Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of NewTek Tuesday Tutorials. Thank you so much
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Now today I'd like to show you how to use the replay functions inside the TriCaster 2 Elite.
Now this system allows you to record multiple mixes and individual video sources and also
allows you to create instant replays to play back with just the touch of a button. So let's take a
look and show you how it's done son! Behold the TriCaster 2 Elite interface this is where we're
going to go to show you how to set up an instant replay today and I have a very simple setup for
today's broadcast. I have my inputs number one two and three coming in as my basketball games
over NDI and then on my fourth preview window here I have my DDR1 set up so that I can monitor
the different replays that I'll be capturing here and that'll make sense here in a second
so let me go ahead and show you how to first how to have the TriCaster record and replay the iso
inputs coming into the system. So not only can you record your mixes out of the system but you
can record individual channels as well and set those up to be instant replays. To do that let's
click on input number one's gear icon right and underneath the input setting under capture
I can click record and that will make sure that I'm recording that particular input
but then underneath that I also have an option for instant replay. So put a check box next to
that and as soon as I've done that check out input number one now I have an icon on the bottom right
of that input which basically says that this is now a replay ready input. So now let me go
down to my program in preview row and this is where things can get pretty dang interesting.
So underneath the input number one for my program row you'll see that replay icon but there's also a
play button next to that so what that means is if I hit this button here that will create an instant
replay and then automatically play it out onto my program row. So if something happened real quick
just click that button bam there goes the instant replay but let's say that we want to create
a instant replay and not play it out I have the option underneath preview to do that as
well that's what that pause button means so if I click on that one that would mean that it would
create an instant replay and then just leave it in the DDR bin and I can use that whenever I want.
Alright now I do want to mention if you're using a control surface you have another option because
I'm just showing you with the keyboard and mouse but if you're using a control surface all
you would have to do to do this exact same action would be to hold ctrl down on your control surface
and then press either the program input row here and that would create an instant replay and play
it out automatically or the preview and that would just create it and leave it in the DDR bin. Okay
so just a quick little note on that one there so the next thing I want to show you is
where to go on the TriCaster to tell it how to treat these instant replays and we'll do
that by going to the top right corner of the screen and clicking on this gear icon
for record and replay and you'll see I have three different options here so I have a replay duration
I can either set that to be three seconds five eight or ten seconds i'll leave it at eight
seconds that's a pretty good one. Then we'll go to replay speed I have a hundred percent I can
go down to twenty five percent, fifty percent, seventy five i wanna play it back in slow motion
or I could speed it up to 150, 200 etc. So that kind of gives you an idea of what we can do there
and then underneath that we have replay and DDR and that will basically just tell the TriCaster
where we want to send these instant replays once we've captured them. So for today's example
throwing them into DDR1. So I'll leave it the way it is right now all right and let me go ahead and
show you not only can we get the iso recordings of my individual channels but I can also use
instant replay on the mixes as well and to do that let's click on the program input sorry program
configuration tab go to mix number one say record mix one and instant replay and then mix number two
instant replay for that as well. Alright so just gonna do the two of these right now all right so
now let's also go through an input number two and we'll set that up to record instant replays
and input three same thing and again as soon as I've activated that you'll now see
underneath that I have those icons available to me so let's go ahead and hit record and let's
watch this game and basically we just gotta wait for something to happen so I can go through here
and just switch my game like I normally would you know bring up inputs lower thirds etc but this is
a free throw side of things so let's just wait until something actually happens in this game.
I like my input number two here that's a pretty good
shot choice so let's just watch them do their thing go team go I believe in you all right oh
steal all right well let's fast forward again until something else happens in this game.
Alright so we're back in the game got some action going pretty good oh there we go instant replay
let's throw that on our program output by clicking on this button and check it out.
Now I have an eight second clip going on here so it did go back a little bit further in time
but now I have this clip playing back on my program row nice and as soon as that
clip is done it will transition back to my shot because I have it in this mode here
and now we're back to the game. So if I want to say trim up that particular clip I can go
through on my DDR timeline here and scroll a little further in let's say to there for example
set my endpoint and now I have that clip to use however I want now that was one that I
just played out directly on to my program output but let's say that I want to just create a replay
but not necessarily have it show up on my program output. So what I could do is we'll wait for that
and instead of sitting clicking on the icon that appears in the program row i'll do it under the
preview row instead all right so let's watch this game a little bit for some action to take place
Kick it back oh oh oh yeah nice one so let's go ahead and take an instant replay of that
and create one by clicking on that icon underneath the preview row of input 2 and now we'll see in
DDR1. I now have that clip recorded so I can do whatever I want to with it now so I'm going to
go through and scrub through my timeline here in the bottom and let's say I want to start it
right about here-ish. pretty good let's set my end point right there and the out points
put about there all right so now I've changed that eight second clip into a four second clip
and let's say that I want to because I captured it at 50 but let's say
that I want to play back at normal speed. I can right click on this particular clip
go up to speed and set that to 100 and now that clip is set to 100 so I can have it play out at
regular speed. So let me go ahead and transition to that on my program output just to show it
and there's the clip three pointer bam good to go and back to the game which
is pretty dang cool. Now so I've only shown you at the moment how to grab the
individual inputs coming into the system and creating instant replays for those but again like
I mentioned earlier is I can also do that same action with our mixes and to do that using the
keyboard. All I have to do is press the number pad on my physical keyboard itself to create
those instant replays. So again you have inputs sorry you have mixes one through eight to choose
from. So all you need to do is press the corresponding number that would go with that
particular mix so if you wanted a mix number one to show up just press number one on your keyboard
etc so let's go ahead and fast forward this game and I'll show you an example.
I believe in you you can do it go team go let's make something happen. There we go
yes so let's get an instant replay of that by clicking on number one and now check this out I
have this shot that's coming from my mix it's going up and in good job everybody all right
so again that's how you could play that well man down we got that on tape too. Okay so again just
clicking on the number pad for the corresponding mix will then create an instant replay that you
will just play out onto your DDR and then you have that clip and can manipulate it however you want
after that. Now there's one other thing that I wanted to mention here is I just showed you how
to create an instant replay just real quick for your mixes but let's say that we want to
create an instant replay and then have that show up in our DDR bins kind of like what we were doing
on the preview row here so how you would do that you would actually need to write a macro for this
and there's a whole bunch of different options that you can do for this so I definitely recommend
checking out the user and automation guide to see with different options we have but just for this
particular example. Let me show you how to create a macro to make an instant replay that would show
up in your DDR without playing it automatically so we'll go to our session macros I'm going to make a
new macro here and let's just say mix one create replay okay and let's go ahead and click edit
and let me move expand the shortcut a little bit because this is where we're
going to type into this window here what we're going to put in is the macro record
underscore chop underscore no replay right and then next to this the value the value of this is
going to be the number of mixes that or whichever mix you want to use now since we are doing it on
the value side of things the numbering of this is going to be one off. so for example if you
wanted to use mix number one you would actually type in zero because that's where the numbers
for this are going to start and then mix number two would be one mixed number three would be two
and mix number four would be three you kind of get the idea here all right let me go ahead and
put that as zero so that'll be mix number one we'll click ok and then you can assign
this particular macro to any trigger uh novation launchpad etc or we can just hit play and that
will create the exact same effect here so let me go ahead and fast forward the game a little bit.
Alright so we got some action on the court here.
kicking it out going in helps get a foul to play that's good enough i'll hit the play
button for that macro and now you'll see that I have created that clip down here in my ddr1
and i can preview it over here and now we can watch this particular clip back in slow motion
at 50 so that we can know where the foul is so that's another way for you to go through
and create an instant replay using the macro side of things so a lot of really powerful
tools within the TriCaster 2 Elite to create instant replays play them back in your broadcast
and you'll be good to go. So as you can see the instant replay features within the TriCaster
2 Elite are pretty dang cool I hope this video helps expand your knowledge of NewTek gear and for
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