Where Spelvin acts

Spelvin works in a handful of places, in the Studio and on the platform. In the Studio it needs you to be signed in; signed out, its windows show a Sign In… button instead.

The Spelvin window

Window › Spelvin (⌥⌘J), or Spelvin › Ask Spelvin. A chat about the show open on this Mac: ask what is missing, how the script runs, better names for shots. See Chat.

The Spelvin menu

The Studio’s Spelvin menu lists what Spelvin makes: Ask Spelvin, New Lower Third…, New Matte Wipe…, New Stinger… and Crop Selected Element To….

The builders

New Lower Third… opens the Lower Third Builder: you describe a lower third and watch it take shape. New Matte Wipe… and New Stinger… open the same window for a transition. See Lower Third Builder and Transition builder.

Crop To

In the inspector’s Look section, Crop To… beside Auto Crop: say what to focus on, and Spelvin proposes a crop. See Crop To.

Suggest Setup Changes

In the Script window, Ask Spelvin at the bottom of Suggest Setup Changes proposes the shots, lower thirds and stand-ins the script asks for, each applied or skipped by you. See Suggested setups.

Script reading on the web

New Show and Import Script Version read a script into sections and parts. Skills › Try it reads a test script with one skill. The Studio reads no script itself: it pulls the web’s reading. See Script reading and Pull a script.

The show’s Spelvin panel on the web

The Spelvin button in a show’s top bar (⌥S) opens a chat about that show, beside the editor. Its proposals change the show’s draft.

The builders on the web

A show’s Files tab has New Lower Third, New Matte Wipe and New Stinger: the same builders, saving into the show’s files.

Captions

Live captions carry Spelvin’s mark, but they are not a Spelvin task: the Mac’s own speech engine writes them. Nothing is sent and no actions count. See Live captions.

See also

• Chat
• Actions and limits