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• Click the Trim button in the footer to open a trimmer pane (Figure 238) that allows you to set the In
and Out Points for clips you plan to share (some file formats do not support trimming).
Clips that are added while still being captured can be re- trimmed to take advantage of file ‘growth’.
Hint: Checkmark the Still Frame switch to select a frame and convert it to a JPEG image file on upload.
19.3.4 THE EXPORT BUTTON
FIGURE 239
Also located in the footer of the Export Bin , the Export button is a toggle; that is, like the light switch in your
foyer, it has two states – on and off.
When lit, the Export processor is activated, and is either watching for qualified entries Bin entries to appear
for exporting, or actively processing those that are ‘ready to go’. (Conversely, of course, no light, no go …)
Note: The footer Export button is linked to the Dashboard Export button, which does the exact same thing.
19.3.5 OTHER ‘ ADD TO ’ METHODS
Let’s handle the final details you need to become a social media maestro. It seems obvious that manually
managing the minutiae of exporting could intrude into the already hectic life of a switcher operator. Live
production already demands a lot of attention.
Using Add in the Export Bin panel, entering comments, etc., would be quite a distraction. For this reason,
Export makes it as simple as possible to share your media, as follows
Once you have configured your Export presets, check-marked one or more in the Export menu, and decided
whether to add checks to Stills , Clips , or both in the Auto Queue menu, you have eliminated a good deal of the
fuss. But we can do better yet – in two ways:
• You can flexibly add both stills and clips to the Export Bin with a single click, keystroke or button
press. You can also add items from the playlist of a Media Player , or directly from the Grab and Record
features (see the heading File Operations in 11.1.1).
• Second, you can even automate the matter of adding custom titles and comments. Grab, Record as
well as the Media Players all support individual custom Names and Comments , which will supply the
corresponding metadata for your Export Media additions.
Better still, the Name and Comment fields in Grab and Record support DataLink (compare Section
11.2.3) . This lets you automatically supply unique and meaningful information to social media sites
along with your Export uploads. You can even mix DataLink keys with literal text, to produce
comments that embed things like the current time, the current score of a game, or the name of the
person on camera at the moment into coherent sentences.