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Live story creator, Overview – NewTek TriCaster 2 Elite (3 RU) User Manual

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LIVE STORY CREATOR

This powerful Exclusive feature delivers numerous and powerful benefits. At the lowest level, you might use

it simply as a very convenient and useful teleprompter for your show’s talent. Coupled with the NDI Studio

Monitor included in the free NDI Tools bundle, this is a great feature. There is a great deal more to Live Story
Creator, however: Live Story is first and foremost a powerful natural language automation system.

OVERVIEW

FIGURE 298

When you first open the new

Automation

tab, located at right below the main

Switcher

(near

Buffers

), you’ll

see the empty script pane and some (rather lonely looking) controls at right (Figure 298).

Click or tap the (+) plus sign gadget below and to the right of the tab to open a

File Explorer

. Here you can

navigate to a location where you have previously stored a .docx file such as those created in Microsoft Word
(or compatible software with similar features). Figure 299

illustrates the result. Let’s discuss a few of the

Live Story interface controls and features before continuing.

FIGURE 299

Examining the tabbed Live

Story panel from left to right, you’ll see: