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Chapter 21 TITLE TEMPLATES
Your TriCaster ships with a huge number of stylish title template pages that can be
edited even while live, as discussed in Section 11.2. Many include replaceable images
embedded in them. This chapter explains how you can create your own custom title
template pages.
Of course, you can create static titles and graphics in Adobe Photoshop ® or other popular graphics and paint
applications, and display these as images in (for example) a DSK .
However, you will often find it useful to create, instead, an editable title page in Photoshop that, once loaded
and compiled by TriCaster as a native CGXML file, works just like those supplied with your NewTek system.
The text remains editable, and embedded images can be marked replaceable too.
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To make an image replaceable, simply add the string “REPLACEABLE” to the layer’s label in Photoshop. You
can even assign a DataLink key to the layer in the same fashion – naming the layer in the format
“REPLACEABLE %twitterpic%”, for example (without the quotation marks, of course).
As mentioned above, when you load the PSD into a Media Player , then open it in the Title Editor , the text is
editable, and placeholder images can be replaced. And it gets even better if you load the file into a Buffer .