NewTek TriCaster Advanced Edition Automation and Integration Guide - Manual (Page 61)

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Chapter 9 FILES AND STORAGE
Some corollary of ‘Murphy’s Law’ must state that “The more critical it is to a production, the
greater the likelihood that important media will be delivered at the last possible moment and
the wrong format, if it can be found at all.”
This section is devoted to reducing your stress level when this inevitably occurs.
Section 9.1 M
EDIA
F
ILE
F
ORMATS
9.1.1 VIDEO CAPTURE
Current TriCaster products support a number of different file formats for capture, including several native
Quicktime™, AVI, MPEG-2 and H.264 formats. In general, where other considerations permit, we
recommend the use of one of the two Quicktime formats for video capture.
These two file types support all TriCaster features, including embedded timecode, and provide high quality
capture suitable for almost any purpose (the 4:2:2 format has an edge if you are planning on chromakeying
the recorded footage later). Generally, most modern software applications can work with at least one of
these Quicktime formats.
Note: TriCaster and 3Play are able to play back Quicktime files that are still ‘growing’ (being actively captured).
Some external software applications can enjoy the same benefits for files being recorded on NewTek systems in
Quicktime
® format by supporting NewTek’s File Reader SDK, available to members of the NewTek Development
Network, or by accessing recordings underway using TriCaster’s MPEG-2 encoding.
9.1.2 NEWTEK CODECS
Codecs for both Windows ® and OS X ® systems are available for NewTek’s high quality AVI and Quicktime ®
capture formats. The codecs are included in the “Extras” folder of all NewTek live production systems, and
can alternatively be downloaded from the Support pages of the NewTek website.
W INDOWS ® P LATFORM
Users of Microsoft Windows ® systems (other than TriCaster or 3Play) will need to install NewTek’s
Quicktime™ codecs and, of course, the Apple Quicktime ® player to be able to read and write files in these
formats .
The NewTek codec pack for Windows also provides read and write support for NewTek’s proprietary
SpeedHQ AVI format to suitable video applications.