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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
Glossary
account A level of authorization assigned to individuals using iNEWS, it determines the types
of information they can access and the actions they can perform. Account types
include User, User Manager, Superuser, and System Administrator.
alias A code of up to 12 alphanumeric characters, it substitutes individual user names and
automates the distribution of a mail story to a group of people.
anchor 1. The person who presents a newscast on-air to a television audience. Also called a
presenter or talent.
2. In iNEWS, it is also the indicator in a Story panel that links a script to production
information.
auto-
backup
A function in iNEWS that writes a backup copy of an open story to a user’s local disk
at specified time intervals.
auto-
refresh
A queue attribute that automatically redisplays a queue whenever changes are made to
the queue.
autoscript A mode in which the Instruction panel of a story is automatically displayed if
production cues are in the story. If there are no production cues added to a story, the
story is displayed unscripted.
backtime The exact time when a story in a newscast must start in order for the show to remain
on schedule. Television newscasts typically use back-time to ensure that the newscast
ends precisely as scheduled.
Broadcast
Control
System
Command is a broadcast control system produced by Avid. It works with iNEWS to
run a show’s production devices, such as character generators, still-stores, and video
tape devices.
bulletin An incoming wire story coded as high-priority by a wire service, it is fed directly into
the iNEWS “priority” queue. Users are informed with both an audio signal and
lightning bolt icon in the status portion of the workspace.
connect Establish a line of communication between two points in a wired system, such as
between a server and a workstation (client PC) on a network.