Hello everyone it's that time again for another NewTek Tuesday Tutorial. I am your
host Richard Evans and today I'm going to show you how to use Hot Spots in TriCaster.
Hot Spots allow you to define multiple on-screen areas for different chroma keyed sources and
trigger macros automatically whenever something opaque enters that hot spot region. So let's say
that I get a bright idea. I can pass my hand over a hotspot like this to trigger a command
like bring on my downstream keyer or whatever macro you want to create.
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All right so this is the TriCaster TC1 interface and I have my production broken down very simply
right now. We're really going to only be looking at two different sources here which is input
number one which is me on my green screen that I currently have keyed out and then also my DDR2
over here and that's just my clip of the little light bulb. Now if I take a look over my program
window, what I was doing previously was I have my down screen downstream keyer number four attached
to this ddr2. Which I positioned right above my head so if I bring that on screen real quick like
for example use a transition like that.. it will appear above my head like I have a bright idea and
then I can take that off screen using the same transition. But instead of doing that by hand I
want to do it by "hand" by my hand and using the hot spots. So first let's go ahead and go and
take a look at input number one here. I'm going to right click on input number one first of all and
turn on my overlays to bring on my hotspot marker so that we can see them all the time. So you can
kind of see them a little bit here they're faded and small there's eight different ones and we can
access those by clicking on the gear icon on my input number one and going to my automation tab
and then you'll see on the second choice here hotspots will turn that on. And now I have access
to the eight different hotspots that are available to me and if I put check boxes next to them you'll
start to see that my input number one starts to light up with all of these different colors
going around my input number one. Now again this only works with a keyed source so keep that in
mind. I'm gonna go ahead and just deal with my let's see which one is closest to my left hand
here this purple one here all right. So that's number seven so let's go ahead and just turn all
of these other hotspots off. All right now you can still kind of see them with your within this input
because I have the overlay on but uh what I want to do now is that region is really small. So let's
go ahead and expand that by using this magnifying glass here and we'll make that a little bit bigger
see that there we go all right and let me move it up here just a little bit to get it out of the
way. So right now you'll see that the the hot spot that I have is just a little box and whenever I
bring a source that's opaque through that particular source it will light up ... so
I'll move my hand for example and now it has turned active. And when I take my hand off of it
it becomes inactive so whenever the box is full that means it's active, empty inactive. Okay now
we can go through and assign those inactive and active statements to a macro. So to do
that we'll go into the macro automation tool here for this particular hotspot which is number seven
and this gives me the option to now select from my drop down list the different macros that are
on my system now these can be ones that are just your system commands that which is what i'm going
to use today. Or you can build complicated macros to do whatever you want. So this can be used for
firing off downstream keyers, for turning on and off recordings, switching different camera inputs
or even different media sources it's really up to you how you want to do this. But I'm going to keep
this simple today and just focus on my downstream keyer so I'll go up to my system commands here
and I will do a perform take for my downstream key or number four for whenever
this particular macro is active and then when is inactive. Let's go up to my system commands
and I will do a perform auto meaning that it will fade off screen instead of doing a cut. Alright
so now we can see here that I have my little purple box and now all I have to do is simply
put my hand over into that area and let's go ahead and I'm going to go over to my program window and
do this and check it out. Put my hand up in the hot spot and boom there's my light bulb and that
where that's where it will remain until I take my hand off and then it will fade away so. Let's go
ahead and do that again and just take a look and keep an eye on the downstream keyer number four
here. So I'll go ahead and bring my hand up again and boom it is active and then get my hand out
of that purple box and it fades away. Pretty dang cool. Hot spots are a great way to trigger
TriCaster commands by your on-screen talent or if you're running a one-man show with a literal
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