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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 Description
Monitor Displays the monitor server’s status:
• MON=ON (as shown in previous graphic), which means the monitor server
has been turned on for the current rundown queue.
• MON=LOAD (as shown at left), which means a rundown’s playlist has been
successfully loaded to all designated production devices, and the monitor
server is monitoring the situation. This section of the status bar appears green
when this status is displayed.
• MON=ERROR, which means an error has occurred and a problem exists
between iNEWS and the production device(s) for the current rundown queue.
This section of the status bar appears red when this status is displayed.
• MON=PARTIAL, which means a rundown’s playlist has been partially loaded
or loaded to only some of the designated production devices. This section of
the status bar appears yellow when this status is displayed.
Production Lock Displays PRD when the production lock is set for the opened queue. When not
locked this field appears blank.
Queue Info. Displays a numerical value representing the number of non-floated stories in a
rundown queue. (The monitor server does not load production cue data in floated
stories.)
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The letters WAT appears in this section of the status bar when the user
opens a queue with the Watch Appends attribute, such as the WIRES.ALL
queue.
Sort/Order Displays the queue status:
• SRT, which means the queue the user has navigated to is sorted.
• ORD is displayed if the queue is manually ordered.
• If neither, then this field appears blank.