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Administrator Mode options are grouped under several headings, as discussed next.
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ROWSE
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Web – Opens the default system Internet browser.
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Files on Disk – Opens a system file window.
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YSTEM
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TILITIES
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Register TriCaster – TriCaster shows a watermark on output before registration, so we encourage you
to register early. Among other reasons, doing so will serve to identify the unit to NewTek as yours in
case of theft, and will also allow you to check for software updates that may have been recently
released. (The steps in the registration process were outlined back in Section 3.2, so we won’t repeat
them here.)
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Update TriCaster – NewTek may periodically provide software updates for your TriCaster. Updates
can enhance performance, security or even add useful new features. If TriCaster is connected to the
Internet, clicking Update TriCaster takes you to the Updates and Downloads webpage where you can
locate the most recent software version.
Having done so, you can download and run the Auto Updater for the new version, or use the
Download Tool option, which allows you to store the related files on another system for later transfer
to your NewTek live production system.
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Defragment all Drives
Over the course of lengthy use, data on hard drives devoted to audio and video storage tends to
become fragmented, which degrades playback performance. Defragmenting will correct this
condition.
You could think of your hard drive as being like a shelf in your library. As time goes along, the shelf
fills with books. Some are quite large, others smaller – just as TriCaster media files may be larger or
smaller.
As time goes along, you decide to remove books you have
finished using from the shelf, in order to make room for new
additions. You remove a book here, another there, opening up
gaps between the remaining books.
This makes some shelf space available by creating gaps
between the remaining books. Sadly, another large new book
may be too big to fit in any one of the gaps.
A foolish librarian might tear the new book into smaller
sections, just big enough to fit into the open spaces on the shelf.
This would obviously be unwise. When you wish to refer to the
book later, you will waste a lot of time locating and assembling its sections before you can access it.
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