LiveText 2.1, DataLink 3.0 From NewTek
LiveText™ 2 remote titling software for the TriCaster™ family of products, allows you to add a dedicated title station to your live production. LiveText 2 provides increased workflow support with the ability to send HD titles and graphics to any TriCaster portable live production system.
In fast-paced live productions, it helps to share the workload with others - one person switching sources while another focuses on titles. TriCaster, a market leader for its ease of use, makes live production even more enjoyable with LiveText 2.
LiveText 2 runs independently on your laptop or computer, communicating directly with TriCaster, and provides scrolls, crawls, title pages and lower thirds to your live production or live web stream. LiveText 2 with integrated DataLink™ allows you to pre-produce graphics and titles off-site, or on the way to the location, and delivers real-time display of scores, times, prices and other rapidly-changing information, providing instant updates to TriCaster.
While TriCaster excels at one-person operation, many producers want to involve as many hands as possible. With the addition of LiveText 2 to your live production, a separate graphics operator can ensure the correct title is ready for display at all times, and title updates can be incorporated on the fly. Now, managing last-minute speaker changes is easy, and monitoring real-time data makes updating easy.
LiveText Benefits
- Network-style, dedicated HD graphics operation
- Send HD titles and graphics to any TriCaster portable live production system
- DataLink application (details below) integrated for real-time display of scores, times, prices, or any rapidly changing data
- LiveTime™ delivers embedded real-time clock and date displays in the title pages
- Easy management of title changes for speakers and events
- Improves production quality and accuracy
- Allows pre-production of titles on a Windows® laptop
- Lets you expand your team with on-air titles from a remote station
- Provides easy creation of still, scroll and crawl pages
- Save one page or the entire project for total flexibility
- Wide variety of text options using any installed TrueType font
- Pages saved as 32-bit images for transparency with overlays
- Instantly save or recall text styles
- Allows creation of graphic objects (boxes, circles, splines)
- Provides powerful vector-based drawing tools for custom graphics
New in LiveText 2.1, DataLink 3.0
A major update to DataLink functionality, the 3.0 application brings added convenience and important new tools, such as the DataLink Profile Manager. Now, you have even more valuable and creative possibilities for managing files, and there’s no need to edit manually.
New in LiveText 2.1, DataLink 3.0
A major update to DataLink functionality, the 3.0 application brings added convenience and important new tools, such as the DataLink Profile Manager. Now, you have even more valuable and creative possibilities for managing files, and there’s no need to edit manually.
DataLink Profile Manager benefits include the ability to:
- Edit and manage INI files to configure DataLink sources, automatically
- Store and recall an unlimited number of custom "data profiles," quickly
- Define a database, network source (RSS feed), text file, or serial-connected scoreboard as the data source, or refer to data from several sources, simultaneously
- Adapt to different venues, sports or other set-ups, quickly (activate the desired custom data profile and re-launch LiveText, using the convenient button in the DataLink Profile Manager)
Other benefits include an expanded list of compatible devices, with a simplified configuration; settings and key names automatically configured for supported hardware, reducing set-up time and transcription errors; and a more user-friendly database.
LiveText 2.1 is available as a free download to registered LiveText 2 owners: Download Now
Minimum System Specifications:
- CPU supporting the SSE2 instruction set (typically an Intel® Core2® or better)
- Graphics display card (PCI-E recommended) with Microsoft® DirectX® 9 (or better) compatibility
- Monitor, capable of displaying a minimum resolution of 1280x800 pixels
- 2GB RAM (4GB or more preferred)
- Gigabit network recommended for network transmission to supported live systems (TriCaster)
LiveText Upgrade
The LiveText 2.1 update includes DataLinkT 3.0, which provides added convenience and important new tools, such as the DataLink Profile Manager, allowing users to:
- Edit and manage INI files to configure DataLink sources, automatically
- Store and recall an unlimited number of custom " data profiles," quickly
- Define a database, network source (RSS feed), text file, or serial-connected scoreboard as the data source, or refer to data from several sources, simultaneously
- Adapt to different venues, sports or other set-ups, quickly (activate the desired custom data profile and re-launch LiveText, using the convenient button in the DataLink Profile Manager)
Other benefits include an expanded list of compatible devices, with a simplified configuration; settings and key names automatically configured
for supported hardware, reducing set-up time and transcription errors; and a more user-friendly database.
LiveText 2.1 is available as a free download to registered owners of LiveText 2 at http://reg.newtek.com/
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