to build a super.
Avid iNEWS integrates with broadcast control systems, such as iNEWS | Command, that let you
create production cues to display supers. They also let you create production cues that build
supers out of character generator templates and text that you supply. The iNEWS | Command
system controls playback on a wide range of graphics and video devices without sacrificing
functionality.