Glossary

Term	Meaning	Not	Read more
Accepted	the state of a feedback item that was taken up; shown on the public list	Planned, Building	Feedback
Admit	put a guest waiting in the Green Room into their guest slot; on air only with a Take	Accept, Let in	Bring a guest on
Already in	Spelvin’s answer when the same problem or idea was sent before: your report joins it; also that report’s state	Duplicate	Feedback
Audition	the bus for what you play by hand to check it, for your headphones only		Private listening
Auto Live	a mode in which a click on a shot sends it to the program at once, without the preview		Take and cut
Auto Out	a shot that leaves the program by itself after a set time, such as a lower third; its countdown runs in the shot’s tab		Layers, shots and sources
Before Processing	a bus that hears the sources as they come, without their steps and their delay, for the room’s PA and in-ears: Hears the Sources Before Processing in the bus’s menu	Dry, Monitor bus, Pre-fader	Processing
Beta tester	a person in a company that joined during the beta; earns points with feedback	Contributor, Participant	Feedback
Billing	the page with the company’s plan, billing details, payments and invoices; also the role that sees it, next to another role or alone for a bookkeeper		Plans and billing
Billing details	who the invoices are made out to: business or private person, name, address, VAT number		Set the billing details
Brings Along	the shots on other layers, one per layer, that a shot can bring with it when you press it with them: its tab, ⌥-click, ⌥⌘Return, a held Stream Deck key	Linked shots, Along shots, Companion shots	Layers, shots and sources
Bus	a mix of sources that plays to one or more output devices: Program, Preview, Audition, or your own	Feed	Buses
Clean Voice	Live Producer’s own step that takes noise away from around a voice, Light or Strong, with Room Tone and Quiet Between Words	De-noise, Noise gate, AI cleanup	Clean Voice
Clear	the first tile of every layer: nothing on that layer		Layers, shots and sources
Close Script	the showrunner makes the script read-only for everyone, after a last publish; Reopen Script undoes it	Lock, Freeze, Finish	Close the script
Close Show	File › Close Show (⇧⌘W), or closing the main window: the show closes and the Show Manager comes back; asks first while the show is live	Close Project	Shows
Connected AI	your own AI app (Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor) connected to your account or to the Studio Mac, working as you with what you allowed; also the Account card and the Studio’s settings page that list them, each with Revoke	Integration, Connector, API access, MCP (as a name)	Connected AI
Console	how the Studio is drawn: a studio vision mixer, with keys that light green in preview and red when live, layer names on small displays and the T-bar		Main window
Contributor	someone who writes the sections of a show assigned to them on the platform, and brings their files		People and roles
Declined	the state of a feedback item not taken up, with a one-line reason mailed to who sent it	Won’t fix, Closed	Feedback
Dissolve	the transition that blends the old picture into the new one	Mix	Transitions
Done	the state of a feedback item fixed or built, with the version it came in	Closed	Feedback
Editor seat	an admin or a showrunner other than the company’s owner: the members Team and Business count, 3 and 10 included; contributors, guests and Billing are free	Seat, user, licence	Plans and billing
Element	one source placed in a shot, with its own position, size, look and effects	Layer item	Editing canvas
Fade to Black (FTB)	the whole program and its sound to black and back, never saved in the show		Fade to black
Feedback	a problem or an idea sent from the Studio’s Help menu or the web’s rail, filed by Spelvin; also the public list of what was taken up	Issues, Tickets, Support requests, Bug tracker	Feedback
Files	the company’s files on the platform, in versions, attached to what a show needs	Resources, Web files, Media	Files
Graphic	an HTML page used as a lower third or another overlay; what you fill in are its Fields	Template, HTML template, Lower-third page	Graphics
Green Room	where a remote guest waits until the producer admits them; they hear the show, nothing of them reaches it	Lobby, Waiting room, Backstage	Remote guests
Guest Link	the private address one remote guest opens to join; Send Invite mails it, Revoke Link ends it	Invite link, Join link	Invite a guest
Guest Screen	a remote guest’s shared screen, a source of their slot (Guest 2 Screen)	Presentation, Screencast	Show a guest’s screen
Guest slot	a numbered source for one remote guest (Guest 1, Guest 2), showing a slate until they are admitted	Guest placeholder, Seat	Remote guests
Guests bus	what remote guests hear: everything on the program minus every guest	Return, IFB	Buses
Hold to Compare	held in a step’s window, the source is heard without that step; never changes the show	Bypass, A/B	Step windows
Idea	feedback asking for something new	Feature request, Suggestion, Wish	Feedback
Invoice email	the address the company’s invoices go to, such as a bookkeeper’s		Set the billing details
ISO recording	each camera recorded on its own, at its full rate		Recording
Layer	a row of shots, at most one of them on the program; the first layer is in front	Strip	Layers, shots and sources
Layer setup	a ready set of layers, shots and sources a show starts from		Layer setups
Live (a show)	something on the program, the program recording or the cameras’ recordings running, or a stream on air; closing, replacing or quitting a live show asks first, then stops its streams and finishes its recordings		Shows
Live Producer Guest	the iPhone and iPad app: join a show as a guest, or use the phone as a camera in the room		Live Producer Guest
Matte wipe	a transition shaped by an image or animation: black reveals the new picture		Transitions
Me Too	joining a feedback item someone else sent, with new detail or without	Upvote, Vote, +1	Send feedback
Multiview	program, preview and sources side by side, for watching only		Multiview
New	the state of a feedback item filed but not yet reviewed; not on the public list	Open, Triage	Feedback
Notice	a short message at the top of the web pages, for everyone or a group, closed once for good	Banner, Announcement	Mail and notices
On liveproducer.ai	the Show Manager’s tab with the web shows of your companies, the account and server signed in to, and New Show from Web Show…	On the Platform	Show Manager
Operator	the person running the Studio during the show	Director	Components
Part	one step of a section: a speaker, a video, a poll	Segment	Script structure
Picture	the inspector’s row saying what a source sends now: a camera’s size and the frames of the last second, live	Frame rate, FPS counter, Frames received	Cameras, NDI and DeckLink
Plan	what the company has on the platform: its editor seats, shows, storage and Spelvin’s actions; Solo (free), Team or Business		Plans and billing
Points	what a beta tester earns for feedback taken up: a problem 3, an idea 2, new detail 1	Score, Karma	Feedback
Preset (processing)	a chain of steps to start a source from (Start From: Lav Mic, Handheld Mic, Room Mic, Remote Guest, your own), or a step’s own saved settings	Template, Profile	Start a source from a preset
Preview	what the next Take sends to the program; where you edit shots		Layers, shots and sources
Problem	feedback that something does not work	Bug, Issue, Incident	Feedback
Processing	the steps a source’s sound goes through, top to bottom, before the buses; the column in Audio Routing	Effects, FX, Inserts, Plug-ins, Chain	Processing
Product updates, News and offers	the two kinds of mail sent only after you said yes; service and status mail always comes	Newsletter, Marketing	Mail and notices
Program	what is on air: the picture and sound that go to the recording, the stream and the call		Layers, shots and sources
Prompter	the script for the presenter, on a tablet or screen, following the show	Prompter page	Prompter
Published version	a numbered state of a web show that the Studio receives		Published versions
Pull	bring a published version of a web show’s script into the open show, by hand	Fetch, Link to web show	Pull a script
Receiving	a source’s status while pictures come in; Not receiving when a camera stopped sending, Camera disconnected when it was unplugged, Camera not connected when the show names a camera this Mac does not have	Running, Connected, Online	Cameras, NDI and DeckLink
Remote guest	a person in the show from elsewhere, joining with a Guest Link	Caller, Participant, Attendee	Remote guests
Restart Camera	set a camera’s capture up again when it sends nothing: Switcher › Restart Selected Camera, the tile’s menu or the inspector; the Studio does it by itself after five silent seconds	Reconnect, Reset camera	Cameras, NDI and DeckLink
Room Reduction	the step that takes a big room’s echo out of a voice, from how long the room rings (Listen to the Room)	Dereverb	Room Reduction
Room Tone	the room’s own sound while nobody speaks, learned in 5 s by Learn Room Tone in Clean Voice	Noise print	Clean Voice
Run of Show	the script laid out in time, read-only: a view on the web, a strip in the Studio; the word event and sports crews use for a show’s timed list, here drawn from the script	Timeline (its name before), Rundown (as a view)	Script window
Script	the show’s sections, parts and words, written on the platform and shown in the Studio’s Script window	Rundown, Run of Show (that is the list drawn from it), the plan	Script structure
Script tag	what the script asks for at a word: a shot, a lower third, a graphic, a sound or an interaction; guidance only, it fires nothing	Element, Cue, Planned shot, Lane	Script structure
Section	a block of the show, made of parts	Segment	Script structure
Section editor	a person who edits one section of a show’s script	Editor	People and roles
Shot	a tile in a layer: one or more sources placed in the frame	Tile	Layers, shots and sources
Show	one complete setup of the Studio, kept in a .vsshow file		Shows
Show folder	the folder that holds a show file and its files and recordings	Media folder	Show folders
Show Manager	the window where every show is made, opened and closed: the shows on this Mac and your web shows, in two tabs, On This Mac and On liveproducer.ai; File › Show Manager (⇧⌘O), File › Open… and File › New Show… bring it forward	Shows window, Show list, Project Manager, Library	Show Manager
Showrunner	the person who prepares the show on the platform, and closes its script		Showrunner
Skill	Markdown instructions for Spelvin, for example how your scripts are written		Skills
Slides	the show’s slide deck as a source, turned one click at a time	Deck, Slide deck	Slides
Solo	the free plan: one person, one Mac, the whole Studio	Free	Plans and billing
Source	something to show or hear: a camera, a clip, a picture, a page, a window, an input		Sources
Spelvin	the assistant across Live Producer		Spelvin
Stand-in	a source that shows a drawing of what belongs there until you link it to the real one	Placeholder, Slate	Stand-ins
Step	one thing done to a source’s sound: Clean Voice, Room Reduction, Equalizer, Compressor or an Audio Unit; each at most once per source	Effect, Plug-in, Slot, Insert	Processing
Stinger	a graphic over the program that hides a cut underneath		Transitions
Stream target	a place the program is streamed to, such as YouTube or an SRT receiver	Destination, Target list	Stream library
T-bar	the lever left of the transition column that mixes the preview into the program by hand		Transitions
Tab (of a shot tile)	the narrow window on the right of every shot tile: a lamp per shot it brings along, its element count from two, its Auto Out and countdown; a click on it presses the shot with what it brings along	Handle, Badge row	Layers, shots and sources
Tag	a part, slide, script tag, note or person marked in the script’s words on the platform; the script the Studio pulls is read from the tags		Script editor
Take	send the preview to the program, with the transition		Take and cut
Talk	the producer’s microphone to every remote guest, or held on one guest’s row to that guest alone; never on the program	Talkback, Whisper	Talk to guests
The Beta	the coming months in which every company has Team’s limits free and feedback earns points	Early access, Preview, Pilot	Start here
Transition	how the program changes on a Take: Auto or Cut, a look and a duration		Transitions
Tune Audio	the Mac listens 4 s to every source and Spelvin proposes steps for each; you apply what you want	Auto-tune, Optimise	Tune the audio with Spelvin
Venue	a place you make shows in, kept across shows: how long its room rings, its room tone, the steps kept there per source	Location, Site, Room profile	Venues
Warning	something the show still needs, such as a stand-in to link or a missing file		Warnings
Web show	a show on the platform, with its script and files	Platform show	Published versions
With (a press)	a press that brings along what the shot brings along, as opposed to the shot alone	Linked, Grouped	Bring shots along
Your standing	a beta tester’s points and place among the others, on the Feedback page and in Settings › Account	Leaderboard, Rank	Feedback

See also

• Layers, shots and sources
• Components