Expo..!

On Thursday the 19th of Feb, we were all lucky enough to attend the broadcast video expo at earls court. I think our expectations were higher than the actual event, but dissapointment aside i did manage to find something that kept me from making my lunch spread into 3 hours, and pretending to understand many items and gadgets that i have to admit were far far over my head. It'll be no suprise when i mention the TriCaster! Even though the look on he audience faces didnt encourage me to listen to the lecture, I did and actually found some of it quite interesting..

The TriCaster is a video production system, used by many familiar names such as Fox, that can output to video, projector and the Internet. It can mix up to three live cameras with iVGA input from external computers. It can also has video and picture playback using any of the hundreds of 2D and 3D transitions. The TriCaster can also overlay graphics and text and even record the whole production to a hard-drive or stream it live.. Hard to put into words i know. Many of it is still a bit far-fetched for moi.

It is used to set up many virtual news studios. The technology allows you to change backgrounds (with registered users) and also camera angles with little movement of the equipment.