NewTek TriCaster Advanced Edition User Guide - Manual (Page 259)

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ALT
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Holding ALT provides access to secondary functions for certain buttons. You’ll note on inspection that the
first four buttons in the FX/OVERLAY row have icons on their upper half representing transport and
navigation features associated with TriCaster’s Media Players.
Specifically, the supported control operations are:
 | (Previous Item) – Press this button to go to the previous playlist entry in delegated Media Players.
(The selection cycles to the last playlist entry when necessary.)
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(Stop) – Push once to end playback for delegated Media Players; push a second time to return to
the start position (this operation respects the Single setting for individual Media Players.
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(Play) – Push to initiate playback for delegated Media Players.
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| (Next Item) – Push this button to go to the next playlist entry in delegated Media Players. (The
selection cycles to the first playlist entry when necessary.)
You determine which Media Player to control by pressing ALT. Doing so lights one of the Media Player
selection buttons in the FX/OVERLAY row – whether DDR 1, DDR 2, GFX 1, or GFX 2. Make a different Media
Player selection while ALT is pressed (use SHIFT + GFX 1 to select GFX 2). Then press one of the first four
buttons in the row along with ALT to perform the transport/navigation operation assigned, as listed above.
ALT AND SHIFT F UNCTIONS
Press ALT along with a button on the PREVIEW row to toggle LiveMatte for the corresponding video source.
Add the SHIFT button with ALT button to toggle the source’s Proc Amp instead.