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SECTION 3.12 CONFIGURE VIDEO INPUTS
Control over settings for video sources is provided in TriCaster’s monitoring section. The individual monitor viewports on the Live Desktop can be flexibly assigned to show different video sources.
Complete monitor layouts can be prepared, stored and recalled using tools located in the Workspace menu in the Dashboard.
We’ll look into that in depth in the Reference Section of this manual, but for now let’s configure the video sources you connected earlier (Section 3.5.1).
1. Click Workspace in the Dashboard (at the top of TriCaster’s Live Desktop).
2. Four monitoring layout presets
are listed at the top of the menu
FIGURE 26 (TriCaster 8000 shown)
as Interface A through D. Select Interface A, if it isn’t already check-marked.
3. Otherwise (all other models), select All in this menu.
4. The monitoring pane will no show individual monitors for each camera, with
Camera 1 at upper left.
5. To continue, you could select Configure from the monitor’s context menu, but let’s take a different approach.
6. Move your mouse back and forth over the Camera 1 monitor and notice that a Configure button (gear icon) appears beneath it at right.
7. Click this Configuration button to open a tabbed settings panel for Camera 1
(Figure 26).
8. Click the Connection Type button to reveal a drop-down menu listing a variety of connection types. Select the correct format, such as 720p (Component) or 1080i (SDI), for the video source you connected to Video Input 1 on TriCaster’s backplate (menu alternatives vary by TriCaster model; for TriCaster 410, all connection types are SDI).
9. Close the Configuration panel for now (note that you can click the Close
button or simply ‘click outside’ the panel to close it).
10. Continue to configure all connected external video sources in the same manner.
We’ll look at the other options and settings in the Configuration panel later (see Section 8.2), but at this point you should be able to view the video inputs you have configured on their respective monitors.
