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An information display in the Live Desktop titlebar provides a number of useful items. Displayed information includes:
(Session Name)
(Session format)
Status message display
The Status message area sits next to the session information display, but is hidden when no message is shown. When TriCaster needs to inform you regarding system events or conditions, text messages replace the normal information display. Status messages may pertain to operations or system conditions; they may be benign, as in *Figure 118, or cautionary.
* A brief initialization is required following system startup for DDR video playback to stabilize. During this brief ‘warm-up’ period, an initialization countdown appears in the Status message display...
The display automatically clears itself a few moments later so as not to pose an unnecessary distraction.
FIGURE 119
The Switcher Memory ‘gauge’ tracks how much system memory is consumed by currently selected virtual sets, transitions and the like. (If you do inadvertently overtax the effects system by pre-selecting many, many large custom effects – an unlikely scenario – you might just reach the limit, which could in turn result in dropped frames.)
Hint: Another useful bit of system information concerns avaliable drive capacity. The remaining space on each individual storage volume mounted is shown in the Save To menu in the Record Configuration panel.