Loading and Using Overlays
You can use either JPEG or PNG files as overlays in your shows, although if you’d like to make use of transparency (such as with logos, titles or lower-thirds), then you’ll need to use PNG files that support transparency (or “alpha channels”).
Import these files by simply clicking “Add Media” and browsing for the files on your computer. Once in your media library, you can click the Overlay function button (so that it lights blue) and drag these files onto any of the seven buttons (A-G).
With an overlay selected, you will see the option to adjust its “Size & Position”. Clicking this allows you to drag any of the four sides of the overlay to crop your frame, drag the corners to resize your frame and click-and-drag within the image to change the overlay’s position. You can fine tune its XY coordinates, width and height with the menu bar that appears below your Overlay on-screen, and the button to the far left of this bar allows you to reframe your crop.
When enabling an overlay, it will appear over the top of your live Program feed until you disable it again. This is perfect for titles, logos, lower-thirds and similar graphics which you want to remain on-screen, even if you’re switching camera angles beneath it.
Overlay Transitions
Under the Transition dropdown in your Overlay’s settings panel, you can select either Cut or Fade. Cut will enable or disable your overlay instantly when triggered, while fade will fade it in or out over time. You can set this time with the setting to the right of the dropdown, and this behaves entirely separately to other Overlay transitions and the global transition setting.