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third party applications). That said, if you found a reason to, you could use it as a ‘secondary’
media player for a playlist consisting of photographs (for example)
Similarly, the Stills player is meant for still images – photos, graphics, and the like; but you are
not prevented from adding title pages to its playlist it if you like (you can even edit a title page in
Stills, just as you can in
Titles ).
Of the three media players, however, only the DDR has the capability to play video clips
(including motion titles such as scrolls). Like the other two, though, it can also host images,
audio files, or title pages.
13.2 SHARED FEATURES
The Media Players are accessed by clicking tabs in the lower 1/3 of TriCaster’s Live Desktop. Each
appears as a ‘half-screen width’ panel.
13.2.1 PLAYLISTS
The dominant feature of all of TriCaster’s media players is a storyboard-style playlist that is used
to organize media files for display during live productions. This arrangement offers large
thumbnail icons for each entry, which can quickly and easily be re-ordered using the familiar drag
and drop workflow. A
scrollbar at right accommodates long playlists.
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The playlist can even be altered during playback (of course, if the currently playing item is
removed, playback stops immediately). The
filename (with extension) of each item in the
current playlist is displayed above the thumbnails, and its duration is shown below.