Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of NewTek Tuesday Tutorials. I am your host
Richard Evans, make sure that you like, comment and subscribe. Today I want to show you how
to control your DDR presets using the TriCaster control panel. The TriCaster features two or four
DDRs for media playback depending on the model that you own and in my experience these DDRs can
get filled up pretty quick. So using the preset bands you were able to organize the various clips
to use in your broadcast that way commercials stay in one bin various clips and another instant
replays in another etc and the TriCaster control panel has a very very simple way of being able to
cycle between these presets with a literal touch of a button. So let me show you how it's done son.
All right so here we are in the TriCaster TC1 interface and on this particular system I have
two DDRs, DDR1 and DDR2 here on the left and the right if you have a VMC1 or a TriCaster
2 Elite you are going to have four different DDR players and this is where you can go to start to
bring in different clips to your show so perfect for instant replays, commercials,
some ads, different clips you want to bring in etc. So I use these all the time and my DDRs get
filled really quick because I have a bunch of content that I do for some of the shows that I
would do. So we have a bunch of different presets to keep those organized now for today's example
I'm going to focus specifically on DDR1 over here on the left and if I grab my mouse over here to
the left of the screen you'll see that I have these 12 different presets to choose from and
I currently have them filled in with some content. So my DDR1 bin has some clips from Las Vegas here
DDR2 is going to have some modes of transportation you know hot air balloon, bumper cars, london bus,
monorail. I don't know how y'all get around but that's my particular mode of transportation.
Anyways and then I also have on my third bin these are just some animations and then on my fourth
banner just some clips that I have from previous shows of my hosts etc. Okay so if I wanted to,
if I'm in the middle of a show doing all this you know having to go through and switch between these
different banks. Well I gotta grab my mouse go over here find what I'm looking for blah blah
blah. Okay now the TriCaster control panel makes this super simple so let's go ahead and take a
look over there at the TriCaster control panel. So here it is ta-da again looking magnificent
so what we need to be looking at on the control panel is going to be over here in the far bottom
right section which is where we have our media players playback controls. Okay so you'll see that
I have my buttons here from my different media players and then over on the top I have buttons
for preview preset sorry previous preset and next preset. So what that allows me to do is if I'm in
my media player number one all of these controls now are going to be
controlled by what I have determined up here same thing go to number two yada yada. Okay or I can
use them in conjunction but you know for today's example we're just going to stick with DDR1.
So say that we're going through and we're doing our show, I'm you know just back in my interface
I'm switching between my different hosts here going back between number three and number five
so I'm just going back and forth between those and what I want to do is initially
that now start to bring in like a DDR clip. All right now currently I am in my
Las Vegas eclipse section so if I want to go and move over to my modes of transportation preset
bin let me go ahead and hit my next preset boom and now I am in there and now all I have to do
is bring up my DDR on my preview go ahead and do a transition over to that and there we are.
Check it out pretty cool. All right and now while that clip's playing let's say that I want to move
over to the next bin over to my animations all I can have to do now is hit the next preset button
and boom I am there over in the animations or skip over to number four with my clips or go previous
back to my Las Vegas clips and we are good to go and that's pretty much all you need to
do to be able to go through and get to these really quickly. Now again on the
TriCaster 2 Elite and VMC1's I have access to my media players three and four by clicking on those.
This allows you to quickly move between your different presets without having to go through
and do that within the TriCaster interface right away. So as I recommend as usual play around with
it and have some fun. Yeah control panels coming in clutch yet again these things are awesome and I
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much for watching, I'll see you again real soon for another edition of NewTek Tuesday Tutorials.