Overview
Chyron LIVE provides several templates.
Select or customize a template
- Select any default template, or create a custom scene.
- 2 Box DVE (optional text)
- 3 Box DVE
- 4 Box DVE
- Bug
- Crawl (optional image)
- Full-screen
- Lower third (one or two lines, optional image)
- OTS
- Picture-in-picture
- Replay wipe
- Scoreboard with clock
- a custom set-up scene
- Customize replaceable variables:
- primary and secondary colors
- text color
- pre-defined station logos/images
- sponsors
- event
- team(s)
- Move the scene to a playlist.
Template Types
Scoreboard with a clock
Two template variants are provided (Sports_Scoreboard_Count_Up, Sports_Scoreboard_Count_Down) allowing for two different clock behavior (count up or count down). These templates have a persistent clock, that continues running even when the scene is not live on air.
They are animated using transitions and the score is easily updatable using text replaceables.
The exact replaceables (editable variables) available are:
- Home Team Score (text field)
- Away Team Score (text field)
- Quarters/Periods (text field)
- Start (button)
- Stop (button)
- Start time value (text field)
- Reset (button)
Crawl
Very simple Text crawl to display textual information at the bottom of the screen.
The scene animates off after one pass.
The only replaceable for this scene is:
- Crawl Text (text field)
Crawl with image
Very similar to the previous Crawl template but with an interchangeable image on the bottom left corner. The Text crawl disappears beneath the image. The scene animates off after one pass.
The exact replaceable for this scene are:
- Image (Image selector)
- Crawl Text (text field)
Bug
A bug graphic is of course part of the template pack. In fact there are even 4 variants of the bug graphic (BugTL, BugTR, Bug_BL, Bug_BR) in order to populate each quadrant of the screen (respectively Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Right). All 4 variants are exactly the same - except for the bug position.
Note they can be combined (from 2 to all 4 of them) to fill as many quadrants as desired.
The repleaceables are:
- Predefined Station bug button (set with the Setup scene),
- Predefined Sponsor bug button (set with the Setup scene)
- Predefined Event bug button (set with the Setup scene),
- Predefined Live bug button (set with the Setup scene)
- Locator text (text field)
- Manual Image (Image selector)
Picture in picture
Typical picture in picture scene (Pict in Pict) with a left box or right box (or both) above a full screen video source.
The box can be complemented with a short text (example: Team Name). The scene replaceables include:
- Fullscreen video input for the background (number),
- Left box video input (number)
- Checkbox to display Left box title (text field and checkbox)
- Right box video input (number)
- Checkbox to display Right box title (text field and checkbox)
Lower-third one line or two lines
An all times classic, the (infamous) Lower Third is available with simple options for either one or two lines of text and a nice transition between one and two lines when text gets added. The replaceables include:
- Top line text (text field)
- Bottom line text (text field)
- Center text (checkbox)
- Justify text (checkbox)
Lower-third one line or two lines with image
Very similar to the previous one, with a replaceable image on top.
Replaceables include:
- Top line text (text field)
- Bottom line text (text field)
- Center text (checkbox)
- Justify text (checkbox)
- Image (image selector)
2-Box DVE
A very standard 2 box DVE enabling the routing of two sources onto the left and right box of the scene.
Some options to push in or pull out the left or right video.
Replaceables include:
- Left video source (source number)
- Right video source (source number)
Custom 2-Box DVE with text
Very similar to the standard 2 Box DVE above, except this ones comes with a text box tat appears under the right video.
3-Box DVE
Lets you pick 3 video sources and route them to the left, center and right boxes.
4-Box DVE
Allows users to pick 4 video sources and route them to the top left, top right, bottom left and bottom right boxes.
Replay wipe
A simple full screen graphic with a textured animated clip playing in the background and a replaceable text (or image) customizable in the foreground. Animates in and out. The colors are set with the setup scene pre-production but can be overridden using the scene replaceables that include:
- Text (text field)
- Image (Image selector)
- Custom text color (hex value)
- Custom background color (hex value)
OTS
A standard over the shoulder graphic with some customization options using replaceables:
- Large image (image selector)
- Small image (image selector)
- Just Text (checkbox)
- Left position (checkbox)
- Right position (Checkbox)
Full Screen
Use a setup scene
All of the templates presented in the previous section can be used as is with the default colors and branding elements. A setup scene is also available in order to customize the look and branding of the full template pack. The setup scene is used to set global replaceable variables that are use by every scene in the pack. It means that setup the replaceable values within the setup scene will automatically update the look of all the other scenes based on those values.
Customization options include:
- primary and secondary colors
- text color
- setting pre-defined logos/images for the station
- sponsors
- event
- team(s)
Using the setup scene is very simple. It is usually recommended to do it pre-production an well in advance in order to ensure the proper look is set across the board.
To set the global replaceable variables, simply move the setup scene to a playlist and edit its replaceables from the takelist module. Once the values set, simply save them in their respective field - all templates should now be using those new settings.
| Note: The setup scene can be loaded in a graphic preview channel in order to confirm the replaceable values are properly set and visible. |
