Avid iNews Command 3.0 User guide

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News material provided by WFTV Television Inc.
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Avid iNEWS Command v3.0 User’s Guide • 9329-65223-00 • Created 4/12/12 • This document is distributed
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Contents
Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 1 Introduction to iNEWS Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Architecture and Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Starting Command at a Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Status Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Support Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 2 Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Working with Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Playlist Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Customizing the Inventory Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Searching for Items in Inventory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Deleting Items in Inventory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Protecting Items in Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Editing Items in Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Playout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Media Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Displaying Thumbnails in Media Viewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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Editing Fulfillment Data and Time Codes in the Media Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Chapter 3 Playlist Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Types of Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Overview of Playlist Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Hiding a Playlist’s Playout or Channel Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Channel Groups Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Customizing the Channel Toolbar for Tally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Viewing Playlist Items by Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Graphic Trigger Count. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Customizing the Playlist Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Customizing the Cursor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Customizing Playlist Clocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Customizing Columns in Playlist Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Time of Day Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Resizing the Playlist Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Displaying Thumbnails in a Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Locking and Unlocking Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Working with Channel Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Locking Channel Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Assigning Channels in Playlist Viewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Setting the Graphics Style for a Channel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Setting Workstation Alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Working with Standalone Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Inventory Versioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Working with Embedded Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Editing Embedded Playlists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Using Time of Day Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Chapter 4 Shotbox Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Overview of the Shotbox Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Configuring the Channel Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
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Customizing the Shotbox Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Customizing the Shotbox Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Customizing the Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Resizing the Shotbox Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Displaying Thumbnails in a Shotbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Creating a Shotbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Deleting a Shotbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Working with Channel Groups in a Shotbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Locking a Channel Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Replacing a Channel Group in a Shotbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Assigning Channels in a Shotbox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Pinning Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Setting the Graphics Style for a Channel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Chapter 5 iNEWS Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Inserting Machine Control Events into Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Auto-assigning Media IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Using the Deko Select Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Inserting Deko Select Events into iNEWS Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Editing Deko Select Events into iNEWS Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Creating Multi-Triggered Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Loading Rundowns to Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Loading and Unloading Playlists from iNEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Monitor LOAD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Monitor Off and Unload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Event List Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Composite Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Item Status After Load to Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Changing Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Chapter 6 Working with Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Inserting New Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Deleting Stories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
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Updating Stories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Editing an Item’s Media ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Rearranging Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Floating & Unfloating Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Chapter 7 Command Tablet Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Connection Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
The iPad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Setting up Your First Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Viewing Command Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Starting the Command Tablet Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
The Sidebar and View Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Locking or Unlocking Shotbox Channel Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Working with Shotboxes in Table
t Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Working with Graphic Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Chapter 8 Playout Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
UI Controlled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Playout Media from Command Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Resolving a Mismatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Disabling the Keyboard at the Command Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Looping and Follow-on Playout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
USB Keypad Controlled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Channel-Specific Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
GPI Controlled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Toggling Between GPI and UI Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Appendix A Control Room Quick Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Failover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Appendix B Icon and Button Quick Reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Playlist and Shotbox Viewer Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Playlist Viewer Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Shotbox Viewer Icons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Channel Group Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Inventory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
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Playlist Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Appendix C Action Quick Reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
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Using This Guide
Congratulations on your purchase of your Avid iNEWS Command system.
Avid iNEWS Command offers a considerable amount of functionality for the state-of-the-art
newsroom, including newsroom system integration and playout control. With Command,
newsroom personnel can easily create and manage playlists.
This publication provides information on how to use the Command system.
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The documentation describes the standard features of a basic system configuration.
Therefore, your system might contain certain features and hardware that are not covered in
the documentation.
Symbols and Conventions
Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:
Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action
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A note provides important related information, reminders,
recommendations, and strong suggestions.
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A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to
your computer or cause you to lose data.
w
A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm.
Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when
handling electrical equipment.
> This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the
order you select them. For example, File > Import means to open the
File menu and then select the Import command.
This symbol indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a list
indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.
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You should always check online for the most up-to-date release notes or ReadMe
because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes
available. To view these online versions, visit the Knowledge Base at
www.avid.com/readme.
3. Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for
maintenance or hardware-related issues.
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answers, to view error messages, to access troubleshooting tips, to download updates,
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1 Introduction to iNEWS Command
Avid iNEWS Command is a device automation system that integrates with any iNEWS or
MOS-enabled newsroom computer system (NRCS) and provides broadcasters precise
control over a range of playout devices, including video servers, still stores, and character
generators in a broadcast news environment. Backup services and mirrored playout make
this system reliable while the user interface allows you to control multiple production
devices. Avid iNEWS Command works with Avid Service Framework applications and
services to ensure you always have the best system performance.
This chapter contains the following main sections:
Overview
- Architecture and Workflow
- Features
Starting Command at a Workstation
The User Interface
Support Dialog Box
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Overview
The basic iNEWS Command system is comprised of iNEWS Command Servers,
workstations that run the client software, and devices, such as Avid AirSpeed video servers,
Thunder production servers and Deko graphics system. The system is designed to be an
extension of your current Avid system. It allows you to receive playlists from Avid iNEWS
(or a MOS-based newsroom computer system) while controlling your video and graphics
devices, or even create standalone playlists using drag-and-drop functionality from an
inventory of media items.
The iNEWS Command system supports industry standard protocols that make it compatible
with many other products.
For newscast control your iNEWS Command system provides automated playlists, tracks
script changes, and automates control of production and playback devices including video
servers, and character generators. It integrates with the iNEWS rundown—or any other
MOS-enabled newsroom computer system—allowing a producer to change a show while it
is on air, and reflecting those changes in their iNEWS Command system. MOS commands
are provided so that journalists can use MOS plug-ins within the newsroom computer
system script.
Production playout devices, including Avid Deko and Avid Thunder on-air graphics
solutions and AirSpeed video servers, are triggered based on the events in the rundown.
News graphic and text templates for news elements can include logos and station IDs,
lower-third captions or superimposed graphics, and full-screen backgrounds with text.
Journalists, using iNEWS newsroom computer system, fill in the templates and insert them
into their stories in a variety of ways. For instance, machine control commands can be
entered using Deko Select or Thunder Select plug-ins. They can be entered manually or by
using a macro. They might also include clips and stills in their script by entering the ID of
the graphic in the story as a production cue. At air time an iNEWS Command operator
triggers the graphics playlist, which is synchronized with the iNEWS rundown.
Overview
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Architecture and Workflow
Avid iNEWS Command is scalable and can adapt to work in traditional newsroom-based
playlist creation to production-centric workflows where running orders are created inside the
iNEWS Command playback application. All of the components can run on a single
computer, or they can be spread out across multiple computers with redundant services
configured to take control if the primary services should become unavailable.
An example of a basic Command system architecture is shown in the following illustration:
In the most common news workflow, playlists are created using the iNEWS newsroom
computer system and the video and graphic assets are referenced in stories using their IDs or
by dragging and dropping them from an Active-X plugin, such as Deko Select.
Playlists can be saved to use later, standalone playlists can be created, and multiple playlists
can be embedded in a single running order. You can set a playlist to playback at a specified
time, or you can set groups of assets within a playlist to play in follow-on mode.
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A basic workflow is shown in the following illustration.
Features
The Avid iNEWS Command system provides the features described in the following table:
Feature Description
Playlist Functionality You can load a playlist from the newsroom computer system or create the
playlist manually within Avid iNEWS Command. You can also embed
within other playlists. This provides the flexibility to control event playout
locally, at the desktop, or from a rundown. It also allows seamless transitions
between shows or segments produced by separate editorial teams.
Manual and Automated
Triggering
Items can be played back manually by the operator, via keyboard, X-keys, or
GPI. Items can also be played automatically, using the follow-on or looping
playout setting. And a playlist can be set to start at a specified time of day.
This provides total integration with the facility, its systems, processes,
and staff.
Redundant Failover Mirrored playback allows a single Play command to initiate playback on two
channels simultaneously for seamless failover. All Command services are
redundant.
Advanced Playback Features These features include: autocue, play while record, and play while transfer.
Frame Accuracy Avid iNEWS Command provides frame accurate video playout for
follow-on items assigned to the same channel.
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