NewTek TriCaster 40 User Manual page 43

VIDEO SOURCES
Virtual Inputs provide LiveSet with a new standard of flexibility, allowing you to easily and flexibly assign inputs
from the Virtual Input tab(s), without Switcher involvement*.
*Hint: One special case is when you select FX as a LiveSet input. Conveniently, this allows you to use the Switcher
to change the input without either interfering with other common Switcher operations or accessing the
corresponding Virtual Input tab.
Figure 66
Virtual sets in the LiveSet system display video from either one or two different TriCaster sources. It will not
surprise you that these correspond to Input A and B, the primary video sources we discussed earlier. (Again as
you might expect, Input B is often assigned to secondary purposes, such as to supply the display for a 'monitor'
in a virtual set.)
ZOOM PRESETS
Unlike earlier LiveSet implementations, LiveSet does not need multiple LiveSets to mimic different 'virtual
camera distances' (for a single camera angle). Making a single selection populates four Zoom Presets just below
(Figure 67).
Figure 67
Initially, these four presets represent default stops between the maximum and minimum distance for the
specific set - the 'closest' view is 100%. Click a preset thumbnail to jump to the camera view it represents. An
active Zoom Preset is shown with a gold border (a white border tracks your cursor when selecting presets).
Notice that a numeric slider is provided above right for each preset. These work the same as other numeric
sliders in TriCaster's Live Desktop – drag to adjust the value, click to type directly into the field using the
keyboard, or press (keyboard) Shift and then double-click to restore the default value for that preset.
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