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Pearl-2 User Guide Add a text overlay
2. From the Channels menu, select a channel and click Layouts . The custom layout editor opens.
3. Click Add new item and select Text . The new item is added to the layout editing area and to the top of
the list of items. The Text settings also appear.
You can change the order in which items appear on the layout editing area by re-arranging
the order the items appear in the list beneath
Add new item . Items at the top of the list
appear in front, and items lower down the list appear behind.
4. In the Text field, type what you want to appear in the text overlay. Include Overlay text shortcut
codes as needed. Press Tab or click outside the text field to refresh the preview in the custom layout
editor.
For example, if you enter:
%A %B %d, %G. Live streaming channel Auto A.
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