Newtek LiveText Manuel d'utilisateur

3 2 GETTING STARTED This chapter will help you install, register and establish a network connection between LiveText™ and your (compatible) live p

94 10 CREDITS Acknowledgments: Tim Jenison, Jim Plant Engineering: Andrew Cross, Alvaro Suarez, Brian Brice, Cary Tetrick, Charles Steinkuehler,

4 2.2.1 STEP 1 Read the End User License Agreement, and click to accept (or decline) before proceeding. 2.2.2 STEP 2 Click Next to accept the de

5 2.2.3 STEP 3 If you wish to have a convenient Desktop or Quick Launch icon to launch LiveText, click the appropriate switches and click Next. 2.

6 2.2.5 STEP 5 With Launch NewTek LiveText check-marked, click Finish to proceed to the Registration pane. 2.2.6 STEP 6 If your LiveText system

7 2.3 MAKING THE CONNECTION LiveText is designed to play an important role as an integral component in a live production suite. In this configurati

8 2.4 A SIMPLE EXAMPLE Let’s try creating a simple title page: Figure 7 1. Click the T in Text and Drawing, then click in the Canvas to set the i

9 3. Click the Arrow (Select) button, and drag out a box (marquee) to surround both lines of text on the Canvas, selecting them (Figure 8). Figur

10 5. Click the View tab, and turn on Safe Area, to help compose your page Figure 11 6. Next, click both the Vertical and Horizontal Center but

11 Figure 13 9. Click the Filled Rectangle button in Text and Drawing 10. Click thumbnail number 6 in the Styles tab, and drag out a rectangle in

12 Figure 16 Go on to adjust Tracking, Leading in the tabbed Text and Drawing controls beneath the Canvas, and finish up by adding a Shadow to your

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13 3. Select Slate 1, loading that template into the Canvas for modifications Figure 18 4. Click the T button (Text) in the Text and Drawing con

15 3 TITLING TOOLS Designing and managing great looking still and animated text and graphics for your productions is easy with LiveText. It’s deep

16 3.2 OUTPUT ASPECT (4:3 OR 16:9?) You may be wondering whether you need to consider the image aspect of your LiveText projects. LiveText 2.0 pro

17 Note: Project and page files (.cg files) created with earlier versions of LiveText came in 4:3 and 16:9 formats. If you load one of these older f

18 The drop-down menu reveals a number of types of pages you can add. The uppermost choices represent new blank pages of various types. Hint: You ca

19 3.5 THE TOOL PANEL The Tool Panel situated left of the Canvas provides the basic tools to create the text and graphic elements of your title page

20 around the Canvas. Hold down the Shift key over a corner of a selected object and a curved arrow cursor indicates you may now drag to rotate it.

21 Filled Oval This tool works like the Filled Rectangle. Spline This tool and its siblings create freeform spline curve shapes. Click in the Can

22 Color - The large color well below the drawing tools permits you to set a base color for the objects you create using the tools. Left click it to

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23 Left Justify - aligns your text to begin just inside the left edge of the Text Safe Area Center - aligns the center of the line(s) with the center

24 GROUP/UNGROUP Even though each line of text and graphic object is really a separate entity, you can select multiple lines and Group them together

25 3.6.2 END BEHAVIOR The End Behavior setting in the Motion Panel determines what happens when an animated page runs its full course.  Over tell

26 GRID Define a grid to help you align objects on the Canvas in specific arrangements. The two numeric entry fields with associated mini-sliders a

27 The Safe Area switch in the Display pane enables an overlay on the Canvas. The lines make it easy for you to create your title pages with these o

28 Leading adjusts the amount of vertical space between text lines. Multi-select the lines you wish to adjust using CTRL + click (or by dragging a re

29 SHADOW Shadow options include Cast, Drop, and Soft (the numeric Soft setting is only relevant to the latter.) The Italic setting permits you to s

30 Radial applies the gradient starting at the center of the surface and emanating to the edge. Texture applies an image map (specified using the Ima

31 The dotted vertical lines in the gradient preview pane mark the nodes of specific color values that define the gradient. You can drag these left

32 3.7.5 THE FILEBIN You can drag image, .cg or .TXT file icons right onto the Canvas directly from this Filebin. (Loading a .CG file in this manne

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33 Figure 43 Consider the situation above, which shows a line of text that is, unfortunately, occluded by a rectangle object. Re-ordering layers is

34 Multi-select objects by dragging a box around them in the Canvas window; then just click a button in the Align section to line them up. The last

35 3.8 OPTIONS AND KEYBOARD CONTROL An extensive list of Keyboard Shortcuts is available (for example, pressing Alt + s toggles the Safe Area overla

37 4 DATALINK™ AND LIVETIME™ DataLink™ provides users of NewTek’s TriCaster™ and VT[5]™ live video production systems the ability to display dynam

38  The Network Linker keeps an eye on user-defined RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds from Internet sources, and updates values embedded in tit

39 4.1.2 THE DATALINK PROFILE As mentioned earlier, special DataLink components monitor specific external sources. These are the TXT, Serial, Netwo

40 4.1.6 SERIAL LINKER This Linker receives data from a number of popular external hardware scoreboard controllers. The external system provides

41 [key] = [value] Key names from the file(s) will be available as DataLink entries in your LiveText title pages. The value you enter beside the key

42 7. Click the Select (Arrow) button in LiveText’s tool panel. The “temperature” key is immediately replaced by “98°”, the value currently assigned

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43 the operation; naming the layer does not modify the object on the canvas.  Type a sentence in a new text object, then right-click between words

44 That’s all you need to do. Before each episode, have your production assistant take a few moments to update the guest.txt file content, and the h

45 b. Install drivers for your USB-Serial adapter on the host system. Drivers for the adapter are generally supplied on a Compact Disk (CD) packag

46 Figure 49 6. Close the Device Manager. Again, the port number you noted above is required to enable DataLink to recognize the external device.

47 Use the Com Port Number drop-down menu to choose an unused port number, and click the OK button. OK the Properties panel too, then close the Devi

48 4. Enter a name for the profile in the name field (left of the New button). (The Save button lights, to remind you to save changes before ending.

49 Hint: If you plan to use this feature, you (or someone helping you) will need a measure of familiarity with database addressing and queries. DataL

50 %author% -> "Voltaire" %author.1% -> "James Joyce" %author.2% -> "Herman Melville" 8. Click Save to record

51 Once you have a supported device successfully connected and configured, the drop-down key insertion menu in LiveText’s canvas will list valid key

52 This works as follows:  Assign a custom control key name and value that can be detected by either the TXT Linker or Database Linker, as discuss

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53 5 LIVE PRODUCTION AND FILE MANAGEMENT Title pages and projects created in LiveText can be utilized in a surprising number of ways. Going ‘direc

54 You can use Add Page or edit other title pages in the Canvas even when a LiveText page is displayed on the networked live broadcast system. The L

55 5.2 FILE EXPORTS LiveText pages exported as bitmap format files (.png, .avi) can be used creatively in the DDR and Picture modules of compatible

56 Choosing New clears the current project, and opens a new blank one. (LiveText’s custom file explorer is discussed in detail shortly, in Section 5.

57 Exported page types (other than .cg) can be added to the playlist of a DDR module (or Picture module) on selected live production systems, and app

58 The Title Page (.cgxml) file export type does not support motion pages – hence if you choose that alternative, LiveText will automatically prepare

59 Figure 59 This view can be personalized to suit your need or taste in several ways. Figure 60 A drop-down menu in the upper-right corner of t

60 NAVIGATION In standard fashion, double-click a folder or drive shown in the file list window to enter it, displaying its content. Figure 62 Abo

61 CUT, COPY, PASTE, DELETE Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete buttons are also located here. These operate on the currently selected items in the file lis

62 IMPORT TEXT If you drag an (ASCII) file onto the Canvas from the tabbed Filebin, the Import Text panel pops up. This panel offers numerous contro

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63 6 APPENDIX A – KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Show Keyboard Shortcuts F1 FONT Font Name (next/previous) F5 (Shift +) Font Size F6 (Shift +) Font Rotation

64 CLIPBOARD Select All Ctrl a Deselect All Ctrl d Cut Ctrl x Copy Ctrl c Paste Ctrl v Delete Del Redo Ctrl y Undo Ctrl z TEXT TOOL Select One ch

65 Select to the end Shift + End Delete entire trailing word Ctrl + Delete Select entire line Shift + Up/Down Arrow Kerning by letter Alt + L/R Arrow

66 Nudge Down 10 pixels Shift + Down Arrow Nudge Left 10 pixels Shift + Left Arrow Nudge Right 10 pixels Shift + Right Arrow ALIGNMENT Left Safety A

67 Align Vertical Center Alt Shift v PAGE Add a new page Ctrl Insert Delete Current Page Ctrl Shift Delete Clone Current Page Ctrl Shift Insert Move

68 Shadow Angle (raise/lower) Alt F7 (Shift +) Shadow Softness (raise/lower) Alt F8 (Shift +) EDGE Edge Type (up/down) Ctrl F5 (Shift +) Edge Size

69 Selection… Select All Ctrl + A Deselect All Ctrl + Shift + A First Item Home Last Item End Previous Item Left/Up Arrow Next Item Right/Down Arro

70 LIVE Send current page to live F9 Play current live motion page (toggles play and pause) F10 Pause current live motion page F11 Stop current live

71 7 APPENDIX B – KEY LIST BY DEVICE This section lists the actual key names that are available for use with DataLink for the different brands of ex

72 %DakHomeScore% - Home Team Score %DakGuestScore% - Guest Team Score %DakHomeFouls% - Home Team Fouls %DakGuestFouls% - Guest Team Foul

1 1 INTRODUCTION Installed on a ‘satellite’ workstation (or laptop), LiveText greatly extends the live production environment, providing a new lev

73 %DakHomeTOFull% - Home Time Outs Left – Full %DakHomeTOPart% - Home Time Outs Left – Partial %DakHomeTOTotal% - Home Time Outs Left – Total

74 %DakMin% - Minutes (from Clock Time) %DakSec% - Seconds (from Clock Time) %DakTen% - Tenths (secs/10 from Clock Time) 7.1.5 SOCCER %D

75 %DakGuestScore% - Guest Team Score %DakHomeTOFull% - Home Time Outs Left – Full %DakHomeTOTotal% - Home Time Outs Left – Total %DakGuestTOF

76 %CGDakInningText% - Current inning (text) %CGDakInningDescription% - Inning Description (text) %CGDakHomeAtBat% - Home At -bat indicator

77 %CGDakInningLabel6% %CGDakInningLabel7% %CGDakInningLabel8% %CGDakInningLabel9% %CGDakInningLabel10% %CGDakInningLabel11% %CGDakInningLabel12% %CG

78 %CGDakGuestInningScore6% %CGDakGuestInningScore7% %CGDakGuestInningScore8% %CGDakGuestInningScore9% %CGDakGuestInningScore10% %CGDakGuestInningSco

79 %CGDakHomeScore% - Home Team Score %CGDakGuestScore% - Guest Team Score %CGDakHomeFouls% - Home Team Fouls %CGDakGuestFouls% -

80 %CGDakDown% - Current down %CGDakToGo% - Yards to go %CGDakHomePossess% - Possession indicator (0 or 1). %CGDakGuestPossess% -

81 %CGDakGuestPenalty1_PenaltyTime% - Guest Penalty, time left %CGDakHomePenalty2_PlayerNum% - Home Penalty, player number %CGDakHomePenalty2_Pen

82 %CGDakHhr% - Hours (from Clock Time) %CGDakMin% - Minutes (from Clock Time) %CGDakSec% - Seconds (from Clock Time) %CGDakTen%

83 %CGDakGuestGameScore4% - Guest Score, Fourth Game %CGDakMin% - Minutes (from Clock Time) %CGDakSec% - Seconds (from Clock Time) %CG

84 7.5 TRANSLUX FAIRPLAY 7.5.1 FOOTBALL %TLFPClock% - Game Clock Time – “MM:SS.T” %TLFPQuarter% - Current quarter %TLFPHomeScore% - Home

85 %WWShotClock% - Shot Clock Time %WWMin% - Minutes (from Clock Time) %WWSec% - Seconds (from Clock Time) %WWTen% - Tenths (secs/1

87 8 APPENDIX C – NETWORKING NOTES Clearly, a reliable and competent network connection must exist for your LiveText workstation’s output to be di

88 displays a summary when finished. Bottom line, if you can’t ping your target, your connection has problems (the problem might be as simple as a ba

89  Ping will go to work, and in a moment or two begin reporting results. A ping failure (indicating a network problem) will look like Figure 68.

91 9 INDEX A ASCII Text File, 39, 40 C Clocks, 52 Color Picker, 22, 28 Colors ColorPicker, 22, 28 COM port, 46 Control Keys, 51 Cut, Copy, Paste, De

92 R RSS, 48 S Scoreboard Linker, 38, 40 Key Definitions, 50 Scoreboard Linker, 50 Shadows, 12, 29, 67, 68 Stand-in images, 62 Stop, 54 T Tags, 34 Te