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MACROS, AUTOMATION AND REMOTE Chapter 17
CONTROL
Macro capabilities smooth out your workflow, reducing complex
operations to a single button press, and make it easy to produce
sophisticated programs. Combined with TriCaster’s Hotspot
automation, macros provide many opportunities for both
workflow streamlining and creative applications. (As well, macros
can reduce or eliminate embarrassing operator errors.)
This Chapter also covers Remote Control, which allows TriCaster
operations to be synchronized for various purposes.
One of the hardest things about live switching is keeping up with the action. We’re
only human, limited as to how fast our fingers can move, recall and perform
important sequential steps, and so on.
TriCaster’s macros are the answer to that dilemma. Record any sequence of events
as a macro and play it back with one click. Alternatively, trigger it with a keystroke,
control surface operation, or HotSpot.
FIGURE 283
Macros can do almost anything;
Preload and play content, modify
audio settings, automate complex
switcher sequences or perform
synchronous operations.
The compelling usefulness of macros
justifies the prominent Macros menu
placement in TriCaster’s Dashboard.
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