NewTek TriCaster Advanced Edition User Guide - Manual (Page 296)

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FIGURE 328
This virtual multi-monitor effect depends on a single clip (played from a DDR) which is itself a montage
composed of a number of different looping video clips composited into a single frame (e.g., Figure 329).
FIGURE 329 FIGURE 330
Hint: A template clip (Figure 330) is supplied in the Clips>NewTek folder (as are several looping sample clips). You
can use the template as a guide to prepare similar clips with content positioned correctly for use with the Nightly
Show set, using in the software of your choice.
To configure the effect:
1. Assign your talent shot to Input A in the M/E tab
2. Put the looping montage clip you prepared in a DDR, and select that DDR as Input B.
This particular set was designed to work with all TCXD model TriCasters, including those supporting just two
primary sources. For TriCaster 8000 (only), which adds C and D inputs in M/E panels, the set has been
updated as follows to provide more ability:
 Input C targets the ‘virtual ticker’. Knowing this, you might for example use Input C’s positioner to
compose a LiveText feed (from a Network input) to correspond to the lower right quadrant of the
template clip (as seen in Figure 330 above). This would then be mapped to the ticker, allowing you
to update the virtual ticker remotely.
 Input D is mapped to the virtual ‘control room monitor displays’. Position another source to conform
to any of the numbered input areas of the template clip to replace the corresponding ‘screen ‘in the
virtual control room. This allows you, for example, to send live video switched in another M/E to one
of these monitors.