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Making this exercise even better, Live Story Creator 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 ) Live Story will immediately show an
Update icon at the top of the script pane (Figure
304). Click this to reload the .docx file with the changes you made.
Note: This will reset Live Story’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 Live Story’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 305 FIGURE 306
Figure 305 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 Live Story produced a ‘default’ picture in picture effect, as shown.
But perhaps you want to make some changes. In Figure 306, we have edited the Comment command to read
“PiP Football Star large top right”. Since w e defined the position of the overlay, and specified a size, we
achieved a more pleasing result.
The Comment command “title” provides another example of default operation. Add the simple entry “title
brackets lower third” to a comment. Live Story evaluates the comment when the eyeline indicator reaches
it, and the predetermined defaults are used so you may not even need to add any more detail. The designated
title page (Brackets Lower Third) is automatically i) loaded into a Buffer, ii) assigned to a DSK, iii) faded on,
iv) held briefly, and then v) faded off).
In this example, you might kick things up just a bit by changing the effect used to introduce the title page.
The
Comment command “Show Title brackets lower third Edge LtoR(H)” works quite nicely for this purpose.
Hint: You might want a title to remain in view longer than the default time. To do this, add the word “hold”
to the command you use to display the title. Then insert a new comment into your script at the point where
you want to remov
e the title from view and enter the command “title off”.