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Starting, rolls, crawls with and without backgrounds, clocks and timers

To start Lyric software on the Duet from the desktop, double click the Lyric icon. Whenthe application starts up, your canvas is in the center of the screen, the Propertieswindow is on the right side, and the scene graph window is on the left. The browser,underneath the scene graph, provides quick access to messages and fonts. The

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Canvas is the 3 dimensional space in which all composition and animation takes place.The title bar has the frame buffer status and page number.

FBO Msg: 00009950

FB1 Msg: 00009950

In the this example,Frame buffers 0, 1 and 2 havemessage 9950.

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If you need a new canvas for preparing a roll or crawl, hit File, New, and Canvas. Youcan also hit the erase button on the keyboard, right side.

Composing a Roll OR Crawl

Open a blank canvas. Click the Roll 1=11 (or Crawl)button is to the immediate right of Roll button on toolbar.

button. The Crawl

A roll window opens on the Canvas; the roll window's right side is a scroll bar. Verifythat the timeline Object pull-down menu (second item down from the top of theAnimation Control dialog box) changes to 2D Roll. If not, open the pull-down and select2D Roll.

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b Choose a font from the Browser window's list of icons, then hit theLoad from Database button. You can also double click the font's icon.

Enter your text. Text will word-wrap. Adjust the window to the size you like. Considerhow many lines of text you wish to be visible as they move up the screen; adjust theheight of the window accordingly. Don't make the window so large that all of the text isvisible at once. You can even pull the right side over so that your text does not hit alower-right bug!

**When opening a crawl window, adjust its width with consideration of the Safe Titlearea. This will determine how much of the text is visible and how much of the screen'swidth it occupies. The Safe Title area serves as a guide for placing crawls in thetraditional lower-third position.

When you're done typing, scroll down until the last line of text moved up and out of theroll window. This way, your roll will start Offscreen. You can also use the insert row keyon the keyboard.

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***When the text of a Crawl is complete, press the space bar a few times to move thetext toward and past the right edge of the crawl window, making sure the text is out ofthe window. This way, your crawl will start Off screen. You can also use the insertcharacter key on the keyboard.

Hit Xfer and the roll or crawl will be sent to the video output and it will begin. If an oldersoftware version is loaded on your machine, you may get a prompt about the animationbeing ready. Hit Okay and the roll or crawl will be sent to the video output and it willbegin.

To change the speed of a roll or crawl, go to the properties window and hit the animationtab. You can enter a speed (1-10). Choose the Speed control button and enter a value.Note that Lyric updates the Rate and Duration edit boxes. Make sure to hit apply aftermaking any changes.

Save rolls and crawls by putting an empty page number in the alphanumeric keypad andhitting record. Your font and it's attributes, as well as the text, will save with the page.

Roll or Crawl with Background

Call up a blank crawl page and hit the set default background button on the toolbar.

Set Default

Background This is so you can see what the background will look like underColor button yOur fext. This background color is ONLY on the Duet canvas and

not on air. Next, hit the background button.

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You'll get a pull down menu. Choose Solid/Ramp color and youTget the screen on the next page.

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You can choose a solid color from the palette area. The arrows will give you even moreoptions. Click the apply and then the OK buttons to apply the color to your crawlwindow. The color will only be in the crawl window, so make the window the correct sizefor the application.

The ramp/gradient section of the dialog box contains a color square surrounded by fourcolor anchors. The color assigned to each color anchor influences the color ramp byaffecting only the section of the square near the anchor. To change the color of ananchor, you must be in ramp mode. Simply move the mouse cursor to the anchor andclick the left mouse button. This will assign the current Solid Color selected to theanchor and automatically update the color ramp. Right click an anchor and choose "tie tobuddy" to tie anchors together. Having the top two anchors as one color and the bottomtwo as another will make a graduated background.

When you save your roll or crawl, the background information will be saved to the pageas well.

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Type-on/Slow Reveal

Activate by selecting Type On from the Tools menu or by pressing the Type On' buttonon the Lyric toolbar.

Locate the Properties menu and open the Animation page. Start with an empty canvasand make sure the Timeline is 00:00:00. Choose a font style, face and edge color fromthe pull-down menu.

Enter your text. Then hit "Go to beginning" button on the animation control bar. Hit Xferto send animation to the video output. On older software versions, you may have to hitPlay.

Extra: You can experiment with the Soft and Random checkboxes. Checking Softcauses each individual character to fade in slowly. Check Random if you wish thecharacters to appear randomly, as opposed to appearing in left-to-right order.

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Clocks

Locate the clock button on the Lyric toolbar, or use the pull-down menu. The Propertiesmenu automatically switches to the Clock/Timer setup tab and a Clock window appearson the Canvas.

Next, locate the specify appearance area, and within it, the format edit box. Pull downthe list of formats and select how you'd like your clock to look. Typing a +3 before theformat will add 3 hours to the internal computer clock, making the clock you createcorrect for west-coast time. Use the font and 2D Font FX tabs to select any font andedge effects you wish. Next, click the Set Font button. Locate the Operate clock/timerarea and pull down the action menu. Then hit Xfer and your clock will start and be sent

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to air. In some versions, the clock may auto begin when transferred. If not, hit the togglestart button and the clock will begin.

Clocks can be difficult to erase. The easiest way to accomplish this is to hit the erase allicon on the toolbar.

Timer

Click the Timer button on the Lyric toolbar, or use the pull-down menu and select Timer.The Clock/timer setup tab and timer window appears on the Canvas.

In the Type menu, select timer up or timer down.Enter a Reset time; this is the time value to which the timer returns when you select'reset' in the Action drop-down menu.Set a font and any font effects you desire.Hit Xfer to send the timer to air. Toggle start will start your timer rolling.

Recording

Clocks and timers can be recorded and saved for later use by choosing the save buttonon the clock page. You will be asked for a page number.

Rebooting of the Duet should only be done by an engineer.

Can't See It???

If you can not tell if your work is going to air, hit the LE button on the Duet toolbar tosend it to the video output. This should allow you to see your work (crawl, roll, clock,timer) on the monitor.

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