NewTek TriCaster 2 Elite (3 RU) - Manual (Page 61)

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Chapter 5 THE LAUNCH SCREEN
The Launch Screen is the gateway to a suite of applications as well as maintenance and
management features for both sessions and the system.
We’ll discuss each of these in
the pages that follow, beginning with a review of the concept of sessions.
The Launch Screen ’s Home Page appears whenever you launch your TriCaster. From this screen you will
create and launch sessions , then choose what sort of operations you wish to perform within it by selecting a
link on the (similar) Session Page .
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Your intention may be to begin a new live production, or to produce another episode of a live series. Perhaps
you wish to prepare title pages for an upcoming event, or perform system maintenance.
We’ll look into each
o f these in turn, but first let’s consider a fundamental production concept, the session . What is a session, and
why are sessions both important and valuable to you?
SECTION 5.1
INTRODUCTION TO SESSIONS
Any production involves a specific operating environment. The session is where TriCaster stores the details
of that environment. Obviously, then, configuring session settings properly is important:
• What broadcast standard is used in your locale? Is it PAL , common in Europe among other places, or
perhaps NTSC , standard throughout North American?
• If your task includes SDI cameras or similar SDI sources, what video format do these sources supply?
• Are cameras connected using hardware inputs, NDI, or a mixture of both connection types?