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SECTION 6.4 CUSTOMIZING THE LIVE DESKTOP
TriCaster’s Live Desktop layout can be adapted to many different scenarios, and provides a number of customization options that can be of benefit in your workflow. In this section, we’ll touch on several of these.
As charming as descriptive names like Camera 1, DDR 2 and M/E 5 are, you may wish to change these labels to something more appropriate for your local needs.
To do so, simply right-click on one of the following items to open the Rename Input
dialog (Figure 113):
Any monitor in the Live Desktop or external Multiview
Any Switcher source button
The Rename Input dialog has either two or three editable text fields, including Video (the label shown under monitors), a shorter Switcher Button label and, sometimes, Audio – the name shown for the audio input with the same number..
6.4.2 WORKSPACES AND MIN/MAXIMIZE
We explored the use of monitoring Workspace presets back in Section 4.4.2 of the Live Production Walkthrough, and will review it in depth in Chapter 10. At this point, though, we want to mention a couple of related items.
You’ll have noticed that various layout and custom monitoring options for the Live Desktop are provided in the Workspace menu, and that additional options are provided for TriCaster’s native Multiview display.
When a Multiview monitor is in use the two Workspace preset options can be combined with great flexibility, letting you see what you want to see where you want to see it. It’s easy to set up complementary displays in the two monitor areas.
For example, you might show main Program and Preview monitors along with all 8 M/Es on the Live Desktop. Meanwhile, the Multiview monitor could display up to eight live Camera feeds plus Media Players, as well as the (program) output and B row selections for a specified M/E set to Mix mode.
Notice too that you can also drag the horizontal divider between the Live Desktop monitor pane and the Switcher to adjust it. You can even move it all the way to the bottom of the Dashboard, thus hiding the Desktop monitor pane entirely (Figure 114), providing much more room for other modules in the process.
Hint: Reset the Live Desktop divider to its default location by double-clicking it.
We mentioned previously, as well, that clicking the Mix Effects label (Figure 115) between the Monitor and Switcher sections toggles display of the M/E pane.
Hint: The keyboard shortcut to show/hide the M/E tab is “m”.
A number of further workflow and interface options that can be very valuable are found in the TriCaster Options menu, discussed shortly (Section 7.1).