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SECTION 5.1 INTRODUCTION TO SESSIONS
Whenever you work with TriCaster, you provide certain information about the production environment:
What broadcast standard is used in your locale? Is it PAL, common in Europe among other places, or perhaps NTSC, standard throughout North American regions?
If your task includes cameras or other live sources, are they HD, SD or a mixture of both?
How are cameras connected (are you using component or SDI connections, something else, or a mixture of several connection types)?
As you continue, you may make other adjustments relevant to your current production requirements:
You might calibrate your cameras individually using the Proc Amp settings in the Input Configuration panels.
If your production plans include the use of greenscreen staging, you will probably adjust the LiveMatte settings for one or more cameras to provide optimal keying.
Perhaps you will use the output Proc Amps to adjust the display sent to a projection system.
What are your output device connection preferences?
o For example, will you send video to a local reference monitor using an S-Video or composite cable?
o Do you intend to configure a connection for a projection system?
What external audio connections and adjustments are required?
You might create a playlist of custom title pages in a Media Player, along with additional playlists for the DDRs.
During the course of the actual live production you may perform further fine-tuning, and also add to the media content used in the presentation:
You could grab a series of still images from Program Output.
Grab some clips from the production for replay later.
And capture the network Stream
output as a file.
The list of adjustments, activities and assets involved in a specific production goes on, but the main point to grasp here is that the session is comprised of all of the above collectively. If you do not
