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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
Terms and Concepts
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The iNEWS system protects your information by mirroring the database across all of the servers
within the system. The mirroring process provides redundancy, ensuring that any information
you add to your stories or rundowns is actually stored in multiple locations. Should anything
happen to one of the servers, the other servers can maintain services and ensure the integrity of
the database.
The iNEWS Community
The fast-paced nature of the news business requires the ability to turn content around quickly and
efficiently. Broadcasters must be able to gather news from a vast range of resources and engage
in collaborative efforts with others located in remote newsrooms.
The iNEWS Community feature eliminates communication barriers by allowing news teams to
drag and drop stories directly between systems, easily access and duplicate stories from other
iNEWS systems, and build shortcuts to remote locations. Journalists and producers at station
groups and large broadcast sites can access, view, edit, monitor and search for content across
various locations in a seamless fashion, thus enabling them to identify breaking news more
quickly, reducing the time and costs associated with getting stories to air. Users logged in to
systems within the same community can also communicate via the messaging feature of iNEWS.
Terms and Concepts
The following iNEWS terms and concepts are used throughout iNEWS documentation and are
provided here as a convenience.
Term Description
Directory Panel The Directory panel is one of the three primary panels that make up the
iNEWS workspace. It has two tabs: the Directory tab, which is your guide to
the iNEWS database, organized in a tree-style structure and consisting of
directories, sub-directories, and queues; and the Projects tab, which displays
projects and facets in a similar tree-style structure.
Directories Like a file drawer in a file cabinet, a directory is a storage space. Directories
can contain several levels of subdirectories and one or more queues.
Queues Like a folder in a file drawer, queues are the lowest level in a file structure and
contain one or more stories. A queue is an area of the database that contains
related stories, such as wire stories, search queries, or a show rundown of
scripts. The name assigned to a queue should identify its contents. Whatever a
queue’s contents, the detailed information of each story is visible only in the
Story panel. Use the Queue panel to manage stories in a queue, such as the
order, and so forth.