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SECTION 5.2 THE HOME PAGE
Having discussed sessions, let’s go on to consider how sessions are created, and how
you choose which one to work on. These items, along with a few other top level
functions, are found in the TriCaster’s Home Page.
This primary screen is the first thing you encounter on launching TriCaster. It is
dominated by the icon ring shown in Figure 93. When you click an icon on the ring
(such as New or Open), that item advances to the front-most position.
Hint: Alternatively, you can use the keyboard’s left and right arrow keys to cycle through
the icons on the ring.
Choosing an icon from the ring also updates the right-hand pane of the Home Page
to provide options and controls related to your choice.
For example, the first thing you will likely do on launching a new TriCaster is create
a session. In anticipation of that, the New icon is automatically pre-selected
whenever no sessions already exist on TriCaster. This results in the relevant session
options being displayed at right, as shown in
Figure 94 (Multi-standard TriCaster options
shown).
5.2.1 NEW (SESSION)
As just mentioned, clicking New on the icon
ring populates the pane at right with related
options.
Principally, for each session you must
designate (by selecting switches) your local
video standard (Multi-standard model only –
select NTSC, PAL or NTSC-J) and session
format –1080i, 1080/24p, 1080/30p, 720p,
720/30p, 720/24p, 480/30i (16:9) or
480/30i (4:3). Multi-standard models offer
PAL format equivalents.
FIGURE 94 (Multi-standard options shown)