NewTek TriCaster 8000 - Manual (Page 467)

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(Note that certain highly compressed video file formats cannot successfully be
played back at rates beyond 200%, even though Speed value is set to a higher
value.) See Section 11.2.3 for more.
A.3.7 DEAL WITH DDR (MEDIA PLAYER) CLIPS THAT SEEM BLURRY?
When paused or stopped, TriCasters DDRs perform motion removal (to avoid
unwanted flicker). This can make the image seem slightly blurred when paused, but
it should look perfect during playback. (Recorded static title pages look their best
when captured using the Grab function with De-Interlace turned off.)
A.3.8 GET STUBBORN CLIPS TO PLAY IN THE DDR?
First, note that TriCaster has a two minute warm-up period during which system
software initializes. During this period, frames may be dropped during playback.
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At the time of writing, a 64bit version of Quicktime for Microsoft Windows® is not
available. TriCaster provides internal support for many QuickTime file formats, but
not all of them. If a QuickTime file fails to play smoothly (or at all) in the DDR,
converting it to a friendlier format can help.
We recommend downloading and installing the NewTek TriCaster Codec Pack (Mac)
from the downloads page of your personal registration area on the NewTek website
(http://reg.newtek.com/Default.aspx). This will permit you to select from several
NewTek SpeedHQ codecs (including 32bit formats with embedded alpha channel)
from applications that render to Quicktime® formats.
Alternatively, Final Cut® users might consider M-JPEG, MPEG2, DVCPRO HD, or the
DV Quicktime codec (for SD clips only, of course) as intermediate formats.
AVI
AVI codecs are plentiful. Most are suitable for DDR playback, but a few are not. For a
given clip to play in the DDR, a corresponding 64bit codec needs to be available.
However, we strongly discourage installing ‘foreign’ codecs, codec packs and the like
downloaded from Internet sites, etc. For the sake of stability, if an AVI clip does not