NewTek TriCaster 2 Elite (3 RU) - Manual (Page 134)

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Hint: DDR is short for “Digital Disk Recorder”, a legacy term that – while deeply enshrined as a term referring
to a playback system – is technically incorrect since these DDRs don’t directly support recording.
11.1.1 PLAYLISTS
The dominant feature of all Media Players is a storyboard-style playlist, used to organize content for use
during live productions.
FIGURE 140
This arrangement offers easily visible thumbnail icons for each
entry. A scrollbar at right accommodates long playlists when
necessary. Icons in the playlist can be re-ordered quickly and
easily using the familiar drag and drop workflow. The playlist can
even be altered during playback (of course, if the currently playing
item is removed, playback stops immediately).
An Alias (by default, the item’s filename) is displayed below the
icon, along with the item’s duration.
Hint: The duration shown is the play time after trimming, and thus
may be less than the file length on disk. In such cases, the In and
Out markers on the Scrub Bar (spanning the width of the playlist
immediately below it) show the effect of trimming operations,
while the full width of the Scrub Bar depicts the total length of the
file on disk.
Clicking an item selects it. The play position is automatically set
to the
In Point on selection. Standard Shift + click and Ctrl + click
multi-selection operations are supported, and all selected items
are denoted by a white border around their icon.
When a Media Player is stopped, its output to video monitors
tracks selection and trimming operations. The current item is the
Media Player’s output, and in consequence appears on monitors
dedicated to the player, if any. Of course, only one item can be displayed on output at a time; the frame
surrounding the thumbnail icon for the currently displayed item is illuminated. Double-clicking a thumbnail
(or clicking the
Play button) begins playback from the In Point of the current file.
Hint: Double-clicking elsewhere in the playlist pane opens the Media Browser (hold down shift when clicking
to open a system file explorer instead of the custom Media Browser).
Automatic Clip Trimming
Clips (but, for reasons that will
become apparent, not still images or
titles) in a playlist are automatically
trimmed to accommodate the
addition of transitions between clips
when necessary.
(Otherwise, i.e., if there are no ‘un -
used’ frames to display d uring a
transition, motion will appear
‘frozen’ during the transition, which
is usually undesirable.)
To reset a clip to its full file-length
boundaries, press the ‘g key (multi -
selection is supported, too).