What's New

iNEWS v3.3

Expanded collaboration:  Enable your news team to view and access all project content from a single location and produce news content easily for multi-channel distribution with new story-centric workflow

  • Story-centric workflow allows users to manage and consolidate stories and related content into projects
    • Any user can see all stories associated with a project in a single view
    • Produce news content easily for multi-channel distribution
  • Enhanced search capabilities
    • Users can perform forward searches: lists of all stories that match their defined search criteria are continually updated
    • A single search can span multiple systems in an iNEWS Community environment
  • Simplified administration
    • Queue properties can be applied from configurable templates

Recap of earlier versions:

Version 3.0:

Released December 2009

  • Improved user experience
    • Simpler data entry for scripts and assignments
      • Script templates
      • Combo box (drop-down list) fields
      • Date / time fields
      • Checkbox fields
    • Links to internal / external assets
    • Updated “look and feel”
      • Preserves the existing intuitive layout
      • Enhanced appearance, new graphic elements, icons
  • Journalist desktop for entire news production workflow
    • Script creation (including graphic references), video browsing / editing, post-to-web from a single application
  • Increased queue-level security
  • MOS Enhancements
  • Web services API

Version 2.8:

Released November 2008

  • Hard-out show timing clock displays hours, improving support for shows longer than 1 hour
  • Added color rule for stories with MOS items in form
  • Ability to load monitor for queues in remote systems, when using Community feature
  • Increased device limit in /site/config from 3000 to 4096

Version 2.7:

Released July 2008

  • iNEWS Community feature
  • Increased maximum number of devices allowed per rundown from 10 to 20
  • Increased maximum number of stories per monitored rundown from 500 to 1000

Version 2.6:

Released November 2006

  • Support for iNEWS Command
  • Editable total-time field
  • Server and client workstation fully Unicode – allows system to easily support multiple languages within same system
  • PCI USB-to-serial adapter qualified to allow the iNEWS Console to run on machines that don’t have ISA bus slots
  • Wheel mouse support in queue panel

Version 2.1:

Released April 2006

  • Support for iNEWS Instinct and iNEWS Web Client
  • Show timing updates when current airing story is edited
  • Ability to select date field used for date search
  • Support for roStorySend message (with MOS Gateway 2.6)
  • New local printing style options & support of all print options
  • Editable air-date field
  • New user account options: cloning and removal
  • Plug-in state now preserved from PC to PC

This represents key features introduced with iNEWS version 2.1, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.0, and 3.3 software. For a complete list of new features, operational changes and software issues resolved, see the Avid iNEWS ReadMe documentation for all released versions.  www.avid.com/support