NewTek TriCaster TCXD300, User Manual

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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 these 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.
17.2.3 NAMING STAND-IN IMAGES
Among other things, the Title Editor in TriCaster’s Media Players (DDR, Stills and Titles) allows
you to substitute a different image for stand-in (or “placeholder”) images in Title Pages (.cgxml)
exported from LiveText. Details of how to replace stand-in images are found in the TriCaster
manual.
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 .