NewTek TriCaster 2 Elite (3 RU) - Manual (Page 94)

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* We apologize that mankind has yet not completed its planet-wide upgrade to NDI (shouldn’t be much longer now, we hope).
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Expanding the Name/Comment control group reveals text entry boxes that allow you to provide labels for
your video sources – specifically, the Video entry will appear beneath viewports in multiviews and some
menus (where space permits), and the short Button text will be used to label Switcher buttons.
Enable the Use External switch to automatically pass the channel name for a remote source such as an SDI
router or NDI channel to the Video label field.
The Comment entry lets you enter memo text that can serve as memory aids, but or another very valuable
purpose, too. Specifically, the values entered in these two fields supply the values for special DataLink keys.
Among other things, the values from these DataLink keys can be used to update text values in title pages, or
to add information to the filename of recordings.
Hint: For example, you could use a macro to automatically display a title page briefly any time you switch
cameras. The Name and Comment entries for inputs update the values assigned to DataLink Keys named
%PGM Source Name% and %PGM Source Comment% base on Program row selections.
You might enter “Bill Jones, CEO” as the Video name for a camera, and “Megadyne Computronics, Inc.” as the
Comment. Continue to give unique values to inputs in similar fashion. Then enter %PGM Source Name% on
the first line of a title page, and %PGM Source Comment% on the second line. When you change cameras,
your macro will display the page, correctly identifying the talent based on the input Name and Comment.