TriCaster® TC1

Description

TriCaster® TC1 is the epitome of innovation in the industry, representing a hallmark of continuous advancement. Meticulously designed to align with modern workflows, it boasts hundreds of advanced production features to meet all your current and future video production needs.

Features

• HD/3G/4K UHD 60p Switching, Streaming and Recording：Provides robust support for different formats and resolutions
• Native Software-Driven Technology：Maximizes production capabilities and flexibility with advanced software integration
• Comprehensive Camera Coverage and Multi-Source Video Mixing：Includes support for 16 external inputs and 4 mix/effects (M/E) channels, offering exceptional multi-source video mixing capabilities
• Studio-Grade Skype® Video Calling：Combines multi-channel Skype TX software for professional-grade Skype video calls
• Integrated Media Server：Enables real-time playback, replay and editing without the need for additional hardware
• Multi-Channel Video On-Demand (VOD)： Supports post-production and file backup, recording in various resolutions such as QuickTime and H.264
• Dual-Channel Streaming：Real-time publishing to platforms like Facebook Live, Microsoft® Azure®, Periscope, Twitch and YouTube™ Live
• Social Media Sharing：Instant sharing to platforms like Facebook, Imgur, LinkedIn, Twitter, Vimeo and YouTube, enhancing audience engagement
• Powerful Automation：Achieved through customizable macro commands, animated compositions and flexible control options for streamlined production workflows
• Advanced Audio Mixing：Features multi-source configuration and control with professional-grade DSP, including a 4 x 4 x 4 channel router
• Creative Functions：Includes multi-line mixing effects, dynamic graphics/transitions, chroma keying and live virtual sets

What’s included

Complete Production, Like Never Before.

Real 4K Ultra HD

To meet the required paragraph length, it is specified that the TriCaster TC1 supports 4 channels of 3G/SDI input and output. In addition to directly connecting with industry-standard HD/SDI inputs and outputs, it can also output 4K UHD video through quad link. This allows users to produce 4K UHD content while utilizing existing HD production technology. By pairing with NewTek NC1 input and NC1 I/O modules, the TriCaster TC1 can support up to 16 channels of 4K UHD/60P video input and 8 channels of output, providing a richer array of production materials. Meaningless filler text, please adjust as necessary.

Built–In Video Servers

The TriCaster TC1 features powerful built-in multimedia playback functions, allowing users to edit, replay and perform slow-motion playback on different media directly without any plugins, significantly reducing post-production processing. In terms of formats, the TriCaster TC1 supports importing a wide range of audio and video formats, including AVI, H.264, MPEG, MOV, WAV, AIFF and various bitmap formats, making it convenient for broadcasting use.

Multi-Channel Skype

Engage with remote guests via real-time Skype® video calls. TriCaster TC1 is the only production system that integrates Skype TX software, enhancing real-time interaction with broadcast-quality video and balanced audio for production ready conversations, interviews, and reports, accessible on any device.

Recording and Replay

Capture from all angles, record multi-channel full-resolution video in QuickTime® or H.264 file formats. Whether archiving master edits to the content library, capturing raw footage for post-production, temporarily storing production miscellany and program materials for on-demand use, or filming live highlights for instant replay, TriCaster TC1 can easily handle multiple professional tasks without additional expenses.

Control in the Palm of Your Hand

With TriCaster TC410 Plus and TC1's NewTek LivePanel, more people can easily control the live production process. It offers customizable user interface configurations, providing the resources you need to capture video via a web browser.

Next-Level Automation

Record common actions as macros to enhance production convenience. Simplify complex sequences with a single operation when they are too intricate to execute in real time. Utilize MIDI, camera hotspots and PTZ camera functionality for a smoother production workflow.

Phenomenal Creative Elements

TriCaster TC1 includes over 200 transition effects, including various 3D effects. Users can design custom animated transitions using 2D and 3D graphics software and quickly add lively animated transition effects with the optional Animation Store Creator tool.

Studio-Grade Video Tools

Perfect your program with configurable color correction tools, 3D object positioning, and smooth edge cropping. Apply picture-in-picture effects with optional borders. Create new composite scenes with keying and fill for different foreground and background elements. You can even real-time dynamic track, reflecting live images on moving and stationary props. Experience these and many more exciting features.

Spectacular Live Chromakeying

TriCaster TC1 offers broadcast-grade keying quality, allowing you to set chroma key for each video channel. It provides detailed chroma key parameters for fine-tuning and allows you to set crop areas to remove unwanted parts of the frame. Whether using green screen or blue screen, it delivers satisfactory keying quality.

Your Workflow. Interconnected.

NewTek’s NDI is designed on a complex foundation, enabling the use of standard networks (local Ethernet) to send and receive large amounts of information, forming an NDI shared video internet. With NDI's unprecedented encoding efficiency and performance, standard networks can quickly send and efficiently match multiple synchronous, high-quality, ultra-low latency real-time video media signals.

Store and Serve

Add files to the built-in video player for production and automatic replay, including automated playlists and highlight reels for real-time editing. Supported by SNS technology, NewTek remote storage makes your workflow more complete. The remote storage system features optional chassis and network connectivity expansion, offering a powerful, expandable shared storage solution tailored to meet the high-capacity and high-performance demands of today’s real-time production environments, adjustable as needed for media requirements.

Multi-Source Video Mixing

TriCaster TC1 features 4 channels of 3G/SDI input and output, seamlessly connecting to industry-standard HD/SDI inputs and outputs, output 4K UHD video via quad link. This allows users to produce 4K UHD programs while utilizing existing HD production technology. With NewTek NC1 input and NC1 I/O modules, TriCaster TC1 supports up to 16 channels of 4K UHD/60P video input and 8 channels of output, providing richer production materials.

Stream Encoding Output and Live Broadcasting

TriCaster TC1 offers built-in real-time network streaming, providing 2 independent adjustable output streams with different encoding and resolution settings and simultaneously saving streamed videos to provide the best viewing experience for cross-platform audiences. It supports Adobe Flash Stream, Windows Media Pull, Windows Media Push and can connect to streaming websites for direct LIVE video publication, including Facebook Live, Microsoft Azure, Twitch, YouTube Live and other service providers.

Dual-Channel Live Streaming

Premium Performance, Choice Control

The TriCaster TC1SP Control Panel provides powerful, professional control within a space-saving frame, enhancing production workflows in studios, on-the-go, or anywhere else.

Live Sound Experience

TriCaster 1 Pro features a built-in multi-track 4-channel audio mixer. Even without large mixing equipment on-site, it can handle audio mixing for broadcasts. It supports Line, SDI Embedded audio options and offers independent control for Master, Stream and AUX outputs, meeting various audio adjustment needs. Enhanced independent control for each input audio source is provided by a 4×4 router, offering complex and flexible mixing routing functions. Four NDI output audio sources (Master, Aux 1, Aux 2, Aux 3) can be routed. It also supports the Dante network audio protocol, integrating IP workflows.

Real-Time Monitoring and Multiviewers

TriCaster TC1 offers thoughtful MultiView monitoring with up to three display outputs. Each MultiView output can be independently controlled and switched to full-screen preview, featuring HDMI/DVI/Display Port interfaces for easy connection to various displays, projectors, or large billboards. MultiView offers multiple configuration modes, allowing you to freely plan your desired viewing layout. MultiView displays can show volume meters, dual clocks, waveform monitors, safety frames and alpha key masks, making it highly flexible and practical.

World-Class Live Virtual Sets

Save on production costs without sacrificing production value. Using LiveSet technology, TriCaster can transform your unique ideas into professionally designed virtual environments. It features multi-angle virtual camera movements, real-time light reflections, impressive transition effects, dynamic lens flares and stunning augmented reality effects, seamlessly blending the virtual world with reality.