NewTek TriCaster TC1 (2 RU) - Manual (Page 239)

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SECTION 22.7
BUFFERS AND TITLES
TriCaster supports both static title
templates (.CGXML file format)
and animated LiveGraphics
(.livegfx file format) title pages
in its
Buffers module. In turn,
these title pages respectively
support one or both of two different
types of presets
– Data Presets and Layer
Presets.
Data Presets store text strings and image file links, and allow
you to quickly update those aspects of a title page on demand. Layer
Presets are still more powerful, and allow you to hide or display layered
various graphic elements compris ing your LiveGraphics™ title page using
predetermined per-layer animation (for more about LiveGraphics, including how to
author your own dynamic title pages, please refer to Appendix A.4).
To access these features from your VMC1 control surface, you must first delegate a specific Buffer slot
containing the target graphic you wish to control. To do so, hold down SHIFT + MEM and punch the button
on the PGM A/C row at left corresponding to the desired Buffer .
Having delegated a Buffer as just described, hold down SHIFT + MACRO and punch the button on the PGM A/C
row at left that corresponds to the Data Preset you wish to recall. Or hold down SHIFT + COMP instead, to
invoke a Layer Preset using the same selection method.
SECTION 22.8
JOYSTICK
The VMC1 control surface joystick provides a very versatile input mechanism.
In considering its applications it is important to realize that, unlike the Layers and Effects control groups at
left, the Joystick(s) located in the surface’s right -most column can optionally operate completely
independently from the stripes at left.
Thus, while T-Bar operations (for example) are always directed to the video busses delegated to the stripe
they are in, Joystick manipulations can affect any M/E , a PTZ (Pan, Tilt & Zoom) camera, or even a Media
Player .