Introduction - NewTek TriCaster 40 User Manual

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INTRODUCTION

Thank you for purchasing this NewTek™ product! Your TriCaster™ 40 belongs to a large
family of video systems and software with a remarkable heritage. NewTek is very proud of
its record of innovation, design excellence, and product support, and we want you to enjoy
the very best experience and value we can offer.
TriCaster™ sets the standard for portable live production systems. It provides a powerful, reliable and efficient
platform for live production and web streaming, yet requires very modest space and can be operated by one
person.
No matter what your live broadcast
ambitions might be TriCaster can help you
fulfill them. You can produce and distribute
live video programs from diverse sources
and materials in both Standard and High
Definition.
Use multiple cameras, recorded digital
video, PowerPoint®
networked laptops, live web pages, digital
photos and graphics, and much more.
TriCaster also supports Apple's AirPlay®
protocol, allowing compatible off-the-shelf
mobile video devices (such as iPhone® and
iPad®) to stream content wirelessly to
TriCaster.
Your presentations can simultaneously be displayed by video projectors, television monitors, broadcast by
traditional means, and streamed in high quality on the Internet.
TriCaster includes Animation Store Creator™, an immensely powerful add-on application, as well as an
integrated version of LiveText, which lets you prepare great live-editable title and graphics pages for your
productions. In addition, a number of other great products from NewTek including both add-on software and
hardware control surfaces can extend and enhance your productions.
NOTE: Some features described in this Guide – including Animation Store transitions, Animation Store Creator™,
LiveText™, progressive session formats, the Export module, some recording formats, White Balance, scopes,
certain Multiview layouts and Aux output options, and still more – are exclusive to TriCaster 40 Version 2
(Version 1 users can contact their reseller or NewTek Sales to inquire about upgrading).
presentations on
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