Monitoring; Program And Preview - NewTek TriCaster 850 User Manual

Hint: Although you might well never even notice, a two minute initialization period begins after
you start (or re-start) TriCaster. This 'warm-up' period allows the system to stabilize, ensuring
consistent performance of various components (for example, video clips playing in the DDR before
the end of initialization could skip some frames). See Section 6.5.1 for more information.
We are ready now to commence our tour of the Live Desktop, beginning with further
consideration of monitoring features and options.
4.3

MONITORING

4.3.1

PROGRAM AND PREVIEW

Inevitably, you'll be paying a lot of attention to the main Program and Preview monitors (Figure
34), occupying the right half of the upper (monitoring) section in the Live Desktop by default.
Figure 34
TriCaster's 'Look Ahead' Preview monitor
reflects the outcome of the upcoming
switching operation.
Situated beneath these principal monitors are Stream, Record and Grab buttons, their respective
Configuration buttons, and time/counter fields (we'll look at those features later). A convenient
master volume knob appears here, too (notice the VU meter monitor overlays in Figure 34).
The Program monitor displays what
you are sending to downstream
devices and your audience.
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