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Import a script

Start a show from a script on the web, then build it in the Studio with the import sheet.

Turn a script into a show you can run: the web reads it into sections and parts, and the Studio builds the shots and lower thirds for it. See Scripts, sections, parts and cues.

Before you start

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  • You are signed in to Live Producer in the Studio. See Sign in.
  • You have the script as Word, PDF, Excel or CSV, Markdown or text. Writing a new one? The web offers Download the example script, which the built-in rules read as it is.
  • The show’s sources are in the Studio if you have them: the host’s camera, the window the live presenters come in, the slides’ input, the lower-third page. What is missing gets a stand-in you link later.

Step 1: Start the show on the web

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On Live Producer Platform, click New Show, choose Import a script, then Choose the script. Pick a skill under Process input with skill if your company has one, and click Create Show. See Create a show on the web.

The New Show dialog on Live Producer Platform with Import a script selected, Choose the script, and Process input with skill

Step 2: Check it and publish

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Look over the sections and parts the web made, correct them there, and click Publish Version 1. The Studio only takes published versions. See Publish a version.

Section titled “Step 3: Link the show in the Studio”

Open the show to run it in, or make one with File › New Show…. Choose Showrunner › Link to Web Show…. The Live Producer Platform window opens on Link to a Web Show. Pick the web show and click Choose Folder and Pull v1…, then choose where its folder goes.

Step 4: Fill in the import sheet

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The sheet Build Show from the Web lists the sections and parts on the left. On the right:

Group Choose
Who Plays What The source for Host Camera, Second Camera, Live Presenters, Slides and Poll
Shots for the Whole Show Nothing: it lists the shots, lower thirds and clips it will make
Recordings The Media Folder with the show’s movies; a recording picks the movie whose name contains its name
Layers The layer for Picture Shots and for Lower Thirds, and the Lower-Third Page

A role you leave on Placeholder, Link Later gets a stand-in source with a slate. Click Build Show.

Section titled “Step 5: Link the stand-ins”

When the camera, window, page or file is there, link each stand-in to it from the sidebar. Every shot keeps working. See Link a stand-in.

Verify

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Open Window › Showrunner (⌥⌘S). The sections and parts are listed in order, and the web show bar says Up to Date · Version 1. The layer strips have the new shots, and the presenters’ lower thirds.

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Describes Live Producer 0.305 · 29 October 2026

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Release notes

Release notesLive Producer 0.305: the two ways to use Live ProducerLive Producer 0.304: new stand-in drawingsLive Producer 0.303: a new look for the documentationLive Producer 0.302: tooltips in one sentenceLive Producer 0.301: the inspector and the sheets get the ⓘLive Producer 0.300: a small ⓘ beside what it explainsLive Producer 0.299: quieter SettingsLive Producer 0.298: a Help menuLive Producer 0.297: sharper pictures of the inspectorLive Producer 0.296: the documentation, first versionLive Producer 0.295: the documentation site