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Titles

Creating New Templates

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the title in this separate layer, it keeps it independent of the all other shots you have

created.

Interview Title

If you are broadcasting an interview, the shot which contains the camera for the

interviewee may have a title in it. In this case, when you cut to the shot of the

interviewee, the title appears. When you cut to the person asking the questions, the

title does not appear because it is a different Wirecast shot.

Note: Since you can turn visibility of a title on and off inside the Shot Editor, you can

still turn the title on and off in the shot. To turn it off, make the shot live, then open the

Shot Editor. Click the shot icon and then click Go (or press Command+G). To turn it

back on, click the shot icon again and click Go.

Creating New Templates

The templates that Wirecast uses are not editable within Wirecast. However, you can

create new templates yourself using any graphics creation tool and an XML editor.

Example

Download the example custom templates from Telestream at:

http://www.telestream.net/downloads/Wirecast/titles/Wirecast_User_Titles.zip.

Decompress this file and copy the XML and PNG files to:

~/Library/Preferences/Vara Software/Wirecast_User_Titles.

The next time you launch Wirecast, the user titles will be available. Any media used by

these templates must exist in the same template folder. For example, if

user_scoreboard.png is used in one of the example templates, it must be located in the

Wirecast_User_Titles directory.

Other Media

Any media used by these templates must exist in the same template folder. For

example, if user_scoreboard.png is used in one of the example templates, it must be

located in the Wirecast_User_Titles directory.

Editing XML Files

There is an XML file called description.xml which describes all of your titles. Edit it to

add, create, or delete titles. Read the header of the XML file for a list of rules and

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