NewTek TriCaster Advanced Edition Automation and Integration Guide - Manual (Page 39)

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Chapter 7 DATALINK™
TriCaster’s integrated title page system provides many opportunities for internal automation
and broader pipeline integration.
Its unique DataLink™ implementation combines with native as well as third-party automation
systems to supply text and image updates for CG purposes from a wide array of live and
prepared data sources.
Section 7.1 I
NTRODUCTION
TriCaster’s internal Media Players and title system, coupled to a world-class effects engine, allow you to
introduce colorful and informative titles and graphics into your productions with ease and flair. And, as
discussed in earlier chapters, the macro and automation features add greatly to the value of this
implementation:
 The display of title pages can be automatically controlled and timed based on diverse trigger events
and Switcher states.
 Using the integrated title editor, text and image content of title pages can be updated on the fly, too.
 Some third-party software solutions can also control and update title page text and image content.
Even so, NewTek’s innovative DataLink™ technology extends these capabilities greatly, by providing
realtime updates from a wealth of data sources. Let’s consider its best known prior role as background.
7.1.1 LIVETEXT™ AND DATALINK™
The optional standalone version of LiveText™, NewTek’s titling and graphics software, has long derived
benefit from its native DataLink support. Title pages prepared and displayed in LiveText can be updated in
realtime based on data from a variety of different source types, including files in ‘watch folders’, data feeds
from scoreboards, and more. In turn, the satellite instance of LiveText running on an outboard system can
transmit the updated title page display across the local network to TriCaster for use in live programming.
(See your LiveText standalone documentation for more detail.)
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7.2.1 KEY NAMES AND TITLE PAGES
TriCaster Advanced Edition’s native DataLink implementation can dynamically update key name entries in
your title pages. When the page is displayed on output, information drawn from external data sources is
substituted for the key name. (The external data is formatted with the attributes you assigned to the key
name entry when creating the title page).