Suggested setups

Spelvin’s suggestions for a show’s setup sit in the Script window’s Suggest Setup Changes panel, under the rows the Studio works out by itself. They help where rules stop: a guest who joins from Teams, a clip whose file has another name, a lower third that should replace an older one.

Where it comes from

Ask Spelvin at the bottom of the panel sends what the script asks of the show (its presenters, live guests, clips and slides) and how the show is set up: its layers front to back, their shots, the sources and which are stand-ins, and what is on the program. It adds the files the web show has, so a suggestion can take the real file instead of a stand-in. Spelvin answers a summary and its suggestions, each Add, Change or Remove, with why.

Taking it

Each suggestion is a row: Apply makes the change as one undoable edit, Skip leaves it, Undo puts the row back. A removal asks once more with Confirm Removal, and is never offered for a shot or source on the program. Nothing changes until you apply a row, and nothing goes on the program by itself. See Setup from the script.

Spelvin’s answer is checked on the server and again on the Mac. An answer that would not apply goes back to Spelvin once with the reason; a row that still would not apply says why.

When it shows

Ask Spelvin is there while the Studio is signed in to a platform that offers Spelvin and the show has a script. Ask Spelvin Again asks once more.

Cost

Each Ask Spelvin counts one action. A failed try costs nothing. See Actions and limits.

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• Setup from the script
• Pull a script
• Chat