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TriCaster’s Dashboard groups important production features and system display controls in one convenient place for quick access and review.
As well, the Dashboard serves to provide information on the current session, status updates and storage usage, along with timecode and the TriCaster Options menu.
FIGURE 116
TriCaster’s Dashboard is home to a number of important displays, tools and controls. Prominently located at the very top of the Live Desktop, the Dashboard occupies the full width of the screen. The various elements comprising the Dashboard are listed below (starting from the left):
1. File menu
2. Options menu
3. Macros (see Chapter 17)
4. Workspaces (see Chapter 10)
5. Help menu
6. Information (display)
7. STREAM (see Chapter 18)
8. GRAB (see Chapter 20)
9. RECORD(see Chapter 20)
10. Timecode display (see 8.2.8)
Of these items, some are so important that they rate their own chapters. Others are detailed in various sections of this guide (cross references to the relevant sections of the manual are provided above). In this chapter, we’ll focus on those Dashboard features which are not discussed in depth elsewhere.