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Note: It is possible to use LiveText’s File menu to open a project that does not correspond to the current
session settings. TriCaster will attempt to provide video output, but it’s possible that a given monitor may
not display it correctly.
20.1.1
FILES/FILEBIN
LiveText’s file dialogs (for File>Open, File>Add, File>Save and Save As) have pre-configured QuickTabs
pointing to the following default paths for the current session.
Note: the Quicktab links refer to ‘session-dependent’ paths, thus are not permanent. That is, for a given
session, the path the Quicktab refers to is established at launch time. For this reason, the TriCaster version
of LiveText does not support user-added Quicktabs.
LiveText’s File menu has two special items – Send Current Page to Live, and Send All Pages to Live. (These
take the place of other export options appearing in the standalone version of LiveText.) As you would expect,
these functions creates files for use in the Live Desktop, automatically storing them in the correct place(s)
for easy access.
Titles prepared in LiveText can be either still or motion pages. When you send a still page to Live, it becomes
a Title Page file, with the characteristic filename extension “.cgxml”. Title Page files can be edited in the Live
Desktop’s Media Players. Send Current Page to Live will automatically store exported title page files in the
D:Media\Titles\sessionname\projectname folder.
Motion pages (scrolls and crawls) that you send to Live are stored as bitmap animation files (with an .avi file
extension), suitable for playback in Live Desktop’s DDR. These are sent to the session folder inside
TriCaster’s main Clips folders. The content of motion pages cannot be edited in the Live Desktop.
When you select Send All Pages to Live, each page in the project is exported in turn to the appropriate format
and location. This means they are readily accessible in the Live Desktop’s Media Browser afterward, for easy
addition to a Media Player playlist. Title Page icons will appear grouped under their project names in the
Media Browser’s File Pane when you select the session name in the Location List at left.
20.1.2
NAMING STAND-IN IMAGES
Among other things, the Title Editor in TriCaster’s Media Players (DDR, Still and Titles) allows you to
substitute a different image for stand-in (or “placeholder”) images in Title Pages (.cgxml) exported from
LiveText (working with stand-in images is discussed in Section 11.3).
When creating title pages for this purpose in LiveText, you may find it saves you time to add the string
“_placeholder” somewhere in the filename of images you prepare for this purpose. For example, you might
name an image "headshot_placeholder.png", or "_PLACEHOLDER_crest.jpg".
Images named in this manner will automatically appear as stand-in images (unlocked) in the Title Pages you
export to TriCaster using the Send to Live options in LiveText’s File menu.