• Wirecast™ Introduction
• Good presentations
• Usage Patterns
• Hardware
• Media Capabilities
• Titling Capabilities
•   Overview
•   Adding Titles to Shots
•   Modifying Titles
•   Choosing a Template
•   Where to put Titles
•   Creating New Templates
• Logo Capabilities
• Broadcasting
• Editing Encoder Presets
• Desktop Presenter
• Media Management
• Menus
• Preferences
• Main Window
• Shot Editing
• Shot Element Panels
• Edit: Scene
• Edit: Title
• Edit: Media
• Edit: Effects
• Edit: Playback
• Edit: Motion
• Edit: Filter
• Edit: Chroma Key
• Acknowledgments

Where to put Titles

The previous sections of this chapter describe how to edit a title for a shot.

The example showed putting a title "on top of" an existing shot.

However, as our Tutorial shows, you can also create a shot which has only title data.

This is very useful if you want to overlay the same title over the top of several shots, or if you want to modify the title independent of which shot you are choosing.

The choice is up to you

This means you have an artistic choice.

You must decide for your broadcast if you want your titles to be tied directly to specific shots or if you want them to be independent.

Wirecast seamlessly supports using both methods - and even both methods at the same time.

Example: Seminar Title

You may wish to broadcast a seminar and have the title of the seminar appear and disappear from time to time. But you have several other shots (perhaps cameras) you are switching between.

In this case, you'd probably create a shot which has only a Title in it. You could move this title to the Foreground layer (see Layers for more details on layers and moving shots between layers).

In this configuration, you can bring the title in and out of your broadcast by selecting it in the Title Layer. And this is all independent of the other shots you may have created and are in use.

Example: Interviewee Title

If you are broadcasting an interview, a shot which contains the camera for the Interviewee may have a title in it.

In this case, when you cut to the shot of just the interviewee, the title will appear. When you cut to the person asking the questions, the title will not appear because it is a different Wirecast shot.

NOTE: Since you can turn visibility of a title on and off inside the shot editor, you can still turn the title on and off on the shot. To do this, make the shot live, then open the shot editor. Turn the Title checkbox on, press Go (or command-G). Turn the Title checkbox off, press Go.