NewTek TriCaster Advanced Edition Automation and Integration Guide - Manual (Page 63)

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Section 9.4 A
SSET
M
ANAGEMENT
The integrated Media Browser native to NewTek live production systems is a competent asset management
system, enabling to quickly locate and work with files related to your sessions, or external files. Of course,
more extensive media asset management systems provided by leading industry providers are also available
within the NewTek ecosystem, and may be directly supported by NewTek products.
To utilize your favorite (supported) third-party asset management systems, you need simply hold down the
keyboard Ctrl key when invoking a file browser. For example, double-clicking a blank spot in a DDR
playlist on TriCaster with Ctrl depressed will show your compatible custom asset management interface,
rather than TriCaster’s native Media Browser.
Hint: Alternatively, you can open a standard system file explorer, by holding down the Shift key rather than Ctrl
when adding files.
A list of known third-party solutions on offer at the time of writing, along with brief details, will follow (in
Developer Network). Asset management solutions can include outboard storage systems, so let’s talk
about this related matter.
Section 9.5 E
XTERNAL
S
TORAGE
Generally, NewTek live productions systems provide substantial integrated storage for media used in your
productions, by means of internal and removable drives. Of course, many broadcast settings have still
larger requirements, making external storage solutions attractive. In addition, by virtue of their potential
for great capacity, fails-safe mechanisms, transfer speed, and shared access, external storage solutions can
facilitate file ingest, shared access, media updates, and more.
Large storage solutions come in many varieties, including SAN (Storage Area Network), NAS (Networked
Attached Storage) and others. Individual solutions may include dedicated MAM (Media Access
Management) implementations, or not.
In general, we recommend the use of the NTFS file system, not least because (unlike, for example, FAT32) it
properly handles files larger than four gigabytes, but also because it fully supports TriCaster and 3Play
features.
At times, though, you may prefer to employ another file system for media used for video capture or file
sharing. If so, note that it’s best if the actual “Session Volume” for TriCaster or 3Play is still NTFS-
formatted. Otherwise, links to media captured during the session that are automatically generated by the
system may fail, forcing you to expend extra effort to locate them.