Capturing and playing a clip
Capture a clip
Press Capture to store the last few seconds of Program into whichever bucket is selected. The number beside the button (10 seconds by default) is how many; change it before you press if you need more or less this time.
Play it back
- Play Clip, from a clip’s own menu, plays that one clip.
- Play Bucket plays every clip in the selected bucket, one after another.
- Play All plays every clip in every bucket.
Play Bucket and Play All are also actions, so a hotkey, a Stream Deck button, a rule or a Companion button can start them. So are stopping a replay, selecting a bucket (by name, or the next or previous one), and clearing a bucket, which asks first when it has clips. A key that selects a bucket lights while that bucket is selected.
Crossfade sets how long one clip dissolves into the next, from a tenth of a second to five, and replay fades onto Program and back off it to whatever is in Preview over the same time.
Cutting or fading to something else while a replay plays stops it, once a fade has finished. Taking replay back to Program then plays the selected clip from its beginning.
Over Program, or instead of it
Turn on Play as overlay to have a replay play over whatever is on Program, rather than taking it. It is the same choice a regular overlay makes, and it gets the same Layer picker (1 to 4) once it is on, so you can decide what sits on top if something else is playing too. Leave it off and playing a clip takes Program outright, like cutting or fading to any other source.
Trim a clip
A clip can start later and end sooner than it was captured. Select it in the clip list and put the Replay input in Preview: the strip under Preview shows a track along the whole clip.
- Drag along the track to look through the clip; Preview shows the frame there.
- Press [ (Mark In) to start the clip at the frame shown, and ] (Mark Out) to end it there. Or drag the yellow handles at either end of the bright part of the track.
- The clip then plays from its In to its Out, on its own or in a bucket, and the clip list shows how long it now plays, with a pair of scissors beside it.
- Clear Trim, in the clip’s right-click menu, plays the whole clip again. Nothing is cut from the file, so a trim can always be changed or cleared.
A clip is trimmed while replay is not playing and not on air, on Program or as an overlay.
Organising clips
Right-click a clip in the clip list for its menu: Move Up and Move Down reorder it within its bucket, and Move to Bucket… sends it to a different one.