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LOCAL CONTROLS
Let’s begin our exploration of switching with local controls and the Background (BKGD) layer.
Figure 48
1. Select Camera 1 (or a Media Player) on the Switcher’s Program row.
2. Select Camera 2 (or a different Media Player) on the Preview row.
3. Click the All Monitors tab, and notice that the red and green highlighted titlebars
conform to the selections you just made.
4. Click the local Take button for the BKGD layer (Figure 48).
a. Camera 1 is removed from Program Out .
b. Camera 2 (previously the Preview row selection) moves to Program output.
c. The Camera 2 button is now lit up on the Program row.
d. The Camera 1 button is lit up on the Preview row.
e. The red and green monitor titlebars have been swapped.
5. Now click the local Auto button for the BKGD layer . The Program and Preview row
selections swap again, but this time, rather than a simple (and instant) Cut , the change
employs the currently selected transition – by default, a Fade .
6. The icon for the current Transition for the BKGD layer has a gold border in the
Transition Bin at right. Click a different icon to select a different transition, and click
Auto again.
7. To replace the current transition in the Transition Bin with a different one, follow these
steps:
a. Click the button with the triangle and transition name on it.
b. Select Browse in the drop-down menu that opens, and choose a new transition
from the many supplied with TriCaster (Figure 49).