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6.8 LIVESET
TriCaster’s amazing LiveSet™ virtual set technology provides very powerful and professional
capabilities. Like most super heroes, TriCaster’s LiveSet panel hides its superpowers behind a
mild-mannered and unobtrusive exterior.
Don’t be fooled by this apparent simplicity. This panel may be small, but it holds ability that
outstrips systems costing many times the price of your TriCaster and your automobile put
together.
6.8.1 UTILITIES – MATTE OPTIONS
Before getting into a full discussion of the ability LiveSet
brings to your system, let’s complete our discussion of
LiveMatte effects by covering supplemental keying options
located here.
LiveSet’s drop-down Scene menu is our first stop. Choose
the Utilities ‘scene’. Next, use the Shot menu to select the
Matte entry (the Matte Blur selection operates similarly,
but provide different levels of blurring to the background.)
When you do so, the interactive quad display beneath these
menus will display four options.
Click the COLOR MATTE + SHADOW thumbnail in the quad display to add a shadow to
foreground of the LiveMatte effect you set up previously (The LiveMatte switch must be enabled
as well.) Clicking COLOR MATTE restores the default color-based LiveMatte effect.
The LUMA Matte option invokes a LiveMatte effect based on brightness values, instead of color.
For these cases, set the LiveMatte ‘key color’ well to either white or black, and then adjust the
other controls and settings as discussed above.
LUMA MATTE is principally useful for situations requiring you to key title slates provided as white
text on a black background. For most other purposes, COLOR MATTE will produce a better
result. (LUMA MATTE + SHADOW is similar to the COLOR MATTE option above.)
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