Anchors

Along with displaying the name of the anchor that reads the story text, anchors set the read rate that Inception uses to estimate the story time. When Inception estimates the time required to read a story it uses the read rate of the anchor that precedes the story text. When a story does not have an assigned anchor, Inception uses the Global Timing Read Rate set your Inception administrator to estimate the read time for the story. By default, Inception displays anchors as orange text in a story. The Read Word Count for a story does not include anchor name text.

To add anchors to a Broadcast story

1.In the Story Editor panel, click in the story text at the location to add a production cue.

2.Use the Production Cue list to select the anchor to add to the story. You can also use the hotkey associated with an anchor to add the anchor to the story.

Inception adds the name of the selected anchor to the story at the selected location. The Read Word Count field in the status bar updates to report the estimated time it will take for the added anchor to read the story.

3.You can delete, cut, copy, and paste anchors in the same manner as you do story text.

4.To estimate how long it will take the story anchor to read a portion of story text, select the text to time.

The status bar Selected Time field reports the estimated time for the anchor to read the selected text.