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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
The iNEWS Workstation’s Main Window
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Status Bar
The iNEWS status bar is your key to vital information in an instant. It displays up-to-date
information related to urgent wires coming into the priority queue, monitor status for machine
control integration, and other important system messages as they happen. What appears will vary
depending on where you are working within the iNEWS application.
The status bar is divided into three areas where information can appear: the left end, the center,
and the right end.
The following table explains the types of data provided in the sections on the right end of the
status bar.
Toolbar(s) The toolbar area is located directly under the menu bar. Toolbars have buttons that
display icons representing the tasks they perform. Toolbar buttons offer a fast way
to perform common tasks. When certains tasks are unavailable, the buttons
representing those tasks appear gray. The iNEWS system provides several standard
toolbars, but you can create custom toolbars as well. You can also customize
whether toolbars are displayed. For more information, see
“Toolbars” on page 45.
Workspace(s) The workspace is the area of the main window in which you perform all of your
work, from editing and creating stories to reading wires or searching the database.
For more information, see
“The iNEWS Workspace” on page 34.
Status bar The status bar is an at-a-glance indicator, which appears at the bottom of the main
window. When urgent stories come in over the news wires, for instance, notices
appear in the status bar. For producers, the status bar displays important show
timing information and monitor status related to machine control integration.
Component Description
Area Description
Left end Displays Ready or a show’s timing information.
Center Displays a notice if the user receives new mail.
Right end Segmented in eleven sections, with each designed to display certain types of status
notifications.