Autocue WinCue Pro News Nexus User Manual

WinCue Pro News Nexus

Version 1.3

User Guide

About this guide

The WinCue Pro News prompting solution has been designed for general production and prompting; its features include Runorder management, simultaneous prompt, edit, and script timings calc ulation. WinCue Pro News can also be used to connect to networked newsroom systems; by doing this WinCue Pro News is able to open scripts, sent from a third party newsroom system, and then prompt them. This user guide has been produced to explain to you how to set-up and use WinCue Pro News with the NEXUS newsroom system.

Audience

This guide is for all users of the WinCue Pro News NEXUS prompting software. From complete WinCue novices to experts, this guide should be useful to all, providing a quick reference for experts and systematic help for novices. The pre-requisites to using this guide are that you are familiar with the Microsoft® Windows environment, in particular that of Microsoft® Wor d.

Contents

About this guide .....................................................................................................2

Audience.................................................................................................................2

1 Set-Up 4

1.1 NEXUS Set-Up .............................................................................................. 5

2 Configuration 6

2.1 WinCue Configuration ..............................................................................7

2.1.1 Port Settings.........................................................................................7

2.1.2 General................................................................................................8

2.1.3 On-line Editing..................................................................................... 8

2.1.4 Story (Type 1)....................................................................................... 9

2.1.5 Order List ............................................................................................ 11

2.1.6 Formatted Text Conversion.............................................................12

2.1.7 Code Page........................................................................................14

2.1.8 Presenter Settings..............................................................................14

2.1.9 Banner................................................................................................15

2.2 Troubleshooting........................................................................................ 16

3 Opening Nexus Scripts in WinCue 20

3.1 Opening NEXUS scripts............................................................................21

3.1.1 Receiving Scripts............................................................................... 22

3.2 Panic Mode .............................................................................................. 23

3.2.1 Enabling/Disabling Panic Mode.....................................................24

4 Technical Support 25

4.1 Technical Support.................................................................................... 26

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1 Set-Up

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1.1 NEXUS Set-Up

WinCue can communicate with the NE XUS newsroom system via Serial, TCP/IP, or SPX connection.

As the newsroom system that WinCue will be connecting to is specific to the client site the NEXUS interface set-up is completely reliant on the settings of the newsroom system, WinCue is configured to match its settings.

Before moving onto the next section of this User Guide make sure that you take note of the configuration settings of your NEXUS newsroom system.

You will be able to find the relevant information on configuring the NEXUS newsroom with third-party software in the NEXUS User Guide provided with your system.

Note: The configuration of NEXUS news system should be carried out by NEXUS Administrators only.

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2 Configuration

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2.1 WinCue Configuration

In WinCue, click on the Tools menu and select Options, a WinCue Configuration window will open, from here click on the News Interfaces option and then on the NEXUS Download option. The settings for the NEXUS interface will appear opposite; it is here that you configure how WinCue and NEXUS communicate.

2.1.1 Port Settings

The Port Configurations tab is where you set-up how your WinCue machine is going to communicate with the NEXUS newsroom system.

The connection will automatically be named 'Nexus Download Port Configuration', so the only setting that is required to be selected is the port type that you will be using for the connection. If using a Serial connection enter the

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port details in the Serial port settings section, if using a TCP/IP or SPX connection enter the network details in the Network details.

Once you have entered the relevant information in this section click on the General tab.

2.1.2 General

A Profile Settings window will appear, it is from here that you will configure how WinCue will handle the incoming scripts. The first Tab will contain the settings for the font that is used to display the scri pts, click on the Font button to select the font and font size of the text.

2.1.3 On-line Editing

The tab after General is the On-line Editing tab; these options determine whether the WinCue user will be able to modify the scripts received by WinCue via the NEXUS interface.

Edit Story Text – If this is selected then the user can edit the scrip ts.

Re-Order Rundown – This allows the user to change the order in which the

stories are prompted.

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