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5 THE STARTUP SCREEN
TriCaster’s Startup Screen is the gateway to a suite of applications as well as
session and system maintenance and management features.
Icons in the left-hand pane of the Startup Screen provide access to numerous
functions. We’ll discuss each of these in the pages that follow, beginning with
a review of the concept of sessions.
The Startup Screen’s Home Page appears whenever you launch TriCaster™. From here, you
create and launch sessions, then choose what sort of activity you wish to pursue by making a
selection from the icon ring on the 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 do some video editing using SpeedEDIT™, to prepare some title
pages for an upcoming event, or to perform system maintenance.
We’ll look into each of these in turn, but first let’s consider a fundamental TriCaster concept, the
session. What is a session, and why are sessions both important and valuable to you?