NewTek TriCaster TCXD300, User Manual

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You may find Single mode your usual choice, but it can be useful to turn it off (as just described)
at other times. Perhaps a live speaker is presenting a long clip, but wants to be free to interrupt
it with live commentary at any time. Turning
Single off (while Autoplay on) works perfectly in
this scenario. The TriCaster operator can click Take or Transition freely, confident that DDR
playback will resume at precisely the right frame when he does so again.
PRESETS
Figure 52
Let’s consider one more powerful feature common to TriCaster’s media players – the Presets
Bin . This bin runs vertically down the outer edge of the DDR, Stills and Title modules, and
provides instant access to custom playlists.
More than that, presets store other information about the current state of the module –
playback position, selection status, and so on. In many ways, you can use presets as though they
are tabs that reveal even more media players.
27. Click a different preset icon, and use the Add button to populate it.
28. Switch back and forth between presets, noting as you do how various attributes are
retained.
29. Try copying and pasting playlist icons between two presets (right-click on an icon to
access the context menu containing
Cut , Copy and Paste ).
30. Notice that if a clip is playing, a Stop action occurs when you change presets.
The DDR has many more features which we’ll cover later, in Part II of this manual.