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Chapter 21 AUTHORING TITLE PAGES
NewTek’s (extra cost) standalone LiveText™ application delivers live titles and CG
pages to Switcher inputs across the network from an external system, and can also
author title pages that are editable right in the
system’s Media Players. An integrated
version of LiveText with similar offline page authoring capabilities is included with
your system to let you create title pages
with ‘live - editable’ text and image elements
for use in the Media Players.
LiveText ™ is a full-blown, powerful, professional program, and is also available at extra cost as a standalone
application. The LiveText manual can be accessed from the Help icon in the system’s Launch Screen , or the
Resource webpage served by to your local network and available in the web browser of connected devices.
In this Chapter, then, we will review matters specific to this offline version of LiveText.
SECTION 21.1
SESSIONS, PROJECTS AND DISPLAY
LiveText projects are launched from the Session Page in the Launch Screen . After creating a new session or
opening an existing one, click the Graphics menu link. This reveals options and links at right, discussed
previously in the Launch Screen chapter just mentioned.
LiveText uses the current session settings for new projects (created within the LiveText File menu or from
the Session Page ) and bitmap file exports.
This offline version of LiveText does not send output from the canvas to the system’s video outputs. For this
reason, the Live Display pane and associated tools that appear at upper-right (above the Pages Panel ) in
LiveText standalone do not appear in the offline LiveText interface.
21.1.1 FILES/FILEBIN
LiveText’s File menu dialogs ( Open , Add , 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’ or dynamic paths. That is, for a given session, the path
the Quicktab refers to is established at launch time. For this reason, the offline 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.