Chyron LIVE
LIVE - User Manual

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LIVE allows you to add graphics, images and clips to your live video content as you produce your broadcast. You can prepare and organize your assets for specific productions by creating playlists. You may want to place all of the content for a certain production into one playlist. Or you may want to organize your content into multiple playlists. For example, you might have one with Home Team graphics, one with Away Team graphics and one withΒ 

You can work with assets in the Browser view:

  • see assets by type, on dedicated tabs
  • search assets
  • sort assets
  • preview assets
  • create Playlists
  • add assets to any Playlist

1.0 - Access the Browser view:

Click the Browser button on the right of the interface. The Browser view appears.

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1.2 - View or locate assets by type:

Click one of the tabs at the top of the Browser pane to select assets such as:.

  • Images
  • Clips
  • Playlists
  • Recently created Replays

1.3 - Deleting an Asset

To delete any of the assets from Scenes, Images, Clips, Playlist, or Replay, click the red trash bin icon.

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1.4 - Search for items in the Browser:

Do one of these:

  • Enter all or part of the asset’s name in the Search bar.
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  1. Click the Search icon and then enter all or part of an asset name in the Search field to locate an asset.
  2. Click the Time icon to order the asset list by date and time. Click it again to reverse the order.
  3. Click the Alphabetize icon to order the list alphabetically, by file name. Click it again to reverse the order.

1.5 - Specify a list or thumbnail view:

Click the List or Thumbnails icon at the top, right of the Browser.

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1.6 - Create a new Playlist:

Click the + button at the top left of the interface.

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A dialog appears. Enter the name of your new Playlist and then click OK.

This Playlist is now accessible from its tab, at the top of the Playlist window. If you want to locate it after closing it, you can find it on the Playlist tab of the Browser.

1.7 - Add items to the playlist:

Do one of these:

  1. Click to drag and drop the item from the browser to the playlist.
  2. Click the item in the Browser to preview it and see its metadata. Then, from the bottom right of the metadata panel, click the Add to Playlist button.Β 
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1.8 - Modify replaceable text in a graphic in your playlist:

Graphics that have a blue carat at the left of their thumbnail in the playlist have one or more fields that allow you to enter your own text.Β 

  1. Click the carat to open a text entry dialog.
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A dialog appears. Enter text in the dialog to fulfill the replaceable fields in the graphic.

TIP: Graphics are created in the Chyron PRIME Designer interface. To reveal replaceable fields in Chyron LIVE, these fields must be designated as replaceable within PRIME Designer. For more information, refer to the PRIME User’s Guide or to the PRIME courses on Chyron Academy at https://chyron.com/resources/chyron-academy/ο»Ώ