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Chapter 11 MEDIA PLAYERS & BUFFERS
TriCaster’s Media Players permit you to integrate video, stills and title pages into your
live presentation with simplicity and style. Preload content and display it sequentially as
a playlist, or call up individual items on demand. Media Players can even play, stop and
advance automatically in response to your Switcher operations.
Animated buffer effects can provide similar capability, but are resident in memory, and
thus best suited to short duration or looping effects. Conveniently, this makes them
perfect for many purposes, freeing up the Media Players for long form or more elaborate
requirements. Still image and title buffers (all models) provide similar advantages.
SECTION 11.1
SPECIALIZED MEDIA PLAYERS
TriCaster
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sports multiple Media Players, located in tabbed panes found in the bottom third of the Live
Desktop. Here you will find individual DDR, GFX (Graphics) and Sounds modules. (This is also where the
powerful Buffers feature is located.)
FIGURE 11-1
TriCaster’s different Media Players are essentially specialized variants of a single module, modified to suit
specific and complementary purposes. The foremost difference between players is in the file formats each
supports (and even that distinction is not rigidly adhered to, as we will see).
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Graphics (GFX) players are principally intended for display and management of title pages (whether
those based on TriCaster’s integrated titling system, or titles prepared as image files in third party
applications) or other still imagery – photos, graphics, and the like.
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The purpose of the Sound player is self-explanatory, and perhaps it is equally obvious why (alone
among Media Players) it is not represented by a Switcher row button. Sound plays back standard .wav
or .mp3 format audio files, but does not support graphics of any sort. Controls are similar to other
Media Players, except that neither Autoplay nor Speed controls are provided.
Only the two DDRs have the capability to play video clips (including motion titles such as scrolls). DDRs can
also host images, title pages, or even audio files.