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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
Inserting a Time Stamp
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Pasting Text from the iNEWS Scratchpad
When you have copied text to the iNEWS Scratchpad, you can retrieve that text from it and place
the text into a story.
To paste text from the iNEWS Scratchpad:
1. Open the queue that contains the story with which you want to work.
For more information, see
“Opening a Queue” on page 62.
2. Click a story to select it.
3. In the Story panel, click in the story where you want to paste the text.
4. Select Edit > Scratchpad > Paste from Scratchpad (or press Shift+Ctrl+V).
The text is pasted into the text area you selected.
Erasing the iNEWS Scratchpad
You can erase the iNEWS Scratchpad after you have pasted text from it into another story.
To clear the iNEWS Scratchpad:
t Select Edit > Scratchpad > Erase Scratchpad (or press Shift+Ctrl+Delete).
All of the text is deleted from it.
Inserting a Time Stamp
A user can insert the current time, based on their workstation clock, into a story using the Time
Stamp function.
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The time stamp will be inserted at the current cursor location.
To insert a time stamp, do one of the following:
t Press Ctrl+T
t Select Edit > Time Stamp.
Adding Page Breaks to a Story
You can manually force page breaks into a story where you want them to appear. Usually, you
add page breaks when you are preparing to print the story.