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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
iNEWS Navigation Made Easy
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Opening a Directory
Open a directory when you want to work with the queues and stories it contains.
To open a directory:
1. Select the directory you want to open.
2. Do one of the following:
t Double-click the directory.
t Click the plus (+) sign to the left of the directory you want to open.
t Press the right arrow key.
The directory expands to show you all of the subfolders and queues in it.
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Pressing the right arrow key on the keyboard when a queue is selected in the Directory panel will
open the queue. When you open a queue from the Directory panel, the contents of the queue
automatically open in the Queue panel, and the first story in that queue appears in the Story
panel.
Closing a Directory
Close a directory when you are finished working in it or if you want to view other information in
the Directory panel.
To close a directory:
t Click the minus sign (-) to the left of the directory you want to close.
t Press the left arrow key.
The directory collapses and hides all of the subdirectories and queues in it.
Up arrow Moves the cursor up one item in the directory
End Moves the cursor to the bottom of the directory
Down arrow Moves the cursor down one item in the directory
Page Up Scrolls up one screen
Left arrow Closes an expanded directory
Page Down Scrolls down one screen
Right arrow Opens the selected directory or queue
Key Action