NewTek TriCaster 40 User Manual page 14

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What broadcast standard is used in your locale? Is it PAL, common in Europe among other places, or
perhaps NTSC, standard throughout North American regions?
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Are you using HD or SD cameras (or a mix of both)?
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How are your cameras connected?
As you continue, you may make other adjustments:
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You might calibrate your cameras using the Proc Amps.
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For any greenscreen sources, you will adjust the LiveMatte settings for optimal keying.
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You will select output device connection types and settings.
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You might create playlists in Media Players.
During the course of your production you may add to the media content available:
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You could grab a series of still images from Program Output.
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And capture the network Stream output as a file.
The list of adjustments, activities and assets involved in a specific production goes on, but the point to grasp is
that the session is comprised of all of the above. Best of all, if you do not delete the session you created before
a production, all of your media and your session settings too are ready for immediate recall.
When you re-open a session, it's just as if you were continuing the earlier event. Thus, if you return to the same
venue another day under more or less similar conditions, simply re-open your prior session and you are virtually
ready to go. (Of course, it's the course of wisdom to test everything before actually beginning the event.)
Naturally, you can create and store multiple sessions, and re-load your sessions to continue working with them.
CREATING AND LAUNCHING SESSIONS
The primary Startup screen (the one encountered first after
launching TriCaster) is the Home Page, which is dominated by an
icon ring (Figure 5).
When you click an icon it advances to the front position. For
example, the first thing you will likely do on launching a new
TriCaster is create a session. Clicking the New icon updates the
right-hand pane of the Home Page to show session options
(Figure 6; multi-standard TriCaster options shown).
Hint: You can also use the keyboard's left and right arrows to cycle through the icons.
Select your local video standard (multi-standard model, select NTSC, PAL or NTSC-J) and session format –1080i,
720p, etc. Multi-standard models offer PAL format equivalents.
You will see a default name for the new session above the options pane; click the name to edit it.
Figure 5
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