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TriCaster Studio

Welcome to the next revolution in live broadcast. Welcome to the world of TriCaster STUDIO™.

Virtual sets, up to six cameras, real-time chroma keying, multiple upstream effects – welcome to the newest addition of the TriCaster™ family, TriCaster STUDIO™.

TriCaster STUDIO extends the excitement of live broadcast production via projector, television and Internet with more power and capabilities than ever before. The result is an advanced production studio powerful enough to be utilized in network environments yet still portable and small enough to fit in a backpack.

The ultimate portable production package awaits you in TriCaster STUDIO™ which extends capabilities with 6 inputs instead of 3, offering multiple upstream effects, advanced switching and virtual set support.

Features

• Live Switching of 6 cameras
• 16:9 wide-screen support
• Dual DDR playback
• Keyable DDRs
• 200+ video transitions
• Titles
• Audio mixing
• iVGA™ graphics import
• Timed Picture playback

• Live keying
• Live Windows Media® and VC1 Streaming
• Simultaneous AVI and WMV record
• Professional video editing
• Supports AVI, MPEG-2, QuickTime® and more
• Render output to DVD, iPod® and PSP®

TriCaster STUDIO Virtual Sets

What are Virtual Sets?

Virtual sets can be as simple as a photo with the host or anchor keyed over the background. This can also be quite elaborate, with the talent interacting with the room’s environment, such as reflections across the floor or desk. Virtual sets can be a post-production process, where recorded footage of the talent is rendered into the room, but this is very time intensive, having to shoot and then composite each shot.

How do live virtual sets differ?

While several companies offer software packages providing virtual sets as a post-production tool, the realm of live virtual sets has typically been quite expensive, with systems costing $50,000 and more, depending on the amount of specialized hardware required. TriCaster STUDIO provides portable, live production, and allows all six inputs to have its own camera angle in the room. Like most virtual set systems, you can cut between angles, but STUDIO lets you fade or perform 3D transitions between angles.

NewTek has dramatically improved your access to affordable virtual sets with TriCaster STUDIO™. Unlike simpler live solutions, STUDIO brings realism into your virtual set with reflections, video walls, refracted glass and more – in real-time.

Why are Live Virtual Sets important?

Cue the talent and broadcast your show. Virtual Sets give you the flexibility to use expansive, professional sets and even though your location may have limited space.

The scaling capabilities within TriCaster STUDIO let you push the talent into a wide-shot without trucking to the back of the room. This boosts production quality without requiring a sound stage and floor staff.

The explosion of Internet TV means viewers are going to expect higher production quality to keep their attention. TriCaster STUDIO lets you stream live, to a worldwide audience.

Save Time

Get it done now. Shoot for air, not for rendering later with STUDIO’s live virtual sets. This gives your talent the opportunity to interact with virtual monitors and desks.

Shooting in different studios no longer requires lengthy set-up and re-lighting.

TriCaster STUDIO sets are all designed to operate from the same camera and lighting angles.

This small, 16-pound box contains everything you’ll find in a TV live truck: switcher, titler, keyer, audio mixer, VCRs and more. This makes TriCaster field setup a snap. With all cameras having time-base correction and proc-amp adjustment, you can be show-ready in minutes.

Save Space

Save Money

Sound stages, in use since the days of silent film, are ideal places to set up, construct and shoot expansive newsrooms and show studios, but many producers are forced to shoot within much smaller spaces. TriCaster STUDIO’s integrated garbage mattes allow you to cleanly isolate your talent, regardless of peripheral clutter.

In case your facility lacks a tape room and router to assign clip playback to your video wall and the plasma monitor behind your desk…

Oh. You don’t have any of those? No problem. TriCaster STUDIO realistically inserts your talent into that environment without the construction costs or additional electronics purchases.

Integrated clip playback in STUDIO’s dual VCRs means the technical director can effortlessly roll in produced segments without the need to hire a videotape operator.

Contact your nearest dealer or New Magic to see this technology breakthrough first-hand, and you’ll soon be amazing clients as you warmly say, “Welcome to your STUDIO”.

Features

General TriCaster Features

Live Camera

Network In

Instantly incorporate live video, taking the Y/C or composite video connection from the camera and plugging straight into TriCaster's convenient front connection panel.

As soon as you plug in a camera, its video appears on-screen and is ready for use in your presentation. Quickly Connect up to three cameras for quick and compelling digital video that can then be sent to tape, to a projector or to the Internet.

Live events become much easier and faster to set up thanks to TriCaster. Advanced controls are available.

This exclusive NewTek technology is like nothing you've ever used before. Each computer runs a small application and is seen by TriCaster across the local area network.

The TriCaster producer can then choose among any of those computers, bringing it into the presentation in real time. This goes way beyond sharing graphics, though. iVGA is capable of bringing in full-screen images, animations and even video playing on the outlying computer with incredible clarity and smoothness.

The possibilities are exciting:

• A co-worker breezes into the meeting with the latest ad storyboards or initial product videos. No longer do you have to halt the meeting for him to connect his system to the projector; just plug into the room's network connection, and with his launch of iVGA, he can drive the video, while you add this to the presentation.
• Financial information can change right before your eyes. One of the presenters displays a ticker page on his computer, which can be viewed by entire group with a single click.

VCR

Picture

Streaming

Animations and edited videos greatly enhance your live production, illuminating your points with moving pictures easily worth much more than a thousand words. TriCaster offers total freedom to record, edit and playback with its Virtual VCR. Even easier to use than your VCR at home, just drop in a video clip and when you're ready to make it live, select and play it instantly. With a big, friendly button just for the Virtual VCR on the video mixer panel, cutting between clips and live cameras is a snap.

You can use any picture on computer in your live presentation.

TriCaster's Picture Player is one of several inputs to the video mixer, and can display images in full detail, with the ability to set specific playback times for each image in the list. Help your customers better understand each point by presenting supporting graphs and data.

Never again will you have to limit your audience to the people in the room.

Today's corporations are quietly discovering the competitive advantage that Internet streaming provides. Further, live streaming is more beneficial than on-demand, as viewers report stronger positive impressions when watching a live event. Let TriCaster help your key accounts, hot new leads, vendors and many others join in on your important meetings or events.

Audio Mixer

Running a presentation with live speakers and recorded footage requires flexibility and full control of audio, and TriCaster has simplified this to a few controls.

Each source (mic1, mic2, line, and VCR) has its own audio level controls and a single output volume control. Verify the quality of your signal with on-board audio meters as well as with the integrated headphone.

Each input has Balance, Equalization and Solo output. The microphone inputs also have an automated Talk Over button, to quickly reduce the volume of all other inputs, giving that microphone level priority. TriCaster PRO adds balanced audio and phantom power.

EDIT MEDIA

Bring in music or audio files through the capture panel or across the network, and bring them into your project without importing or converting anything.

TriCaster accepts .wav .MP3 and DV audio for immediate playback with control over left and right channels, a master audio slider and even a visual stereo positioner.

Overlay

Video Effects

Quickly browse through your many styles of lower or full-screen graphics, quickly replacing the stand-in text with your own, and it’s ready. Then, access any page with a click, and smoothly fade titles and text in and out.

Create as many pages as you'll need from the various pre-loaded styles in TriCaster. Custom styles can be created using any graphics program and a text editor.

TriCaster is ready-to-go with hundreds of professional transitions: wipes, peels, 3D page curls and much more can be dropped into the Transitions folder and easily arranged. All transitions serve dual duty, in the switcher and also in the real-time editor. You can choose which order the transitions will be recalled, and auto-advance to the next in line. Move to the next level of presentation technology with TriCaster. Using TriCaster VM™ you can use the transition selector to quickly dial in the effect you’d like.

Keyer

Projector Out

Broadcasters have known for years the impact of combining live images with background video and graphics, and do so by replacing an onscreen color with video, or keying. You see it every night in TV weathercasts. Key in real-time with the switcher or key it later in the editor.

Let TriCaster help bring along the sophistication of a television studio to your next presentation

NewTek TriCaster brings a flexibility and ease to presentations with three simultaneous outputs: Projector, video and Internet. With the included projector support, plug into TriCaster’s DVI digital output, and project in high resolution. Mixing video sources with technical data, live web pages and PowerPoint™ is easier than ever before, since video is scaled up to your projector’s resolution. Stop worrying about connections and extra gear. TriCaster brings everything you’ll need for a professional, top-calibre presentation.

Capture Media

DIGITAL VIDEO TOOLS: Connect a camera or deck to TriCaster, and use the streamlined capture functions begin ingesting clips for editing or live playback. Simple Start, Stop and Pause buttons make clip capture exceedingly simple.

Storyboard & Timeline

Storyboard Simplicity

TriCaster's Storyboard editor is simple enough to master in seconds, as all pictures and videos sequence one after another. This is the best place to start editing, as you can quickly re-arrange and then play to see the changes.

Timeline Power

The power of the Timeline is in the way it can create picture-in-picture effects, add titles and quickly create multiple video layers.

Powerful Editor

Easily add transitions, and your project is now ready to be utilized in several ways; output as a digital video file, send to the projector or stream to the Internet. While the Storyboard is fast and simple, this is still a very powerful editor, capable of any special effect you'll need.

• Multiple video layers
• animated titles
• Slo motion
• panning, 3D rotation, soft edges and more

Along with the hundreds of professional transitions included, you have the all the tools you need to create or modify compelling messages on-site.

FlowChart

TriCaster™ Family Comparison

¹ Inputs are selectable between line and mic impedance

Specifications

Video input

• 6 Y/C
• 6 composite (BNC)
• 6 component (BNC)

Video output

• 2 Y/C
• 2 composite (BNC)
• 2 component (BNC)

Video ingest

• 1 4-pin IEEE FireWire®
• 1 6-pin IEEE FireWire®

Audio input

• 4 balanced Mic/Line inputs (XLR or phone)

Audio output

• 2 balanced phone outs
• 2 unbalanced RCA outs
• 1 stereo headphone out

iVGA™ input

• Switch between 3 iVGA client displays

Tally

• 6 Tally light connector