NewTek TriCaster Studio User Manual

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Hint: Use the End and Home keys on your keyboard to navigate to the beginning and end of text
lines. If you mistyped, you can use the Backspace key to erase or the keyboard arrow keys to go
back or forth on the line or up and down between lines.

Arrow (Selection)

Clicking on the Arrow button activates the Selection tool (and switches off the Text tool). This
selects the whole line, not just parts of it. If you have just typed something in, clicking the Arrow
will create a box around what you typed. Select the line by clicking anywhere on it.

When you roll your mouse over the box, the cursor changes form. When it becomes a two-
headed arrow, you can click to grab an edge of the box and drag it in or out to resize the text.
When the cursor sprouts four arrowheads, you can click and grab the whole box to move it
around the Canvas. Hold down the Shift key over a corner of a selected object and a curved
arrow appears, indicating you may now drag to rotate it.

GRAPHIC SHAPE TOOLS

The area immediately below the Arrow and T(Text) buttons is home to a number of tools used to
create shapes. Each shape is initially a separate graphic object.

The tools are very easy to use, and just as easy to edit at any time after their creation, whether
simply to adjust their position, or to add or modify much more elaborate treatments.


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