Hello everyone and welcome to NewTek Tuesday Tutorials I am your host Richard Evans make
sure you like comment and subscribe. All right today I'd like to show you how to use
the TriCaster control panel to control the mix effect positioning and editing of your shots.
Now this can be used for both controlling shots and multiple layer mix effects or virtual sets,
super convenient so let's dive in and take a look. Alright so we're going to start off in the
TriCaster TC1 interface and let me show you how to adjust the positions of your different mix effects
or virtual set shots within the interface before I move over to the control panel side of things.
Alright so I'm going to be working with my mix effect number two which I currently have
punched up on my program output so we can take a look at it and then over here
on the interface this particular virtual set that I'm in right now only has two different
inputs to work with. So I have my input number two which is my host on a green screen which I have
keyed out and then I also have that NewTek logo in the background which is over here on buffer
number two. Alright so if I wanted to adjust that shot for example, you can see that his desk is
right here. So I have these papers and I want to get those out of the way because it looks kind of
weird. So I want to go ahead and push him a little bit down so that I don't see those papers on his
desk. So to do that let's go ahead and click on the positioning tool on my layer A and turn on the
positioning function here and then I have access to all of these different controls. My position,
zoom, rotation, cropping etc. So let's go ahead and just use my mouse to then position him down a
little bit. So I'll just use that, drag it down you can see there he goes and now those papers
are out of the shot looking pretty good. I can also zoom that shot in and out make them gigantic
or make them smaller depending on how I want to do this. So that looks pretty decent there,
I can even adjust the rotations if I want to flip him on his x-axis I can do that or y-axis, z-axis
however you want to do this here. I mean obviously that looks kind of weird for this particular shot
but who knows what kind of shots you're working with here and then I can also adjust the cropping
so the left side of it cut off half of it also the tops cut his head off if I want to do that
and then the bottom and right etc. So kind of a quick little overview of doing that,
now I also have a positioning tool in my layer B
so I'll go ahead and turn that on and then I can adjust the zoom of that shot,
make that NewTek logo bigger, smaller etc. Alright or just hit reset put it back to normal all right
so now let's move over to the control panel side of things and show you how to do that.
Alright so here is the TriCaster two stripe control panel that I'm working with here
and there's a few different ways that we can then assign what we want to be controlled by
our control surface. So the positioning etc is pretty much going to be affected by this top
right section but we're going to need to tell this top right section what we want to be controlling.
So there's two different ways of doing that, I can either assign the stripe that I want
to use to control that. So for example I'm on mix effect number two right now so I want to assign my
top stripe to mix effect number two and again to review. To do that I'll hold down delegate stripe
and then press mix effect two and now this top stripe is my mix effect number two. Now to tell
this top right portion here of what I want to control I can either click on follow stripe
which is over here in the top. Let me go ahead and zoom into that real quick so you can see.
All right so I can either hit follow stripe, so then that will then be permanently assigned
to whatever I have on my top stripe here or I can just type in a punch up the mix effect that
I want to use. So I'm just going to hit number two since I'm working on mix effect number two
and so it's kind of up to you how you want to set that up. All right so we're on mix effect
number two so now what we want to do is let's move the positioning of our layer A which is
our host on his virtual set to a different part of the screen. So to do that you would just use
one of these four up here at the top. So we have four different layers to choose from of
course on this particular virtual set I only have two sources to work with so we'll press A
and now I am able to manipulate that particular shot. Now I have these three buttons here to
choose from my positioning and scale, rotation and crop to then adjust that particular shot so let's
say that we want to move our host a little bit closer to that tv over there. So we can use our
joystick and then I can move him left and right up and down etc so let's move him over here.
There we go and now he's right next to that screen.
I can also adjust his rotation from here by clicking on R.O.T. and then either
turning my joystick clockwise counterclockwise up and down z-axis etc.
Again that looks kind of weird so we'll hit reset and that will reset only the rotation side
of things won't adjust the positioning and scale so that's kind of convenient and then I can also
adjust the cropping here. So if I move over to the right you'll see that I'm adjusting the left crop
and if I hold down the button on this joystick I can then adjust the right side. So it'll take the
opposite side and then if I move down that will adjust the top cropping and if I hold down the
button it'll adjust the bottom crop. All right cool so that's looking pretty good. All right
so now let's go ahead and adjust that screen that is on his virtual set so that is layer B
and if I click layer B here boop now I can adjust again the positioning,
rotation and cropping of that shot. So let's go ahead and just scale that up a little bit
so that NewTek logo is pretty big on screen cool and then again I can adjust the rotation here.
Let me just reset that and adjust the cropping so pretty much the exact same controls that I was
using for my a layer all right so that's just using this for the virtual set side of things.
Now let's say that we want to do something a little bit different let me jump back over
to my interface real quick and I'm going to punch up my mix effect number three
and let's bring that up to my program so I have currently four different shots on this particular
mix effect that I'm working with. You can make it a two layer, three layer, four layer ,etc. Alright
so I just have my inputs three, four, five, six layered up here and it looks like I only have
one shot here but that's because these are all maximized and sitting on top of each other. So we
want to adjust those by using what we did before so again let's go ahead and instead of saying
follow stripe because I'm currently assigned to my mix effect number two on that stripe
I can either reset that but let's make it easier on ourselves. I can just hit three and now I am
on my mix effect three. So now what I want to do is I am going to grab my a layer here and let's
adjust the positioning of that. So let's go ahead and scale her down a little bit do it that way and
check it out so now my a shot is a little bit smaller and now I can move that around screen.
So let's say we'll put her in the top left we'll do a little brady bunch effect here kind of thing
all right now this is going to take a little bit to manipulate here and I won't waste your
time as I try to get this perfect so let's just kind of do this a little messy and
now let's go ahead and grab our layer B and we'll do the same thing we'll scale them down
put them in the top right corner here and again you can mess around with this
and make it as nice and neat as you want now let's go to layer C we'll do the same thing
scale her down bring her to the bottom left she's a little small.
All right that's looking decent all right and then we'll go to layer D
and scale that one down and do the same thing bottom right corner alright so cool
we have ourselves a nice little brady bunch show here hey check it out all right! So of
course that's not quite perfect let's see you can move player a down a little bit.
Adjusted all right sorry I won't be a perfectionist about this for today's example
but you get the idea. All right so I went ahead and just did all that again you can adjust the
cropping and rotation of these individual shots but check this out here's something even more
fun that you can do with this. I was doing all of those layers individually but I can
select all of them at the same time as well so for example let's go ahead and just grab four fingers
mash on layers A B C and D and now I have control over all of those layers at the same time. So
for example I'm going to click on rotation here and then we can just make them all spin
like this, go back the other way reset it I can adjust all the cropping of them at the same time
too. So I can take up all their left sides all the right sides etc using the exact same controls.
I can scale them up and down if I need to, however I want so that makes things
really convenient whenever you want to start adjusting your shots accordingly
and again play around with these do what you want make your show look unique it doesn't have to be
a brady bunch shot like this you can flip these things around have something fun and unique just
depending on how you want to make your show. You are creating art after all just to remind you,
so this stuff is pretty cool and fun to play with and I highly recommend checking
that out the control panel makes things super convenient and easy to adjust your different shots
within your virtual sets or your mix effects. So as you can see using the control panel to
control your mix effect layers is a quick and easy way to make your shots look top-notch. Now
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