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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
Newsroom System Overview
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Newsroom System Overview
Before discussing basic procedures and operations of iNEWS, it is important to describe the
components that make up the system and to review common terms and concepts specific to
iNEWS.
The iNEWS Workstation
The iNEWS newsroom computer system primarily consists of iNEWS Workstations, which
connect to iNEWS Servers. Journalists working at iNEWS Workstations can simultaneously
monitor news wires, work on stories, search archives, and access an array of online information
sources.
From individual workstations, producers and news directors can plan and monitor the progress of
shows by viewing their rundowns. Color highlights on the workstation screen show critical status
information, making it easy to see the current state of the show and production devices.
The iNEWS system enables users to collaborate on all aspects of the show production process.
Mail and messaging capabilities make group communication fast and efficient. And with the
iNEWS Community feature, personnel in various newsrooms can communicate and share data
across multiple iNEWS systems.
Access to the iNEWS database is not limited to workstations in the newsroom because iNEWS
seamlessly integrates with another Avid product; MediaCentral | UX is a cloud-based, web
front-end that lets you connect from a desktop computer, laptop, or mobile device for real-time
access to production assets, metadata, and iNEWS stories.
The iNEWS Server
The iNEWS Server manages all of the day-to-day activities of the newsroom. System
administrators can create forms-based displays and customize rundowns specific to their
newsrooms.
The data you and others in your newsroom create—stories, scripts, news rundowns, etc.—are
saved in a database (file system) on the iNEWS Server. When the iNEWS Server receives new
information, such as additions or changes to stories, that information is immediately available to
all newsroom personnel.
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Although iNEWS Server is referred to as a singular unit, an iNEWS system typically consists of
two or more computers called servers—all of which run the iNEWS Server software. Each
computer acts as a backup for the other to protect the overall stability of the system as a whole.