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A.3.8 CHANGE PLAYBACK SPEED FOR CLIPS IN THE DDR (MEDIA PLAYER)?
The DDR’s Speed control adjusts playback speed between 25-400%. Simply adjust the slider knob
to suit the need. (Note that certain highly compressed video file formats cannot successfully be
played back at rates beyond 200%, even though Speed value is set to a higher value.) See
Section 10.2.5 for more.
A.3.9 DEAL WITH DDR (MEDIA PLAYER) CLIPS THAT SEEM BLURRY?
When paused or stopped, TriCasters DDR s perform motion removal (to avoid unwanted flicker).
This can make the image seem slightly blurred when paused, but it should look perfect during
playback. (Recorded static title pages look their best when captured using the
Grab function
with De-Interlace turned off.)
A.3.10 GET STUBBORN CLIPS T O PLAY IN THE DDR?
First, note that TriCaster has a two minute warm-up period during which system software
initializes. During this period, frames may be dropped during playback (see Section 6.5.1).
QUICKTIME™
At the time of writing, a 64bit version of Quicktime™ for Microsoft Windows™ is not available.
TriCaster provides internal support for many QuickTime file formats, but not all of them. If a
QuickTime file fails to play smoothly (or at all) in the DDR, we recommend converting it to a
friendlier format.
Final Cut™ users might consider M-JPEG, MPEG2, DVCPRO HD, or the DV Quicktime codec (for SD
clips only, of course) as intermediate formats. In some cases you might be successful using
SpeedEDIT to convert QuickTime files that fail in the DDR (SpeedEDIT’s Quicktime codec support
is more extensive).
AVI
AVI codecs are plentiful. Most are suitable for DDR playback, but a few are not. For a given clip
to play in the DDR, a corresponding 64bit codec needs to be available. However, we strongly