NewTek TriCaster 300 - Manual (Page 53)

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4 LIVE PRODUCTION WALKTHROUGH
This chapter provides a quick hands-on tour of the major
components and functions of your NewTek TriCaster™. In a very
short time, these basics will be second nature to you.
More detailed reference material on all aspects of TriCaster™
follows in Part II (Reference).
Having made the essential external connections in the previous section, let’s start your first
TriCaster™ session, and skim through some important fundamentals:
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Startup and Import
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Monitoring and related features.
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Audio mixing (and the Follow feature).
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Network sources.
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Switching between video sources, and using transitions.
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Program Output and Recording.
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Playing stored clips using the DDR (‘Digital Disk Recorder’).
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Adding (and editing) title pages and graphics.
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Using LiveMatte to create a simple chromakey effect.
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Virtual Inputs.
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Creating a LiveSet (virtual set) shot.
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Streaming to the Internet.
4.1 CREATING A SESSION
We ran through the basics of starting new sessions and configuring input and output devices in
sections 3.7 through 0. If you need to review this information, go ahead and do so now. (We’ll
look at them individually again later in Part II (Reference), too.)
1. In the initial Startup Screen, create a new 1080i session - name it “Practice Session”.