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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
Creating a New Story
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The Tabs option will only appear enabled in the Format menu when there is a story open in the
Story panel and your cursor is located in the Story Text sub-panel.
2. In the Tab stops section, type the length that a tab should indent, such as
0.5”
.
3. Click Set.
4. Click OK.
To change settings for indentations:
1. Select Format > Tabs.
The Tabs and Indentation dialog box opens.
2. In the Indentation section, type the length you want for margins or indentation in the
appropriate field, such as
0.5”
for the first line of each paragraph.
3. Click OK.
Creating a New Story
In addition to opening existing stories, you can create new stories in a queue.
To create a story:
1. Open the queue in which you want to create a story.
2. Position your cursor in the queue below where you want the new story created.
3. Do one of the following:
t Select File > New Story.
t Press Ctrl+N.
t Press the Insert key.
A new queue entry appears in the Queue panel as a blank row, and a blank story appears in
the Story panel.
4. In the Slug column of the Queue panel, enter the new story’s title.
5. Enter any other important information in the remaining columns for the new story.
6. In the Story panel, enter the story’s text.
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Avid iNEWS supports the use of hyperlinks in the story body. Links can be in the form of http://
or www. E-mail addresses are also recognized. A user preference is available, defining whether
clicked links will open into an Internet Explorer workspace within the iNEWS application or into
the user‘s default browser outside of the iNEWS application.