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17 SPEEDEDIT AND LIVETEXT
LiveText™ is a powerful title and CG application, allowing you to
create title pages for use in the Live Desktop’s Media Players. Title
pages can be still or motion pages, including scrolls and crawls.
SpeedEDIT™ provides a host of world-class editing tools for pre and
post production purposes. You’ll find it innovative and powerful,
ready to handle numerous editing and also file conversion chores.
SpeedEDIT and LiveText are both full-blown, powerful, professional program also available as a
standalone applications. Each of these programs has its own complete manual, which can be
accessed from the Help icon in the Startup Screen (the source .pdf files are located in the
C:\TriCaster\Documentation folder, in case you wish to print them out). In this section, then, we
will review matters specific to the different applications when running in as an integrated part of
the TriCaster environment.
17.1 SPEEDEDIT
SpeedEDIT projects are launched from the Session Page in TriCaster’s Startup Screen . After
creating a new session or opening an existing one, click the Edit icon on the rotating function
selector ring (see Section 5.3). This reveals options and links at right, discussed previously in the
Startup Screen chapter just mentioned.
17.1.1 SESSIONS, PROJECTS AND DISPLAY
Normally, SpeedEDIT uses the current session settings for output on TriCaster’s video outputs.
The session format is also used for new projects created using SpeedEDIT’s
File menu (New) or
from TriCaster’s Session Page .
SpeedEDIT sends output to TriCaster’s audio and video outputs continuously, without selecting
any menu setting. Unlike the arrangement for
Live Desktop output, for SpeedEDIT purposes
TriCaster’s video outputs (rows 1-3) will all conform to the session format. That is, if the project
is HD, the SDI outputs will all be HD, and the analog outputs will all be Component HD.