Glossary

Term	Meaning	Read more
Audition	the bus for what you play by hand to check it, for your headphones only	Listening privately
Auto Live	a mode in which a click on a shot sends it to the program at once, without the preview	Take and cut
Auto Out	a shot that leaves the program by itself after a set time, such as a lower third	Layers, shots and sources
Bus	a mix of sources that plays to one or more output devices: Program, Preview, Audition, or your own	Buses
Clear	the first tile of every layer: nothing on that layer	Layers, shots and sources
Console and Plain	the two looks of the Studio: a studio vision mixer, or the Mac’s own look	Settings
Contributor	someone who fills in their own parts and files of a show on the platform	Companies, people and roles
Cue	something that happens at a point in the script: a shot, a slide, a lower third	Scripts, sections, parts and cues
Element	one source placed in a shot, with its own position, size, look and effects	The editing canvas
Fade to Black (FTB)	the whole program and its sound to black and back, never saved in the show	Fade to black
ISO recording	each camera recorded on its own, at its full rate	Recording
Layer	a row of shots, at most one of them on the program; the first layer is in front	Layers, shots and sources
Layer setup	a ready set of layers, shots and sources a show starts from	Layer setups
Matte wipe	a transition shaped by an image or animation: black reveals the new picture	Transitions
Multiview	program, preview and sources side by side, for watching only	Multiview
Operator	the person running the Studio during the show	The parts of Live Producer
Part	one step of a section: a speaker, a video, a poll	Scripts, sections, parts and cues
Preview	what the next Take sends to the program; where you edit shots	Layers, shots and sources
Program	what is on air: the picture and sound that go to the recording, the stream and the call	Layers, shots and sources
Prompter	the script for the presenter, on a tablet or screen, following the show	The prompter
Published version	a numbered state of a web show that the Studio receives	Published versions
Section	a block of the show, made of parts	Scripts, sections, parts and cues
Shot	a tile in a layer: one or more sources placed in the frame	Layers, shots and sources
Show	one complete setup of the Studio, kept in a .vsshow file	Shows and show files
Show folder	the folder that holds a show file and its files and recordings	Show folders
Showrunner	the person who prepares the show on the platform; also the Studio window that runs it	Showrunner
Skill	Markdown instructions for Spelvin, for example how your scripts are written	Skills
Source	something to show or hear: a camera, a clip, a picture, a page, a window, an input	Sources
Spelvin	the assistant across Live Producer	Spelvin
Stand-in	a placeholder source that shows a drawing until you link it to the real one	Stand-ins and linking
Stinger	a graphic over the program that hides a cut underneath	Transitions
T-bar	the lever in the Console look that mixes the preview into the program by hand	Transitions
Take	send the preview to the program, with the transition	Take and cut
Transition	how the program changes on a Take: Auto or Cut, a look and a duration	Transitions
Warning	something the show still needs, such as a stand-in to link or a missing file	Warnings

See also

• Layers, shots and sources
• The parts of Live Producer