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The other day I needed a few HD animated backgrounds for a project and while I've got hundreds of SD backgrounds from Digital Juice and 12 Inch Designs but I didn't have any in HD. So I fired up Google and went searching and I found a cool package and it's cheap! They're perfect for my TriCaster '850.
I thought the playback speed was a little,ok a lot, too high on some of the clips but SpeedEDIT's fine slo-mo to the rescue.
600 HD Animated Backgrounds, 300 3D Backgrounds and 1000 SD Animated Backgrounds. The package also comes with a bunch of audio loops and sound effects. Best part is it's on sale now for under $50.
Check out the
Ultimate HD Video Background Box The web site is a little cheesy (but wait! there's more!) but the content is nice. You actually buy via ClickBank so you are protected by their money back guarantee.
UStream(at UStream.tv) is a free live streaming service. It can stream from any standard windows video capture device on your system. The good news is TriCaster 2.0 has a Windows Video driver installed that will work with UStream as well as other applications. The bad news is the TriCaster user interface takes over the machine and disables all the multi-tasking features of Windows. So it was impossible to switch back and forth between the TriCaster and another application without actually shutting off the TriCaster interface.
I've solved this problem with a little program called TC Launch that you can drop onto the Admin screen and use to launch the TriCaster in a special multi-tasking mode. Now you can use free services like UStream on your TriCaster with 2.0.
A few other hints to streaming with UStream:
- Use the standard encoder not the "High Quality Encoder" I couldn't get the high quality encoder to work on my TriCaster Studio.
- Watch out for the cropping. UStream does a pretty radical crop of the TriCaster's output so if you frame normally you will trim the top of peoples heads off.
- Make sure you set the UStream audio capture to the VT audio device. It wants to default to the windows audio device.
- I had better luck with FireFox, IE crashed on be a couple of times.
I'm selling TC Launch for $10 over on
www.digarts.com you can go directly to TC Launch
here. Be sure to change the payment system to PayPal from credit card if you want to download the program immediately. You can still use a CC with PayPal. Our normal CC processing is done by hand to it can take up to 24 hours.
If you have any trouble with or have any questions about TC Launch you can email me at
jcupp@digarts.com
Important Update: The guys over at NewTek want me to make it clear that you use TC Launch at your own risk and if you have problems while using it don't go crying to tech support (they put it a little nicer than that but you get the idea). TC Launch makes no permanent changes to your TriCaster so if your application doesn't work just delete it and you're good to go.
We've picked up a new site sponsor in Host Excellence.
Digital Arts has been hosting our web sites with them for about two years now and we've had zero problems. The tech support, on the couple of occasions I've needed it, has been fast and helpful. So if you are looking for a good place to host your web site you can't do better than the guys over at Host Excellence.
As an extra bonus use DigitalArts in the promo code blank when you sign up and you'll get a free 10% increase in your bandwidth allotment. This is perfect if you're going to be hosting video clips.
Now back to your regularly scheduled blob...
...err blog...
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