Spelvin

Spelvin is the assistant in Live Producer, on the web and in the Studio. It comes with a Live Producer account. It reads your scripts, builds lower thirds, matte wipes and stingers, crops a picture to what matters, suggests a new show’s layers, and answers questions about the show.

Three rules hold everywhere:

• Spelvin proposes, you decide. Every change arrives as a proposal you apply or discard.
• Spelvin never touches what is on air. It cannot take, cue, record, stream or start anything.
• Spelvin is private by default. Your requests go to providers that keep no data and never train on it.

Why it is called Spelvin

In American theatre, George Spelvin is the name printed in the programme when the real one should not be there: for an actor who plays a second part, for one who stays uncredited, or for a character the audience must not know about yet. The custom is more than a century old, and where it began is disputed: one account credits the playwright William Gillette, another the producer Winchell Smith, and the name is already in the cast of Brewster’s Millions in 1906. Read the story on Wikipedia.

Spelvin takes its name from that tradition. It works backstage, takes whatever part the show needs, and leaves the stage to the people on it. It has no face and no gender, and the AI models behind it are never named: what you work with is Spelvin.

In this section

• Where Spelvin acts: every place you can ask it.
• Script reading
• Lower Third Builder
• Transition builder
• Crop To
• Suggested setups
• Chat
• Skills
• Actions and limits
• Build a lower third
• Build a transition
• Write a skill
• Ask for changes