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Chapter 17 MACROS, AUTOMATION AND REMOTE
CONTROL
Macro capabilities smooth out your workflow, reducing complex operations to a single button press, and make it easy to produce sophisticated programs. Combined with TriCaster’s Hotspot automation, macros provide many opportunities for both workflow streamlining and creative applications. (As well, macros can reduce or eliminate embarrassing operator errors.)
This Chapter also covers Remote Control, which allows TriCaster operations to be synchronized for various purposes.
One of the hardest things about live switching is keeping up with the action. We’re only human, limited as to how fast our fingers can move, recall and perform important sequential steps, and so on.
TriCaster’s macros are the answer to that dilemma. Record any sequence of events as a macro and play it back with one click. Alternatively, trigger it with a keystroke, control surface operation, or HotSpot.
FIGURE 283
Macros can do almost anything; Preload and play content, modify audio settings, automate complex switcher sequences or perform synchronous operations.
The compelling usefulness of macros justifies the prominent Macros menu
placement in TriCaster’s Dashboard. FIGURE 284
Click Macros to show a menu (Figure 284) containing a Configure Macros item. This opens the Macro Configuration Editor, which is where you can create and manage macros.
Hint: The Switcher: Reset entry is permanently included in the Favorites menu. This macro sets all effects (including DSK and Key transitions) to the default Fade, and assigns M/Es to Mix mode. It does not alter active source selections.