User`s guide

Chapter 1: Welcome to DekoMOS
20 Pinnacle Systems DekoMOS User’s Guide
How to use this Guide
The DekoMOS User Guide is an instructional manual for installing and learning to use DekoMOS
as well as a handy reference for day-to-day operation. This User Guide offers step- by-step
instructions and general information.
If you are responsible for installing DekoMOS, carefully follow the instructions in the installation
chapter. If you are responsible for installation or for creating Deko templates, refer to the chapter
Preparing to Use DekoMOS. If you are responsible for placing graphics in stories or for playout,
you can find specific chapters for those tasks. However, you may want to read or skim all chapters
to better understand how DekoMOS works and what to do if you have difficulty.
References to the Newsroom Computer System, or NCS, apply to ENPS from Associated Press
and to iNEWS from Avid Technology. Specific references to ENPS or iNEWS are made only
where there is a difference.
User Guide Conventions
The following terms are typically used to describe personal computer use and are used in this
manual:
Click is to press and release the left button of your mouse. A click places the text cursor,
activates a window, or activates a choice in a dialog box.
Double-click is to press and release the left mouse button twice, rapidly in succession.
Right-click is to press and release the right button of your mouse.
Choose refers to activating items, usually by clicking, in menus and dialog boxes that tell the
system what to do.
Select refers to specifying files, windows, or text upon which the software will act.
The > character is used in place of “then choose” in descriptions of user interface pathways.
For example, Start>Settings>Control Panel means “Click Start, then choose Settings, then
choose Control Panel.”
Press refers to pressing keys on your keyboard. A plus (+) sign between keys that you are
instructed to press means that you should press the first key and continue to hold it down
while pressing the second key.
Other Sources of Information
Your DekoMOS includes online help with much of the same information as this guide. Click Help
on the DekoMOS menu bar.
Be sure to read the Readme.txt file on the CD for information that was not available at the time of
this printing.