Allow blank default option for alternate screens
jeff.pyle
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Today, as of version 3.2.0, with Settings -> Default Media one can configure a default background (including Smart Media) for a particular service item type to a particular screen output. This is very cool. What one cannot do, however, is select that a particular output be "blank" instead of "slide", as seen on the tab for that alternate screen when editing that content once created.
We have an NDI virtual output called Lower Third, as many do. It routes to a video switcher to display song lyrics over a semi-transparent grey box across the bottom of the frame with the rest of the frame completely transparent. Nothing original here. When adding, say, a new "Content" item, it defaults to "Slide" (or "Mirror" on the tab header), which causes the slide to appear full screen on an NDI stream that's really only for lyric overlay. Granted, we shouldn't have that NDI overlay active outside of when songs are happening, but stranger things have happened. Being able to define the default type as "blank" for all service item types other than Song would be quite helpful to us as we import our song library. We're migrating from ProPresenter where this is not an issue.
We have an NDI virtual output called Lower Third, as many do. It routes to a video switcher to display song lyrics over a semi-transparent grey box across the bottom of the frame with the rest of the frame completely transparent. Nothing original here. When adding, say, a new "Content" item, it defaults to "Slide" (or "Mirror" on the tab header), which causes the slide to appear full screen on an NDI stream that's really only for lyric overlay. Granted, we shouldn't have that NDI overlay active outside of when songs are happening, but stranger things have happened. Being able to define the default type as "blank" for all service item types other than Song would be quite helpful to us as we import our song library. We're migrating from ProPresenter where this is not an issue.
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