NewTek TriCaster Advanced Edition Automation and Integration Guide - Manual (Page 9)

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Chapter 1 ABOUT THIS GUIDE
NewTek live production systems deliver awesome production power ‘right out of the
box’. Their ability to simplify and automate custom operations and workflows, and to
leverage the features and content of other platforms in the ecosystem, is the icing on the
cake. This guide introduces all of these capabilities.
Even if you are the hands-on, never-ask-directions type, please peruse
this page. If any questions arise later, you may find the information
here allows you to jump directly to the details you need with a
minimum of reading.
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PART I – OVERVIEW: The introduction to the NewTek ecosystem
also explains the organization of this guide.
Third-party developers who are interested in
participating in the NewTek Developer Program will
also find this discussion helpful as an introduction to the
way their products can interact with NewTek products.
 PART II – AUTOMATION: Introduction to the NewTek
product macro system, including the TriCaster™ and 3Play™ macro implementations, all about macro
editing and management, and discussion of the numerous ways you can trigger macros. This section
also covers mirroring TriCaster 8000 systems.
 PART III – INTEGRATION: This section covers cross-product and cross-platform integration and
communication.
 PART IV – APPENDICES: Information on the NewTek Developers Network, Third Party solutions, a
master Macro Command list, and a time-saving comprehensive keyword index.