Automatic Lower Thirds

Summary

This tutorial demonstrates how to create lower thirds for presentations using themes and audience looks in a slide software. It guides through the process of setting up a new theme for lower thirds, adjusting text properties for optimal readability, and applying the theme to slides. The video also covers how to use audience looks to switch between different themes in real-time during a live stream, ensuring a seamless presentation tailored to various screen outputs.

Takeaways

• 😀 Creating lower thirds for presentations can be done easily using themes and audience looks in presentation software.
• 🎨 Themes allow you to set the formatting of your slides, which can be customized for different purposes such as lower thirds.
• 🔄 Audience looks enable automatic reformatting of text on slides to match a chosen theme, streamlining the presentation process.
• 📝 To create a lower third theme, adjust the text box size, font size, boldness, and character spacing for optimal readability.
• 📐 Ensure the text box in the theme is positioned at the bottom of the slide to accommodate the lower third format.
• 📑 The actual text inside the theme's text box does not matter, as it will be replaced by the text on the slide when the theme is applied.
• 📑️ Naming the theme slide appropriately helps in identifying its purpose, such as 'lower thirds' for music.
• 🌟 Applying a theme in a look involves selecting an alternate theme for the presentation slide layer and disabling the media layer if not needed.
• 🔧 Adjusting the visibility settings of media in themes can ensure that backgrounds only display when there is text present in the associated text box.
• 📚 When using alternate themes, ensure that the number of text boxes in the theme corresponds to the number of text boxes on the slide.
• 🔄 Duplicating and adjusting an existing theme can create a new lower third version for different content, such as teaching notes.
• 📺 Audience looks can change in real-time, allowing for dynamic adjustments to the presentation's appearance on different screens or outputs.

Q & A

What is the main purpose of creating lower thirds in the script?

The main purpose of creating lower thirds is to automatically format text from full-screen slides to be used as on-screen captions during live presentations or streamed content, enhancing the visual appeal and readability of the text.

What are themes and how do they relate to lower thirds in the script?

Themes are a way to set the formatting of slides. In the context of lower thirds, themes allow for the creation of specific text styles that can be applied to slides, making the text appear as lower thirds.

How can Audience Looks be used to reformat slide text?

Audience Looks can be used to automatically reformat any text on slides to match a chosen theme, which is particularly useful for adjusting the appearance of lower thirds in real-time during a presentation or live stream.

What steps are involved in creating a new theme for lower thirds?

The steps include selecting 'Theme' in the main toolbar, adding a new theme named 'lower thirds', entering the theme editor, adjusting the text box position and formatting, setting text properties like size, bold, and all caps, and adding character spacing for better readability.

Why is character spacing important when using all caps in text?

Character spacing is important when using all caps to make the text easier to read, as it can prevent the letters from appearing too cramped and improve legibility.

How can the number of lines of text be determined in a lower third?

The number of lines of text can be determined by inserting sample text into the text box and adjusting the size and position until the desired number of lines fit within the lower third area.

What is the significance of naming the theme slide in the lower thirds creation process?

Naming the theme slide, such as 'lower music', helps identify the purpose of the theme and ensures that it is applied correctly to slides during presentations or live streams.

How do you apply a theme to a look using Audience Looks?

To apply a theme to a look, you go to 'Screens', then 'Edit Looks', create a preset, and for the presentation slide layer, choose an alternate theme like 'lower thirds'. This associates the theme with the look for specific situations, such as music.

Why is it necessary to disable the media layer in the live stream screen settings?

Disabling the media layer in the live stream screen settings ensures that only the video input and slide text are visible, without any media backgrounds that might distract from the main content.

How can you ensure that the correct text appears in the correct text boxes when using alternate themes?

Ensuring that text boxes on the slide are named the same as those in the theme is crucial. This way, when the theme is applied, the text from the slide will automatically populate the corresponding text boxes in the theme.

What is the role of visibility settings in the theme editor for media backgrounds?

The visibility settings in the theme editor determine whether a media background will show based on whether the associated text box contains text. This prevents media from displaying unnecessarily when no text is present.

Outlines

00:00

📽️ Creating Lower Thirds with Slide Themes

The script explains how to create lower thirds for presentations using themes and audience looks. It begins by demonstrating the process of creating a new theme called 'lower thirds' in the theme editor, where text properties such as size, boldness, and character spacing are adjusted to fit the lower third format. The importance of naming the theme slide is emphasized for easy identification. The tutorial then moves on to applying this theme through audience looks, which allows for automatic reformatting of text on slides to match the chosen theme in real-time. The example provided shows how to switch between different audience looks to apply the theme to slides during a live stream or presentation.

05:01

🎨 Customizing Slide Themes for Live Streaming

This paragraph delves into customizing slide themes for live streaming, focusing on adjusting text boxes and incorporating media into the slides. It describes the process of removing unnecessary media actions and resizing text boxes to fit the desired format. The tutorial also covers how to add media to the slide layer for display during live streaming, even when the media layer is disabled. The importance of naming consistency between text boxes in the theme and the slide is highlighted to ensure correct application of the theme. The script concludes with a step-by-step guide on creating an audience look for teachings, which involves disabling the media layer and selecting the appropriate theme slide for the live stream screen. Additionally, it explains how to make the theme smarter by setting visibility conditions based on whether the text box contains text, ensuring that media backgrounds only display when accompanied by text.

Keywords

💡Lower Thirds

Lower thirds refer to a design element commonly used in video production, particularly in news broadcasts and presentations, where information such as a person's name and title is displayed at the bottom third of the screen. In the context of the video, lower thirds are created from full-screen slides to provide on-screen text that is easily readable and fits well with the video's theme. The script describes how to format slides to hold about three lines of text, adjusting font size, and character spacing for optimal readability.

💡Themes

In the video script, 'themes' are used to set the formatting of slides, which can include text styles, colors, and layout. Themes are essential for maintaining a consistent look and feel across all slides in a presentation. The video demonstrates how to create a new theme called 'lower thirds' and customize it to fit the specific needs of in-person and live-streamed content.

💡Audience Looks

Audience looks are a feature that allows for the automatic reformatting of text on slides to match a chosen theme, ensuring that the presentation adapts to different viewing contexts. The script explains how to apply audience looks to switch between different themes in real-time, such as during a live stream, to change the presentation style without manually adjusting each slide.

💡Text Properties

Text properties refer to the attributes of the text within a slide, such as font size, style, and spacing. The video emphasizes the importance of setting text properties like font size to 50 points and making text bold and uppercase for better visibility in lower thirds. Character spacing is also adjusted to enhance legibility.

💡Character Spacing

Character spacing is the amount of space between individual characters in a text. In the script, it is mentioned as an adjustment made when using all caps to make the text easier to read. The video suggests setting about five points of character spacing for optimal readability in the context of lower thirds.

💡Theme Editor

The theme editor is a tool within the presentation software that allows users to create and customize themes for their slides. The script walks through the process of using the theme editor to create a 'lower thirds' theme, adjusting text boxes, and setting properties to achieve the desired look for on-screen text.

💡Presentation Slide Layer

The presentation slide layer is a specific layer within the audience screens that is focused on in the video. It is where the alternate theme can be applied to the slides. The script describes how to set an alternate theme for the presentation slide layer to ensure that the slides appear correctly during a live stream.

💡Media Layer

The media layer is a component of the audience screens that can include background images or videos. The script explains how to disable the media layer in certain presets to prevent media backgrounds from showing during a live stream, focusing only on the video input and slide text.

💡Preset

A preset in the context of the video is a saved configuration of settings within the presentation software. The script describes creating presets for different scenarios, such as 'music' or 'teaching,' which include specific theme and layer settings to quickly apply a consistent look to the presentation.

💡Visibility

Visibility in the script refers to the conditional display of elements based on whether text is present in a text box. The video demonstrates how to set the visibility of a media background (PNG) to only show when there is text in the associated text box, ensuring that empty slides do not display unnecessary backgrounds.

💡Teaching Notes

Teaching notes are a type of content within the presentation that provides additional information or context for the presenter. The script gives an example of creating a theme for teaching notes and adjusting it to fit the lower thirds format, demonstrating how to adapt different types of content for various presentation needs.

Highlights

Creating lower thirds from full screen slides for in-person and live-streamed presentations.

Utilizing themes to set slide formatting and audience looks for automatic reformatting of text.

Introduction to the theme editor for creating different slide themes.

Customizing text properties for lower thirds, including size, bold, and all caps.

Adjusting character spacing for improved readability in all caps text.

Fitting multiple lines of text within the lower third theme.

Naming the theme slide to easily identify its purpose.

Applying themes in looks to automatically update slide presentation styles.

Creating presets for different presentation scenarios, such as music.

Disabling media layers to focus on video input and slide text in live streams.

Demonstration of how audience looks can change slide themes in real-time.

Ensuring text boxes in the theme correspond to those on the slide for proper application.

Creating a lower third version of a theme for different presentation needs.

Adding media to the slide layer for visibility on the live stream screen.

Importance of matching text box names for correct text application in themes.

Creating audience looks for specific presentation segments, such as teachings.

Adjusting visibility settings to show media only when text is present in the text box.

Final demonstration of alternate themes and looks in action for transformed presentations.

Additional resources available on YouTube and renewedvision.com for further training and tutorials.

Transcripts

working with slides for in-person

content and live streamed or iMed

content doesn't have to be time

consuming or difficult we're going to

look at how you can easily and

automatically create lower thirds from

your full screen slides to do this we're

going to work with themes and audience

looks now themes allow you to set the

formatting of your slides and with

audience looks you can use a theme to

automatically reformat any text on your

slides to any theme so let's see how

this works to get started let's go to

theme in the main toolbar and we're

going to add a new theme and for this

theme we're going to call this lower

thirds and we'll save that and then it's

going to bring us into our theme editor

here you can start creating different

themes and different looks for your

slides so we have the default text box

here and all I'm going to do is I'm

going to move this down to the the

bottom of the screen and then I'm going

to reformat this so it can hold about

three lines of text and looks a little

better for lower thirds for music so I'm

going to go over to my text properties

and I'm going to set the size of this

maybe up to 50 point and we could set

this to be bold and maybe we could do

all caps and anytime I do all caps I

like to add a little bit of character

spacing so it's a little easier to read

so I'm going to click the gear icon

maybe set about Five Points of character

spacing there and that looks pretty good

and then we can see how many lines of

text can fit here so we can just say

line one line two line three and you can

see that we can easily fit three lines

of text and we can make that a little

smaller and move it down if we want to

now the text that's inside of this box

doesn't really matter because when this

theme gets applied to a slide it's just

going to use the text on the slide and

apply this look to it the same will

happen with our alternate books and so

the last thing that we need to do is

actually name what this theme slide is

called so I'm just going to select click

on the outside area here and then this

will change my sidebar here so I can

name this theme slide to lower music and

that way we know what this theme slide

is

next we can go into looks to apply this

theme in a look so we're going to go to

screens and to edit looks and here you

can see all of our different audience

screens and all of the layers on the

screens but the main layer that we're

focused on right now is the presentation

slide layer where we can set a alternate

theme now I'm going to create a preset

for this that I'm going to call music so

that anytime we're doing music we can

use this look and for this music preset

I'm going to go on my live stream screen

and for the presentation slide layer

here I can choose an alternate theme and

I'm going to choose my lower thirds

lower music and then the other thing

that I want to do is disable the media

layer because on my live stream screen I

only want to see the video input and my

slide text I don't want to see any media

backgrounds that I would show on my main

output so now we can close this out and

go back to our show View and we can see

this in action so here I have a motion

background that I downloaded from Pro

content and then you can see our text

over top of it so our slides look

exactly the way we want but if I switch

over from my main output to my live

stream screen you'll see that it looks

exactly the same but if I click over

here on Mr mustache he controls all of

our audience looks and allows us to see

which audience look is currently active

I can switch this to music and when I do

that you're going to see that it

switched our audience look and it's now

applying that theme to our slides in

real time so when I click on a slide

it's going to show me that text and if I

go back to my main output we still have

our full screen text and our motion

background so you can see how that

applies it to those slides in real time

using audience looks now one thing to

keep in mind when you start using

alternate themes is how many text boxes

you have if you have more than one text

box on your slide you're going to need

more text boxes in your theme to

correspond to those here's an example of

how that works so here you can see I

have some teaching notes that I created

with a theme and so in this theme so if

we go to encounters theme here you'll

see my theme has a main text box and it

has a reference text box so we can click

on edit and see how that theme was built

so here we have our main text box that's

just called text and then we have our

reference text box right here this also

is having a media action applied to it

so it's automatically applying that

media action over here in these settings

now let's make a lower third version so

I'm just going to right click on this

and say duplicate and for this one we're

going to name this encounters lower so

encounters lower and then let's remove

this media action because we don't need

that on that screen and then we can

start adjusting our text boxes so I'm

going to change this from maybe 80 3.5

to maybe 50 point font and change our

reference from 50 down to 40. and then I

do actually want some media behind my

text but I want to add that via the

slide layer so that it can be shown on

our live stream screen even though we

have the media layer disabled and so

we're going to go in and we're going to

add some media and I'm going to just

scroll down here and you'll see I have

this encounters lower PNG that I created

I'm going to hit open and that'll bring

that in and it's placed it at the top of

our layer stack let's just move it down

so it's below all of the other text

boxes then I can take my main text box

here and I can just kind of move this

down and have it fill up the bottom area

here that we're using I'm going to take

my reference text box and we're going to

just move this up above and so now we

have our main text and we have our

reference above and I think that looks

really nice for a live stream screen now

the most important thing to make sure

that your text goes in the correct text

boxes is to make sure your text boxes

are named the same thing so my main text

box is just called text and then my

reference is called reference and the

same is happening on our full screen

slide here where we have a text text box

and a reference text box so now let's go

create a audience look to use for our

teachings we're going to go back to

screens and go to edit looks We'll add

another preset here and we'll call this

one teaching and we'll do the same thing

we did earlier where we're going to

disable the media layer and then for the

slide layer on our live stream screen

we're going to go in and we're going to

find encounters and we're going to

choose this encounters lower theme slide

and let's just make this live which will

change our audience look right here and

we can see what this looks like so now

when I click on this on our main output

it looks exactly the way we want it to

and on our live stream screen we get our

nice lower third and when I click on one

with the reference our reference shows

up right here

now the one thing that you'll see is

when I click on this full screen graphic

even though there's no text on the slide

it's still showing that media background

but we can make our theme a little bit

smarter and get rid of that

automatically so I'm going to go back to

more and then I'm going to go to the

theme Editor to bring me back to the

theme editor I'm going to select my

lower third one and I'm going to grab my

graphic here and then under the shape

properties you'll see an option for

visibility for the visibility of this

I'm going to say slide object of text

has text so this piece of media this PNG

will only show if this text box here has

text in it if it does not have text that

media background will not show so now we

can see how this looks so when I show

this you'll see we get our background

and our text and when I click on this

slide since there's no text in any of

the text boxes nothing shows and when I

click on this one with the reference we

get all of it alternate themes and looks

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