Chapter 4 LIVE PRODUCTION WALKTHROUGH

This chapter provides a quick hands-on tour of the major components and functions of your NewTek TriCaster™. In a very short time, these basics will be second nature to you.

More detailed reference material on all aspects of TriCaster follows in Part II (Reference).

Having made the essential external connections in the previous section, let’s start your first TriCaster™ session, and skim through some important fundamentals:

 Startup and Import

 Monitoring and related features.

 Audio mixing (and the Follow feature).

 Network sources.

 Switching between video sources, and using transitions.

 Program output and recording.

 Playing stored clips using the DDR (‘Digital Disk Recorder’).

 Adding (and editing) title pages and graphics.

 Using an M/E to create a simple chromakey effect.

 Configuring a LiveSet (virtual set) shot.

 Using Buffers

 Streaming to the Internet.

SECTION 4.1 CREATING A SESSION SECTION 4.2 IMPORTING CONTENT SECTION 4.3 CONFIGURING SHARE ACCOUNTS SECTION 4.4 MONITORING SECTION 4.5 AUDIO MIXER SECTION 4.6 NETWORK SOURCES SECTION 4.7 LIVE SWITCHING SECTION 4.8 RECORD AND GRAB SECTION 4.9 MEDIA PLAYERS SECTION 4.10 LIVEMATTE & M/ES SECTION 4.11 MORE ABOUT M/ES SECTION 4.12 BUFFERS SECTION 4.13 STREAMING

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