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Chapter 23 CONTROL SURFACE: TIMEWARP
This chapter describes the functionality supplied by the TimeWarp™ control surface
offered by NewTek, helping you to see how it can deliver convenient replay and Media
Player control to your production setup.
This chapter discusses the use of NewTek TimeWarp ™ control surfaces (in two variants). TriCaster ® 850
TW add convenient slow motion instant replay to the already potent capability of your TriCaster.
TriCaster 850 TW delivers precise control over TriCaster’s
instant replay recording and live playback when used alone.
SECTION 23.1
CONFIGURING TRICASTER
1. Connect a suitable video source to a camera input on your
TriCaster.
2. Select that source on the Switcher’s Program row.
3. Open TriCaster ’s Record Configuration panel and set the
Primary Source (typically to the Program option).
4. Select a suitable encoding format for the captured files.
5. Use the Add to menu in the Primary Recording controls to assign the recorded clips to either DDR 1 or 2.
SECTION 23.2 OVERVIEW
TriCaster 850 TW is quite straightforward to use, especially true if you are already familiar with common
TriCaster
controls and features. In this section, we’ll discuss each part of the control surface, explaining how
the various controls operate and what effect they have, revealing a few little tricks that you may find helpful
along the way.
TimeWarp provides conv enient control over two Media Player’s as well as the recording of sources
configured for capture.
For convenience, related controls and buttons are grouped together on the control surface. We will discuss
the features and operations supported by each group in the pages that follow. The layout includes the control
groups listed below (as shown in Figure 281):
• DDR Delegates
• Edit group (modify playlist content)
• Play Speed (T-bar and presets)
• Mark (replay clip creation buttons)
• ALT and Qualifiers (which modify the operation of other controls)
• Record toggle
• DDR options