Panasonic AV-HLC100E Operating Instructions Manual page 40

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ITLE AGES AND ATA
Naturally, AV-HLC100's title pages support embedded text and images, and these can be modified on
the fly using the integrated Title Editor (see Chapter 12). However, it's helpful to know that title pages
also support NewTek's DataLink system, which provides a convenient and powerful alternative method
to update text and images.
Briefly, DataLink allows title pages to be updated automatically using data served by various local host
or network sources. It works like this:
DataLink tracks values assigned to a set of special variables called DataLink keys. When used in
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title pages, these keys are identified by a name wrapped in % signs – for example, %Session Title
Name%.
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So, while you might add a company name to a title page as a literal entry, e.g., "MyFirm
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Incorporated", the very same text value could be supplied by a DataLink key instead.
o You would enter %Session Title Name% on the title page, and assign "MyFirm
Incorporated" as the value of the corresponding DataLink key.
o When displayed on output, DataLink keys are dynamically evaluated, with the result that
"MyFirm Incorporated" is shown in place of the key (Figure 28).
Since both methods of supplying text to a title page provide the same result when displayed, you might
wonder why it would be worth using DataLink. Let's consider one example:
Almost all of the hundreds of title pages supplied with AV-HLC100 include the %Session Title
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Name% and %Session Title Description% keys. Some also use %Session Title Image%.
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