TriCaster PRO™ provides a complete portable studio for the professional producer with the ability to mix component, composite and S-Video camera sources. Produce your show with network style virtual sets, balanced audio, an integrated character generator, broad file format support, increased storage and much more.

Broadcasters, sports teams, corporations, schools, media ministries and many others have come to rely on the award-winning TriCaster PRO™ for portable live production and live web streaming.

• LiveSet™ technology that makes it possible for you to turn a very small space into a larger than life network style studio
• Transition to live double-box effects. For example, show both your in-studio talent and remote reporter sharing the screen
• Over 20 hours of video storage for video playback during live presentations and for archiving your live presentations
• Full support for both 4:3 and 16:9 broadcasting giving you the option of delivering your program in the traditional TV format or film aspect ratio
• LiveMatte™ technology makes it easy to create clean chroma keys for your talent to be displayed in the live virtual sets
• With NewTek’s iVGA™ up to three Mac or PC’s on the same network with your TriCaster can be added as inputs for your TriCaster live production
• Live overlays support text, picture and animated titles with alpha channel to provide depth and dimension to your graphics
• VGA output to projector, with image enhancement controls provide the best quality image to an in-house audience
• Edit Media is now optimized with the SpeedEDIT™ 1.5 engine providing the ability to edit HD footage, along with render support for Mac, iPod, MPEG-4, Flash and more
• 200+ different effects allow you to transition from one camera or source to another to customize your production
• File format support has been extended for live and post production to include MPEG and QuickTime for greater versatility in program delivery
• Character generator provides the ability for you to create your own custom titles, motion graphics, scrolls and crawls
• For complete versatility and reliability connect Y/C sources using either 4-pin or dual BNC connectors
• In-field system recovery provides on-location confidence at any production

What is LiveSet?
Up until now virtual set technology has been complicated and expensive. LiveSet™ allows you to achieve the look of a sophisticated studio setting, virtually, within a very small studio space and without the need for external equipment because LiveSet is integrated into every TriCaster PRO™, TriCaster STUDIO™, TriCaster BROADCAST and VT[5]™ system. With lights, a simple camera set-up, and a green or blue backdrop your on camera talent can be placed in any one of the LiveSet virtual sets. The proprietary technology in LiveSet makes it possible for you to have multiple camera angles and to change distance from close-up to midway to a wide shot without having to move your cameras. LiveSet also provides the ability to further customize your production by adding video, still imagery or graphics to monitors featured in the LiveSet virtual sets.

What makes it special?
What sets NewTek LiveSet technology apart from the rest is that it doesn’t require you to make a significant investment in software, specialized hardware, a crew to operate it or a massive space to accommodate the cameras and lighting rigs. Unlike other systems, LiveSet includes a background and a foreground image automatically designed to be viewed from three different angles. For every camera connected to the system, LiveSet allows you to change each camera shot virtually, transition from close-up, to medium, to medium-wide to wide angle shots in real time, without moving the camera or changing the set up in any way. LiveSet lets you accomplish everything live with complete realism, including reflections, glass refraction, shadows and more.

SPECIFICATIONS

Video input

• 3 Y/C
• 3 composite (BNC)
• 3 component (BNC)

Video output

• 1 Y/C
• 1 composite (BNC)
• 1 component (BNC)

Audio input

• 2 balanced Mic/Line inputs (XLR or phone)
  
• 1 stereo line in

Audio output

• 1 stereo line out (phone)
  
• 2 unbalanced RCA outs
  
• 1 stereo headphone out

Video ingest

• 1 4-pin IEEE FireWire
• 1 6-pin IEEE FireWire

iVGA input

• 1 Ethernet network connection

How do you take a product that is already in a league of its own and make it even more powerful? I don't know how they do it, but the folks at Newtek keep making TriCaster the world's best portable digital mixing and streaming solution.

By far and away the coolest new feature in TriCaster Pro is the virtual set technology. That's right; you can instantly superimpose your talent into virtual sets with support for multiple camera angles. To say these virtual sets look good and professional is an understatement. They are stunning and the quality of the keying is superb.