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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
Timing a Show
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A tool tip appears over the text that shows the total amount of BlockTime=X:XX. This is the
Presenter’s read-time.
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If you choose the Block Time feature without a block of selected text, the read-time displayed is
calculated for the block of text that goes from the beginning of the story to the current cursor
position. If you change the length of a story, the block time will be refreshed automatically.
Timing a Show
To time a show, you can use either cume (cumulative) time, backtime, or time it to duration:
• Cume time: When you time a rundown queue cumulatively, you calculate the elapsed time
accumulated from the beginning of the show to the end of the show. Any queue with a cume
time field automatically calculates cume time.
To automatically calculate a show’s cumulative time, you can set the show start time as
00:00:00, or specify a hard start time (such as 04:00:00) for the show start time. You can also
set a hard start time for a specific story to affect the cume time calculation of stories below it.
• Backtime: When you backtime a rundown queue, you calculate the time at which each story
must start for the show to remain on schedule. Backtime is calculated as elapsed time.
To calculate backtime, the queue must have a backtime field. If you reorder stories in the
queue, the backtime is automatically adjusted.
• Duration: When you want the clock in the iNEWS toolbar to remain at 00:00 until you start
sync time, at which time the clock will begin counting up. The Time to Duration option can
be used with either the cume time or backtime fields. If cume time is used, a hard start time
of zero (0) must be entered for the first item of the show. If backtime is used, a hard out time
equal to the duration of the show must be entered in the last item of the show.