"Restore Text" on Low Thirds
Tyler Rasmussen
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On Low Thirds, there's a Remove Background/Foreground button, and after you've made changes, there's a "Restore Original" button.
But often I don't want to restore the original, but as some point I changed the text in the Low Thirds and now I want to "Restore Text" from the original slide.
This especially happens when I'm copying previously used content. In the previously used content, I had to customize the Low Thirds text for whatever reason. But now in this copy, I'm replacing the text for the screens entirely. The only way to make the Low Thirds use the text from the screen slide is to "Restore Original", but that will remove all my other customizations I've done that are the reason I copied the slide in the first place. So now, annoyingly, rather than using the text from the Slide, I have to copy/paste the text from the Slide to the Low Thirds in every single copied item I make. Or have I have restore original and go through the whole process of removing background, moving the text to the Low Third, adding a transparent background behind the text for visibility, and changing the text size.
A simple "Restore Text" option would alleviate this whole headache.
But often I don't want to restore the original, but as some point I changed the text in the Low Thirds and now I want to "Restore Text" from the original slide.
This especially happens when I'm copying previously used content. In the previously used content, I had to customize the Low Thirds text for whatever reason. But now in this copy, I'm replacing the text for the screens entirely. The only way to make the Low Thirds use the text from the screen slide is to "Restore Original", but that will remove all my other customizations I've done that are the reason I copied the slide in the first place. So now, annoyingly, rather than using the text from the Slide, I have to copy/paste the text from the Slide to the Low Thirds in every single copied item I make. Or have I have restore original and go through the whole process of removing background, moving the text to the Low Third, adding a transparent background behind the text for visibility, and changing the text size.
A simple "Restore Text" option would alleviate this whole headache.
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Add to this that the Screens tab and Low Thirds tab need to display warnings when the text doesn't match (beyond carriage returns).
We often copy and paste services from one week to the next, and if we changed the Low Thirds text last week in this song, then when we change the song this next week, the text doesn't change and all of the sudden the screens are displaying different songs entirely! A simple warning would alleviate so many potential mistakes.0 -
@Tyler Rasmussen I have had that same problem a few times.0
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Maybe a "Sync content" checkbox would work too. It would provide a way to quickly confirm if it matches with the main slide. The status of the checkbox could also be used as a visual indicator elsewhere, like in the alt-content tab.0
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This, so much.
If I have to resync text from my projection content back to my lower thirds virtual screen, it takes 5 clicks. If there was a "Restore Text" button, it would only take 1 click.0 -
Honestly, I want to say there should be easier solutions than "restore text". 99.9% of the time, we don't want the text to change between the slides and the low thirds. If we're changing low thirds content, it's usually only where the line returns appear and nothing else. And we mostly try to avoid that because of this issue.
What would be better would be a checkbox that said "lock original text". This would cause all the text boxes on the left to become read-only and uneditable. If you want to edit text , you have to uncheck that box first. That way it's really easy to see when you have slides with low-thirds that might not match the original , and it 99.9% of the time we're going to want that box checked.0 -
It seems to me that this could be a link or unlink text box toggle. That would solve a problem I had recently when I copied a text box from the lower thirds on one slide that was formatted correctly and had the correct text to another slide and when I pasted it changed the text on the main slide.0
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I like the idea of Sync text to ensure that the text is identical on the lower-thirds livestream as on the slide tab.0
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yeah. ii hope this gets released soon. i hate it when i would accidentally type in the textbox for the lower thirds.0
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COMPLETED. THANK YOU.0
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@Tyler Rasmussen "Honestly , I want to say there should be easier solutions than "restore text". 99.9% of the time , we don't want the text to change between the slides and the low thirds. If we're changing low thirds content , it's usually only where the line returns appear and nothing else. And we mostly try to avoid that because of this issue."
While the 'restore text' works to add what is on the presentation slide to the lower thirds , why doesn't Proclaim recognize the change in the text of the presentation slide and auto match it in lower thirds? It does recognize it for Header/Subheader slides , but NOT for content slides. Makes no sense0
