NewTek TriCaster TC1 (2 RU) - Manual (Page 289)

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So, not only are LiveStory Comment commands easier to write, often performing multiple operations with a
single entry, but they are ‘smarter’, and easier to maintain and update. Which br ings us to another key
feature.
L IVE U PDATES
As clever as LiveStory is, at times you will want to experiment, or need to tweak your wording to bring about
the result you intend. As we mentioned, you don’t even need to press Play to test modifications, you can
simply reload the .docx file and hover the mouse over commented text to see the way the embedded
commands have been evaluated.
FIGURE 326
Making this exercise even better, LiveStory has a built-in Update feature, and monitors changes to the script
file you loaded. Suppose you are using a laptop to edit your script in Microsoft Word. You might opt to save
the file across a network connection to (for example) the shared Public\Documents folder on your TriCaster.
Then, when you modify the document and save it (which typically requires just a quick keyboard operation
to perform - CTRL + s ) LiveStory will immediately show an
Update icon at the top of the script pane (Figure
326). Click this to reload the .docx file with the changes you made.
Note: This will reset LiveStory’s eyeline indicator to the top of the script, so don’t do update when your talent
is reading from the teleprompter you are quite confident that they will miss you with whatever they throw!
D EFAULT B EHAVIORS
We mentioned that LiveStory’s Comment commands can perform compound operations, and are simpler to
use than macros. Actually, they are designed to provide a useful result even when you don’t supply complete
information. Let’s look at an example.
FIGURE 327 FIGURE 328
Figure 327 above illustrates the result of the Comment command “ Fade Football Star on in PiP” (the simpler
entry “PiP football star” would have produced the same result). We didn’t supply much detail about our
intentions, so LiveStory produced a ‘default’ picture in picture effect, as shown.