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Templates and the Library, faster

Shortcuts in the overlay template editor and the Library window, and the logo buttons in the detail panel, each linked to the page that owns it.

In the template editor

  • Scroll to resize. Select an item, then scroll anywhere over the canvas. Text grows or shrinks by 2 pixels a notch and images by 0.05 of their scale. The wheel acts on the selected item, not whatever is under the pointer.
  • Alt-middle-drag to resize the item under the pointer. Drag right to grow it and left to shrink it.
  • Nudge with the arrow keys. The selected item moves one pixel, or ten with Shift held. Click the canvas first so it has focus.
  • Enter never closes the editor. It applies the box you are in and moves to the next one.
  • Right-click an item for Remove Item.
  • Design against a real frame. Background Shot… loads a frame from one of your shots and fills every field item with that shot's values. Clear puts the placeholders back, which also brings back a field item that the shot left empty.
  • Open the editor on one template from the reel. Right-click its stretch of the template band and choose Edit “Lower Third”…, or right-click a title card and choose Edit “Lower Third” Template…. Each shows the template's own name.

See Build an overlay template.

In the Library window

  • Esc closes it, and it reopens on the view you left.
  • Right-click a value or a logo for Selects (4) and Reels (2) submenus, with their counts, listing everything that uses it, or a shot selects file in Files for the reels built from it. Choose one and it opens as a tab behind the Library, which stays open.
  • Scan Folder… registers every shot selects file and reel under a folder at once.
  • Drag shots from the Shots view straight onto a reel. It is the same picker as the reel's, with the same filter.
  • Refresh a reel's picker after marking shots in another tab: those shots appear once you choose the picker's refresh button.
  • In the Logos view, double-click a row's Stands for cell to assign the logo to a value, or its Categories cell to sort it.

See The Library window.

Logos from the detail panel

  • The logo button beside Company opens the logo picker for that value.
  • The plus button in the picker, "Add an image from disk to the logo pool", adds an image and chooses it at once.
  • The search button in the picker searches the web for that value's logo in your browser.

See Logos.