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Hotkeys and shortcuts

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LiveU Studio allows you to streamline your live production by creating scenes or macros that control multiple inputs across different layers with a single hotkey. Here’s how to do it:

1. Setting Up a Scene or Macro

  • Configure Layers: Arrange your inputs on different layers.
  • Assign a Hotkey: Go to the hotkey settings, and create a hotkey to trigger these inputs.

2. Benefits of Hotkeys

  • Quick Setup: Manage all your inputs with one button press.
  • Save and Reuse: Save your configuration, including input positions, volumes, and template settings, for future sessions.

3. Assigning Transitions to Hotkeys

  • Transitions: Assign a transition, even graphic transitions, to a hotkey. This allows you to execute a transition and switch inputs simultaneously.

4. Using Hotkeys During Live Production

Simply press the assigned hotkey to activate your pre-configured inputs and transitions across multiple layers. This enhances efficiency and ensures a seamless live broadcast.

 

 

1. Setting Up a Scene or Macro

  • Go to a control room Production Studio (1).
  • Add your inputs (2), set up and enable them you want.
  • Click on "Hotkeys" to open the hotkey editor (3)
    • There are 4 default transition shortcut keys, F1 to F4, which you can change by following this tutorial.
  • Click on "Add" (4). 
    • Your first hotkeys have been created! By clicking on 0 you will trigger this scene.

Taking shortcut key configuration a step further
  • If needed, adjust each line by clicking on:
    • Blank: When the hotkey is activated, the line will be emptied (every input in the line will be hidden).
    • Inherit: When the hotkey is activated, the line settings are ignored (e.g. if an input is shown it will stay visible but if there's nothing, no change will occur).
  • You can also set the parameters that will be saved for each type of input by clicking on the buttons below (available depending on the input type):
    • Position: Save the current position settings.
    • Audio: Save the current audio settings.
    • Content: Save the current content.
    • Show name: Save the current "Show name" settings for a specific input.
      • Lower thirds inputs:
        • Content (=save the current lower thirds messages and size).
        • Style (=save the current lower thirds theme).
      • Template inputs:
        • Template (=Save the current template settings [including the current selected inputs]).
  • Please note that the last line dedicated to audio allows you to enable the audio feedback of an input without displaying it in the program (audio only).

Select HOW you want to apply this hotkey

  1. Use auto-apply: the scene will be applied in the preview and program directly using a cut transition.
  2. Only in preview first -> manual transition later to apply in PGM.
  3. Directly in PGM using a predefined transition.

THEN YOU CAN ADD MORE HOTKEYS TO SWITCH FROM

  • Edit and prepare each input of the display for the new hotkey in the Production (or directly from the Hotkeys menu).
  • Add one more hotkey section ("+ Add" button in the hotkey editor) (5).
    • If needed, adjust each input/line settings.

Please note that you can drag & drop your hotkeys in the list at the left side.

DISPLAY A HOTKEY

Please note that the hotkeys function is linked to the type of keyboard used (AZERTY/QWERTY), so be careful not to have an incompatibility problem in the shortcuts.

  • Close the hotkey editor.
  • Then you have 2 buttons in your control room corresponding to hotkey 0 and 1.
  • Simply click on the button corresponding to the macro of input you wish to display in your live.
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Congratulations! Now you know how to use the LiveU Studio hotkeys!

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