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10 LIVEMATTE, LIVESET, ACTION
This chapter discusses some of TriCaster’s most interesting and
useful features, LiveMatte and LiveSet.
Combined, these two features allow you to create productions that
you can display with great pride. These cutting edge capabilities
mean your presentations can look as good as it gets, but without a
truckload of prohibitively expensive gear.
We introduced LiveMatte, TriCaster’s wonderful realtime chromakeying feature, way back in
Section 5.2.6. That section revealed that LiveMatte was an important component of the
NewTek’s revolutionary LiveSet system. LiveSet extends mundane chromakeying analogy in
wonderful ways.
A good realtime chromakey system (like LiveMatte) can seamlessly substitute a new 2D
background behind the keyed foreground – typically a ‘weatherman’ or new commentator – but
as you know, times move on.
In high-end broadcast environments these days, the (very expensive) must-have technology is
the “virtual set.” News anchors address us from lavish sets, with busy backgrounds composed of
gorgeous architecture and moving video displays, along with beautiful desks and furnishings in
the foreground -- all computer-generated.
TriCaster brings virtual set technology to the masses, with LiveSet. This astounding feature
provides not just a background, nor even just a foreground – but along with both of those, it adds
supplemental moving video displays, realistic reflections and shadows, and to top it off, supports
multiple shots. Cut between angles, and even fade or perform 3D transitions between shots.
More than this, you can just as easily live switch segments played from TriCaster’s DDRs,
switching between live talent and pre-recorded segments, all in the same virtual environment.
Alternatively, assign DDR module output to over-the shoulder displays, or show it on ‘virtual
screens’ in your ‘virtual set!’
Did we mention this was all done, not ‘in post’, but live?? And it all begins with LiveMatte.