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Today I want to show you the Event Time feature on TriCaster.
This feature allows you to use the time from your system clock
along with custom start and stop times which you can then embed into a
graphic to display on screen to your audience to say for example
let them know when your show is starting or when your the next segment of your show is going to start or stop.
Another example is say you have a confidence monitor for your on screen talent.
You can then create an on screen graphic to let them know just how much time they have left in their particular segment.
A sort of on screen "wrap it up" button
A simple and effective tool to keep your show on time.
So let's take a look.
Alright so here we are in the TC1 interface
and to access the event time feature you'll go to the top right corner of the screen
and you'll see there's a clock here and it's currently 11:38 in the morning.
and so keep in mind that this particular feature you're going to make sure your system clock is up to date or this will throw this feature all out of whack.
which you can do on the windows side but I won't take you through that here but we will just assume that your clock is configured properly here.
Alright so we will go and click on this gear icon
And from here you'll see that I have an option for indicate event time.
So let me put a check next to start here.
And lets put in a time, let's see it's about 11:39 let me give me a few minutes to show y'all some things.
So, 11:41 AM is when our event is going to start.
Ok so then I am going to go into my graphics bin here.
and let's find a lower third that has two lines here.
So I'll use Electra Blue.
And let me bring that on screen
So right now it just says line one over line one because I don't have anything in this particular title template.
But if I go into my title template here by clicking on the text field.
I can go in and start to embed some different Datalink codes.
So I'm just going to type in the percent sign which will activate my DataLink codes here.
And I'm just going to type in event and show you that I have two options here,
Which is Next Event and click Enter
So that's going to be start so that automatically because I have a check box next to that
Says that is going to be the start time and if I go to the next line and type event again
I have an option for "Time until next event"
click enter and now check it out.
So now I have a running clock here at the bottom which tells me I have that much time till the start of my program.
Which is great for showing off on screen like "ok our stream is starting"
Cuz normally whenever I do a live streaming event I will start it up a few minutes before to make sure everything is copacetic and streaming the way I need it to be.
and give my talent a few seconds or few minutes or so just to get up and running.
And then once that clock rolls up that means that it is time to go.
And I'll go ahead and fast forward this a bit to show you what it will look like if we go over that time.
Alright so we have 5 seconds left here, 4, 3, 2, 1 0 let's do this.
and now if we go over a little bit more it'll give a plus button next to it just to show you that now we're a little bit over time etc.
Ok so that's great for say showing your audience what the particular show is going to be like
and when the time of that is going to be. But another great way to use this feature is to
tell your talent on screen, whenever it's time to wrap it up
or when the next event is going to start etc.
Now keep in mind that when you are using these start and stop times
that doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't need to be the start of the event itself or the show
but you can also say for the next segment etc.
Now I'm going to show you another way of doing this and it's going to use the end time feature.
and the end will basically say this is how much time you have left in your particular segment that's coming up.
Again it's 11:42 right now let's say end here and now we'll put in 11:43 AM
ok so that's when that segment will end.
Now I'm not going to do anything to lower third here but
I am going to go over to my Mix Effect 2 because I'm going to use Mix Effect 2 as a confidence monitor
to my talent that's on screen.
So what I'll do is have a monitor on screen so tehy can see what's going on on screen
and then I can then embed in a graphic like this to where they can see what's going on.
and now you'll see all I did there was, I'm using the exact same graphic but because
I clicked on END instead of START
that that changed it to how much time they have left in their particular segment.
but let me go and I'll toggle that real quick
to the START side of things
START and see you can toggle back and forth simply by clicking the START and END buttons.
So go back to end and now it says you have 9 seconds, 8 seconds, 7 seconds, OH HURRY UP you know?
till the end of that particular segment. So a nice little wrap it up feature. or if it goes over
it gives you a plus button which means that you've gone over your time a little bit etc.
So a great way to tell your talent on screen and also your audience
when different segments will be on screen and off
and you can embed this particular datalink into any of our lower third graphics
and then size them accordingly so if they REALLY need to hurry up you can always
go into positioning and make that giant to say " HEY! YO! YOUR SEGMENT IS ABOUT TO END!" etc
So they know exactly what they are doing and keep your show running smoothly.
Now I've used this feature at several conventions
and it's been really helpful with keeping our shows on schedule
without having to do anything super complicated or use extra equipment.
I hope this video helps expand your knowledge about what TriCaster can do for you.
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