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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
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To call a service that is either local (such as an archive system) or remote (such as
Nexis). In iNEWS, users connect to services to access data.
cue See production cue.
cume time The amount of airtime required from the beginning of the show up to a certain point in
the show in order for the show to remain on-schedule. It is displayed in an optional
field with each entry in a rundown queue.
Cume time is used by some producers when building, ordering, or airing a newscast.
dead queue A queue containing stories that have either been deleted by users or purged
automatically by the system. As new space is required, these stories are recycled
automatically from the Dead queue.
directory
panel
An area in the workspace that displays the hierarchy of folders and queues in iNEWS.
Users can use the Directory panel to navigate through the system.
distribution
code
A word or string of characters used by distribution servers to control where stories are
sent and filed. When users move or duplicate (“dupe”) a story to a queue, they can add
a distribution code so that additional copies of the story can be forwarded.
duration The length of a show or story. It is calculated by using the elapsed time in a broadcast
when a story begins.
easy lock A feature that allows a user to open a queue or story while preventing others from
doing the same. It is similar to a key lock, but is created without a key. Therefore,
others cannot be granted access. See also
lock, key lock.
edit lock A feature that prevents two people from working in a story simultaneously. The
iNEWS system automatically places a story in edit-lock mode when a user is working
in a story, and a user can also manually edit lock a story.
float To temporarily suspend a story. Its time is removed from the show timing. Float time
is also ignored by the teleprompter and machine control. Floating is used when you
are not sure whether or where to put a story in a rundown.
form A template that contains the fields and field positions, such as title, writer, etc.,
required for a story.
grommet Marker in the story that indicates placement of a production cue. It may appear in blue
or pink, depending on whether it is selected.
hard-out
time
A story in a newscast that has a fixed start time, usually at the end of a segment or
show. It is manually entered into the system.