NewTek TriCaster 40 - Manual (Page 13)

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When you re-open a session, it’s just as if you were continuing the earlier event. Thus, if you return to the same
venue another day under more or less similar conditions, simply re-open your prior session and you are virtually
ready to go. (Of course, it’s the course of wisdom to test everything before actually beginning the event.)
Naturally, you can create and store multiple sessions, and re-load your sessions to continue working with them.
CREATING AND LAUNCHING SESSIONS
The primary Startup screen (the one encountered first after launching TriCaster) is the Home Page, which is
dominated by an icon ring (Figure 6).
When you click an icon it advances to the front position. For example, the first thing you will likely do on
launching a new TriCaster is create a session. Clicking the New icon updates the right-hand pane of the Home
Page to show session options (Figure 5; multi-standard TriCaster options shown).
Hint: You can also use the keyboard’s left and right arrows to cycle through the icons.
Select your local video standard (multi-standard model, select NTSC, PAL
or NTSC-J) and session format –1080i, 720p, 480/30i (16:9) or 480/30i
(4:3).
Multi-standard
models offer PAL format
equivalents.
You will see a name for the
new session above the
options pane. You can click
the name field to edit it.
Beneath the name is a field
labeled Volume. Use the menu at right to choose which hard drive the
session (and its associated content) is created and stored on.
Note: External hard drives are not recommended for use as session drives.
FORMAT AND OUTPUT CONSIDERATIONS
Remember that for live production, TriCaster can supply SD output (for SD sessions), or both HD and SD in the
case of HD sessions. The format of video signal on Program and Aux outputs varies according to the session
type:
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For all HD sessions, Program (Output 1) output is HD. For SD sessions, Program (Row 1) output is
likewise SD.
Figure 6
Figure 5