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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
Types of Macros
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Types of Macros
There are two types of macros.
• A macro assigned to a key or keystroke combination is known as a keyboard macro.
• A macro assigned to a customized toolbar button is known as a toolbar macro.
Each keyboard macro allows a user to enter many characters and commands with the press of a
single key or keystroke combination. In most cases, your system administrator will create
multiple keyboard macros as a set of macros called a keyboard that is stored in the system
directory. Each keyboard, or set of keyboard macros, typically contains macros grouped
according to a specific job or task, such as a Producer keyboard.
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Once created, a keyboard can then be selected as part of your user preferences. XREF
The system administrator can assign macros to function keys, such as F1, F2, F3, and so on,
across the top of the keyboard and to numeric keys on the numeric keypad, located at the right
side of the keyboard.
Users can create their own toolbar macros—using techniques similar to those used by system
administrators who write keyboard macros—and assign them to customized toolbar buttons.
Creating a Macro
An iNEWS Workstation keyboard can contain more than 100 macros, representing possible
states of the 12 function keys plus the 10 numeric keypad keys. Even more macros can be created
as buttons on customized toolbars.
Keyboard Macros
Keyboard macros begin with the "at" symbol (@) and are written in segments, which make up a
macro definition. Segments include a Key Indicator, a Separator symbol known as a tilde (~), an
Action, and an optional Comment. Segments must appear in the proper order for the macro to
work correctly.
For instance: <Key Indicator> <Separator> <Action> <Comment>
An example of a macro definition is:
@{f4}~{alt gd} wires.all{enter};Go to wires.all