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Chapter 5 THE STARTUP SCREEN
The TriCaster
®
Startup Screen is the gateway to a suite of applications as well as
maintenance and management features for both sessions and the system.
We’ll discuss each of these in the pages that follow, beginning with a review of the concept
of sessions.
The Startup Screen’s Home Page appears whenever you launch TriCaster
®
.
FIGURE 5-1
From here, you create and launch sessions, then choose what sort of operations you wish to pursue within
the current session by making a selection from an icon ring on the Session Page. Your intention may be to
begin a new live production, or to produce another episode of a live series. Perhaps you wish to prepare
some title pages for an upcoming event, or perform system maintenance.
We’ll look into each of these in turn, but first let’s consider that fundamental TriCaster concept, the session.
What is a session, and why are sessions both important and valuable to you?
SECTION 5.1
INTRODUCTION TO SESSIONS
Whenever you work with TriCaster, you provide certain information about the production environment:

What broadcast standard is used in your locale? Is it PAL, common in Europe among other places, or
perhaps NTSC, standard throughout North American regions?
 If your task includes cameras or other live sources, are they HD, SD or a mixture of both?