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TriCaster Studio

Live Production System
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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 provides live broadcast production to television, projection and internet with more power and capability 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, 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®

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INTERFACE

1. Live Production Screen

Allows one-person control of an entire, multi-cam production, Plug in your cameras and sound sources, then go live with three simultaneous feeds to video, projector and internet.

2. On-Screen Monitors

On-screen monitors let you pick shots with confidence, displaying the dual video clip players, computer input, signal monitor, preview and your live program output.

3. Advanced Video Switcher

Total control over three video banks containing six camera inputs. Select a live output, preview a second source, and choose a third for picture-in-picture, double-box and LiveSet™ effects.

4. One Button Internet Streaming

Push or pull your live stream directly to the web. ONE-BUTTON RECORDING immediately captures your video production to hard drive in a high-quality video file.

5. Live Virtual Sets

The flexibility of expansive, professional sets even though your location may have limited space. With live multi-camera scaling you can show your talent in a wide-shot without trucking to the back of the room.

6. Video Transitions

Add dynamics and impact to your production with 200+ broadcast-quality transitions, including cross-fades, wipes, pushes and real-time 3D.

7. Live Titles

Live Titles give you that broadcast look with graphics, titles and animated overlays on top of your live video.

8. Audio Mixing

Complete control over microphones, line inputs and clip playback levels.

9. Production Panel

pSix powerful tools for professional productions—such as adding new titles “on the fly” arranging video clips to auto-play on cue, color matching cameras, setting up chromakey mattes, double-box effects, virtual sets and more.

 

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.

 
     
     
 

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.

 
     
     
 

How do 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.

 
     
     
 

Save Space

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

 
     
     
 

Why are 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 Money

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.

 
     

SPECIFICATIONS

     
 

VIDEO INPUT

6 Y/C

6 composite (BNC)

6 component (BNC)

 
     
     
 

VIDEO OUTPUT

2 Y/C

2 composite (BNC)

2 component (BNC)

 
     
     
 

AUDIO INPUT

4 balanced Mic/Line inputs (XLR or phone)

 
     
     
 

AUDIO OUTPUT

2 balanced phone outs

2 unbalanced RCA outs

1 stereo headphone out

 
     
     
 

VIDEO INGEST

1 4-pin IEEE FireWire®

1 6-pin IEEE FireWire®

iVGA™ input Switch between 3 iVGA client displays

 
     
     
 

TALLY

6 Tally light connector