Inputs

Use Add Input (plus icon) in the bottom bar, or the Add Input button in the empty Inputs panel. The empty panel says: "Add a screen, camera, NDI source, caller or media file, or drop a file here."

Use Add Input in the Outputs bar. The menu starts with a heading "Add input".

| Colour | A colour input called "Colour". It starts as solid Cliqer green and its editor opens at once. See Colour inputs | | Generator | A submenu of built-in animated backgrounds, then Open ISF File... for your own shader. See Generators | | Network stream... | A side card to receive an SRT, RTMP, RTSP or HLS stream. See Network streams | | Spout... | A side card that lists the Spout senders running on this PC. See Syphon and Spout | | Blackmagic... | A side card for a Blackmagic capture card. Hidden in builds without card support. See Blackmagic cards | | Web page... | Opens the Add web page card for the URL and page size. See Web pages | | Video, audio or image file... | Pick one or more files. Each becomes its own input | | Image... | Pick one or more images | | List | An empty media list called "List n". Add files from its menu | | Title... | The Add Title dialog. It opens the Title Designer once added. See Titles | | Timer | A Timer title added at once, with no dialog: big digits that fill the frame and count down from 5:00 on their own clock. It opens the Title Designer once added. Needs titles in your plan, like Title.... See Timer titles | | Teleprompter | A scrolling script. Needs Studio titles. See Teleprompter | | Mix | One item per Screen that is not a Mix yet. Adds that Screen as an input. Studio HD, Studio 4K, Studio 8K and Enterprise plans. See Mix | | Canvas | One item per output canvas that has no Canvas input yet, or "No canvases". Adds that canvas as an input. Studio HD, Studio 4K, Studio 8K and Enterprise plans. See Output canvases | | Captions | A captions input added at once, with no card first. Its card opens when it is added. The entry reads "Captions, needs upgrade" when your plan lacks live captions. See Captions inputs | | Video call: invite a presenter | A submenu of everyone in the room, by name, or the heading "No presenters in the room". See Video calls |

Header: a category colour stripe, the input number, a kind symbol, the name, and, while you hover over the tile or it is selected, an X button (tooltip "Close input") that removes the input at once with no confirmation. Caller tiles also show a link dot (green connected, amber connecting, red otherwise). A pause glyph ("Live pause is on") appears when the input is paused. The header turns red while the input is on Program and green on Preview, and the picture has the same tally ring.

Picture: a click puts the input on Preview. Double-click puts any other input on air (Program, no fade) and leaves Preview alone. Double-click a scene tile to open the Scene Editor instead, so a mis-click cannot cut it live. Inputs with sound show a small stereo level bar on the right edge. While you hover over the tile or it is selected, a Pop-up preview key at the top right of the picture opens a floating live picture of the input.

Footer, one row at every tile size:

GO and Cut are left out on an audio input and on a caller still in the green room, which cannot go to Program.

Media tiles also have Play or Pause, a position bar you click or drag to seek, Restart, and on list inputs Previous item and Next item.

Title bar: the input number, a kind icon, the name (ellipsis when long), a link dot on caller tiles (green connected, amber connecting, red otherwise) and, while you hover over the tile or it is selected, a close button. The bar is red on Program, green on Preview, otherwise the category colour or grey. Closing removes the input with no confirmation.

Picture: a left click puts the input on Preview. A double-click puts the input on air (Program, no fade), scenes included. A right click opens the input menu. Inputs with sound show a level bar on the right edge (turn it off with Audio levels on tiles in the Tools bar). On hover a Pop-up preview key at the top right opens a floating live picture of the input.

Footer, one row at every tile size (hidden by Basic):

GO and Cut are left out on an audio input and on a caller still in the green room, which cannot go to Program.

Media tiles also have a row under the picture: Play or Pause, a position bar you click or drag to seek, on list inputs Previous and Next, and Restart. Timeline tiles have Play or Pause, Stop and their position bar (see Timeline). Every key is also a control in External Control.

For the same controls in a card, right-click the tile, open Media and choose Position... to open the Playback card: Play or Pause, Restart (tooltip "Back to the mark in") and a Position slider in seconds, 0.1 s a step, that seeks.

Click the title bar to select a tile without touching Preview. List view in the Tools bar shrinks tiles to the title bar and the footer.

In order: Preview (and Assign Shortcut, MIDI or OSC...), Quick Play, Cut, Transition (1 to 5), Overlay (1 to 8, checked when on), Show on Display (one item per attached screen, checked while a Display output of this input runs on it), then by kind:

• Scene: Edit Scene..., Add Layer, Duplicate Scene.
• Image or Colour: Duplicate. A colour also has Colour... to open its editor.
• Caller: Message....
• Any live input: Make a Scene from This (a scene that shows the source full frame).
• NDI input: Change Source to re-point it at another NDI source.

Then Picture (Fit or Fill), To Room, NDI Output, About NDI® (ndi.video), Loop (media only), Live Pause, Category (None, Category 1 to Category 6), Move Left, Move Right, then by kind Stream Settings... and Reconnect (network streams), Syphon Source... or Blackmagic Settings..., then Rename and Settings..., PTZ Controls... (cameras and NDI inputs) and Close.

In order: a heading with the number and name, Preview, Cut to Program, Quick Play to Program, Overlay (1 to 8), Audio on, Live pause, Fit in Program, Fill Program, Show to the room, NDI output, Audio follows, Category, GO button, then rows by kind (Overlay on Preview; Media for media inputs, with Loop, and List for lists; Title on overlay n and Edit title text... for a title; Hang up and Caller return for a caller), NDI source (NDI inputs only), Edit scene... (scenes), Colour... (colours), Stream settings... and Reconnect (network streams), Spout sender..., Blackmagic settings..., Effects... (any input except scenes and audio inputs), PTZ camera... (cameras and NDI inputs), Web page... (web pages), Captions... (captions inputs), Duplicate (scenes, images, colours) or Make a Scene from this (live inputs), Assign Shortcut, MIDI or OSC..., Rename, Move earlier, Move later and Remove input.

Items with a state show a tick when on. Rename opens a text box on the tile: Enter saves, Escape cancels.

Open the Inspector (toolbar, the cog on a tile, or Rename and Settings...). It never blocks the Studio window.

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Overlays: Overlays keys 1 to 8 put the input on that channel, On Preview keys 1 to 8 on that channel's Preview, the same as the tile's keys and flyout.

Kind settings: a network stream shows its stream fields here with Apply and Reconnect; a colour a Colour section with its editor; an NDI input a Source section with Change Source; Syphon, Blackmagic and title inputs a Settings section with Syphon Source..., Blackmagic Settings... or the title's items.

Media and list inputs add a Playback section (Loop, Play when on Program, Pause when off Program, Restart when on Program, Speed 50, 100, 150 or 200 %, Length, and Marks with In, Out and Clear to play only part of a clip) and a Stinger section (see Transitions). List inputs add a List section: Play this item, Remove from the list, Add Files..., Previous, Next, Play next automatically, Start with the first item, Loop the list, Shuffle, Import M3U... and Export M3U....

Caller inputs add a Caller section: see Video calls.

Other sections: Effects (every input except a scene, see Effects), Video delay (cameras), Web page and Page size (web pages, see Web pages) and PTZ (cameras and NDI inputs, see PTZ cameras).

The last section has Duplicate Scene (scenes), Duplicate (images and colours) or Make a Scene from This (live inputs), Show on Display, then Remove Input.

The gear on a tile opens its input card as a side card; click the gear again to close it. In order: Overlays keys 1 to 8, On Preview keys 1 to 8, Include in ISO record (the MultiCorder), Live pause, then Loop and Playback... for media inputs, then the input's own settings, the same rows as in its menu: Edit scene..., Colour..., Stream settings... and Reconnect, Spout sender..., Blackmagic settings..., Effects..., PTZ camera... and Web page..., whichever apply.

The card has no Duplicate or Show on Display yet; Duplicate is in the input menu. The other settings are in the input menu too:

Effects, PTZ and web page settings open as a side card from Effects..., PTZ camera... and Web page... in the same menu. Media, list, title and caller settings are in its submenus.

Web Page... opens Add Web Page: the URL, the page size (Width, Height and a Presets menu), the Frame rate, Transparent background and Custom CSS. Afterwards the input's inspector has a Web page section (URL with Go, Reload, Status, the page Title and any error) and a Page size section with the same size, frame rate, transparency and CSS settings (Apply and Reset to Default for the CSS).

Web page... opens the Add web page card with a Name, the URL, Width, Height, Frame rate, Transparent background and Advanced: custom CSS, then Add. Choose Web page... in the input menu to edit the same settings later, to Apply them, or to Reload. The card shows the page phase (Loading, Loaded, Failed or Closed), the page title and any error.

Open the Effects section of the inspector (every input except a scene).

Choose Effects... in the input menu to open the Video effects card.

Mirror horizontal, Mirror vertical, Deinterlace and Sharpen come first in the Effects section, above Colour correction. Each mirror and Deinterlace is a plain switch; Sharpen has its own switch and Reset.

In the Video effects card the Picture group (with its own Reset, which switches all three off) and the Sharpen group sit after Show matte, above Background.

The Background section of the inspector has a Background effect switch and:

The Effects... card has a Background group with a switch and the same Mode (Remove, Blur or Replace), Blur (Blur mode only), Backdrop (Replace mode only, starts at None) and Edge softness. There is no Quality picker on Windows yet. Background removal works in every Windows build, on x64 and Arm: it uses Windows ML with a small segmentation model that installs with Cliqer. If it cannot start on a computer, the group stays switched off and a line beside it says why, for example "Background removal could not start on this computer. Reinstall Cliqer, or update Windows." It needs Windows ML, which comes with Windows: if the line appears, reinstall Cliqer or update Windows.

Title... in Add Input opens Add Title with a Template and a Style picker, then the starting fields of the template, then Add. The sheet is for adding only. When you press Add, the Title Designer window opens on the new title, and that is where you edit it afterwards. Browse Templates... in the sheet opens the template gallery (see Templates and text styles).

Open the Title Designer on any title input in one of three ways:

• Choose Edit Title... in the title's tile menu.
• Double click the title's tile.
• Press Add in Add Title (it opens by itself).

The window has three panes, with the animation strip under the canvas (see Animation and keys). Its toolbar has a Layers and an Inspector button that hide or show the side panes, Undo and Redo buttons that name the step they act on (for example "Undo Title"), the Text, Shape and Image buttons that add an element, a Templates button, the toggles Snap (on by default), Show Safe Areas and Rulers, and the zoom chip: Zoom Out, the zoom label (Fit or a percentage; click it for Zoom to Fit) and Zoom In. The menu bar has an Insert menu while a Designer is open, and the Edit and Layer menus carry Delete and Duplicate. A title edit is one step in Studio's undo history, and a whole drag is one step.

• Layers (left): the elements of the title, front first. Each row has an eye button to hide the element and a lock button to lock it. Click a row to select that element. A locked element does not move when you drag it on the canvas. Under the list, a foot bar of three icon buttons: + (Add Layer) opens a menu to add a Text, Shape or Image element, Duplicate Layer copies the selection and Delete Layer deletes it.
• Canvas (centre): the real render of the title, drawn by the same engine that draws it on air, with the selection drawn on top. Rulers adds a ruler on each edge in percent of the picture, and Show Safe Areas draws the safe areas. Zoom with the chip, Cmd -, Cmd 0 (zoom to fit) and Cmd =, or scroll or pinch. Hold Space and drag to pan.
• Inspector (right): the settings of the selection, described below.

Edit on the canvas

• Click an element to select it. Shift-click adds it to the selection or takes it out. Click empty canvas to clear the selection.
• Drag on empty canvas to draw a selection box around several elements. Hold Shift to add them to the current selection.
• With several elements selected, one box surrounds them. Drag inside it to move the set, or drag a handle to scale the set together (text size follows the height). There is no rotate handle for a set: the Rotation field in the Inspector turns the whole set as one piece.
• Drag an element to move it. Drag a square handle to resize it. Drag the round handle to rotate it.
• Shift locks a move to one axis, and turns a rotation in 15 degree steps. Control switches snapping off for that drag. With Snap on, an element snaps to the guides and shows them while you drag.
• While you resize, Shift keeps the proportions and Option resizes from the centre. Hold both for both. Guides show on a resize too.
• The arrow keys nudge the selection, and Shift with an arrow nudges it further.
• Delete removes the selection. Right click an element for Duplicate, Delete and the four stacking commands (bring to front, bring forward, send backward, send to back). Every one is one undo step.
• Right click a row in Layers gives the same menu.

Inspector

• Element (one element selected): the Name of the element, its Type, and its X, Y, Width and Height as percentages of the picture, Rotation in degrees, a Tilt pair that turns the element in depth around each axis, and Opacity. Type a number and press Return. With several elements selected the section says "n elements selected".
• Elements (several selected): Rotate turns the whole selection as one piece and says Mixed when the angles differ. A whole group turns as one piece too.
• Text: one field for each piece of text in the title.
• The text look sections show for a text element. With several text elements selected they show the first one's values and every change goes to all of them:
  • Font: the font family (press the family field for the font picker), Weight (Thin to Black), Width (Ultra Condensed to Ultra Expanded), Italic, Size (4 to 2048, so the slider follows text that a box resize has scaled up), Case (As typed, Upper, Lower, Title, Small caps), Tracking, Leading, Underline, Strike, Align (Left, Centre, Right), Vertical (Top, Middle, Bottom) and Fit (Shrink, Wrap, Wrap and shrink, Overflow).
  • Fill: Solid, Linear or Radial. A solid fill has a Colour. A gradient has colour Stop rows, each with a position, Add Stop (up to 8) and a remove button (down to 2), and a linear gradient has an Angle.
  • Strokes: Add Stroke (up to 4). Each stroke has a colour, Width and Position (Outside, Centre, Inside).
  • Shadows: Add Shadow (up to 2). Each shadow has a colour, Offset X, Offset Y, Blur and Spread.
  • Glow: the Glow switch, then Colour, Radius and Strength.
  • Text Box: Box behind text, then the Box fill (the same Solid, Linear, Radial choice), Padding, Radius and Each line.
  • Text Styles: save the look of the selected text, apply a saved look to the selected texts, or delete one (see Templates and text styles).
• Look keys: the Fill, Strokes and Shadows headers (and Shape fill and Shape outline on a shape) each carry a key diamond with previous and next arrows. One look key holds the whole look of the element, so one diamond serves all its sections. With a whole group selected, the Group section has a pose diamond and a Look diamond, so one key moves or restyles every member.
• Build In and Scroll (a text element selected): see Animation and keys.
• Shape and Image (a shape or an image selected), and Arrange (any selection): see Shapes, images and arrange.
• Data file: File (the name, or "None"), Choose..., and Remove once a file is set; each piece of text then has a picker: Own text or one of the file's columns. Row has a Row picker ("Row 1 of 12"), Previous Row and Next Row step through the file, and the title shows that row. An empty file says "The file has no rows yet."

In the title's tile menu, Title on Overlay n (ticked while it shows) also puts the title on its overlay channel or takes it off.

Title... in Add Input opens the Add Title dialog with a Kind and a Style box, then the fields of the kind, then Add (or Cancel). Browse Templates... closes the dialog and opens the template gallery (see Templates and text styles).

Open the Title Designer on any title input in one of three ways:

• Choose Edit Title... in the title's tile menu.
• Double click the title's tile.
• Press Add in Add Title (it opens by itself).

The window is called **Title Designer: ** and the name of the title, and has three panes, with the animation strip under the canvas (see Animation and keys). Its toolbar has a Layers and an Inspector button that hide or show the side panes, Undo and Redo buttons that name the step they act on (for example "Undo Title"), a Templates button, and in the middle the Text, Shape and Image buttons that add an element. The tooltips show Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y. A title edit is one step in Studio's undo history.

The Windows Designer has no menu bar. Everything a menu would hold is on the toolbar, in the + menu under Layers, or in the right click menu.

• Layers (left): the elements of the title, front first. Each row has an eye button to hide the element and a lock button to lock it. Click a row to select that layer. An empty title says "This title has no elements yet." Under the list, a foot bar of three icon keys: + (Add Layer) opens the insert popup, Duplicate Layer (Ctrl+D) copies the selection and Delete Layer (Delete) deletes it.
• Canvas (centre): the real render of the title, drawn by the same engine that draws it on air. The selected layer has an outline and square handles. The toolbar has Snap (on by default; press Space during a drag to switch it off for that drag), Show Safe Areas and the zoom chip. Hold Space and drag to pan; scroll or pinch to zoom. There are no rulers on Windows yet.
• Inspector (right): the settings of the selection, described below.

Edit on the canvas

• Click an element to select it. Shift-click adds it to the selection or takes it out.
• Drag on empty canvas to draw a selection box around several elements. Hold Shift to add them to the current selection.
• With several elements selected, one box surrounds them. Drag inside it to move the set, or drag a handle to scale the set together (text size follows the height). There is no rotate handle for a set: the Rotation field in the Inspector turns the whole set as one piece.
• Drag an element to move it. Drag a square handle to resize it. There is no rotate handle: set Rotation in the Inspector. Picking one element of a group moves only that element.
• While you resize, Shift keeps the proportions and Ctrl resizes from the centre. Hold both for both. Guides show while you drag.
• The arrow keys nudge the selection, and Shift with an arrow nudges it further. Arrows and Delete do nothing while you type in an Inspector box.
• Delete removes the selection, from the canvas or from a Layers row. Ctrl+D duplicates it. Right click an element, or a Layers row, for Duplicate, Delete and the stacking commands. Every one is one undo step.
• Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y work in an Inspector number box too: they undo and redo the title, not the box's own text.
• Esc clears the selection when nothing is playing (while a title plays it stops the run). With a menu open it closes the menu first.
• On a keyed title, the selection box, handles and hit test follow the pose at the playhead, so the box stays on the moving element.

Inspector

• Element: says "Select a layer to edit it." until you pick a layer, then it has the Name, the Type, X, Y, Width and Height (in percent of the picture), Rotation and Opacity of the layer. The values may go below 0 or above 100, so an element can sit partly off the picture.
• Text: one box for each piece of text in the title.
• The text look sections show for a text element. With several text elements selected they show the first one's values and every change goes to all of them. A slider drag or a scrub is one undo step:
  • Font: the font family (press the family field for the font picker), Weight and Width (Thin to Black, Ultra Condensed to Ultra Expanded), Italic, Size (4 to 2048, so the slider follows text that a box resize has scaled up), Case (As typed, Upper, Lower, Title, Small caps), Tracking, Leading, Underline, Strike, Align (Left, Centre, Right), Vertical (Top, Middle, Bottom) and Fit (Shrink, Wrap, Wrap and shrink, Overflow).
  • Fill: Solid, Linear or Radial, with a Colour, or colour Stop rows with a position, Add Stop (up to 8), remove (down to 2) and an Angle for a linear gradient.
  • Strokes: Add Stroke (up to 4), each with a colour, Width and Position (Outside, Centre, Inside).
  • Shadows: Add Shadow (up to 2), each with a colour, Offset X, Offset Y, Blur and Spread.
  • Glow: the Glow switch, then Colour, Radius and Strength. The radius is one value for both directions.
  • Text Box: Box behind text, then the box fill, Padding, Radius and Each line.
  • Text Styles: save the look of the selected text, apply a saved look to the selected texts, or delete one (see Templates and text styles).
• Build In and Scroll (a text element selected): see Animation and keys.
• Shape and Image (a shape or an image selected), and Arrange (any selection): see Shapes, images and arrange.
• Data: says "No data source. Fields show their own text." with Choose...; once a file is set it shows File, Remove, a box for each piece of text (Own text or one of the file's columns), a Row box ("Row 1 of 12") and Previous and Next buttons that step through the file, and the title shows that row.

In the title's tile menu, Title on Overlay n (ticked while it shows) puts the title on its overlay channel or takes it off.

• All shows everything. The six dots filter by category (tooltip "Category n: drop an input here to file it").
• The magnifier (Command+F) opens Search inputs, which filters by name.
• A count reads "n inputs", or the selected category.
• Tile size menu: Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large.
• In Basic mode the chips and search are hidden and the filter is ignored.
• Empty results say No Inputs in This Category or No Matches, with Show All Inputs.

• Seven swatches: the first shows all inputs; the others are Red, Green, Amber, Purple, Blue and Teal.
• The search toggle opens a box that filters by name. The caption reads "All inputs (n)".
• A Tile size drop-down: Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large.
• An Audio Mixer toggle (Ctrl+Alt+M) shows or hides the mixer panel.
• Empty results say "No input matches."

Lock icon in the bottom bar (Overlays and Tools), or Studio > Lock Switching (Shift+Command+K). Frozen: Preview, Program, Cut, Quick Play, transitions, the T-bar, FTB, GO, stingers, overlay keys, Loop, Live pause and Pause Inputs. A blocked action shows the note "Locked".

Lock switching in the Tools bar or Ctrl+Shift+K. Disabled while locked: Remove, GO, Cut, Loop, Live pause, audio, the transition buttons and the switching keys. Overlay toggles and the gear menu stay active.

The Show menu in the toolbar: New Show, Open Show..., Save Show, Save Show As..., then Open Last Show. Save Show writes to the show's own file, and asks where to save when the show has none yet. The same commands are in the File menu. The show name appears in the status line.

The File menu in the title bar, while Studio is open: New Show (Ctrl+N), Open Show... (Ctrl+O), Open Last Show, Save Show (Ctrl+S) and Save Show As... (Ctrl+Shift+S). The Preset group in the top bar now holds Undo and Redo only. The installer makes Cliqer the app for .cliqer files: double-click one, or open it while Cliqer is already running, and that show opens in the running app.