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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
Importing a Story
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t If the story you want to add is located in the row directly above or below the group to which
you want to add it, use the selector buttons to select it along with the story group, then do
one of the following:
- Select Tools > Create Story Group.
- Right-click and select Create Story Group.
To dissolve a group of stories:
t In the Queue panel, position your cursor on a story within the group and select Tools >
Dissolve Story Group.
t Right-click on any story within the group and select Dissolve Story Group.
To move a story group:
1. In the Queue panel, click on any square within the Story Group column (2nd column) to
select the group.
2. Drag and drop the group into its new location.
You can drag and drop a story group anywhere within a single queue or from one queue to
another in a different workspace and group associations are retained.
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Using the selector buttons (1st column) to move a block of stories containing two or more stories
in a group will retain the story group association. If using the selector buttons to select a block of
stories in which only one is in a group, moving the block will dissolve any story group
association for that story.
To remove a story from a group:
t Click the story’s selector button, then drag it out of the group and to a new location in the
queue.
Importing a Story
You can import files from your PC to the iNEWS newsroom computer system. After the files are
imported, they appear as stories in the active queue.
To import a story:
1. Open the queue into which you want to import a story.
For more information, see
“Opening a Queue” on page 62.
2. In the Queue panel, click where you want to insert the imported story.
It will be inserted above the selected story.
3. Select File > Import Story.