iVGA™ Expands Your Production Flexibility
In today's fast-paced environment, your live production may include a wide variety of assets: Web pages, graphics, slide shows, spreadsheets and more. Often these assets reside on a computer external to the TriCaster.
NewTek iVGA™ application adds connectivity and flexibility to your TriCaster production, allowing you to import screenshots from Windows or Mac computers across a local network. Simply launch the iVGA file on the supporting computer and provide a network or hub connection to TriCaster.
iVGA not only imports the new asset, but seamlessly adds the computer screen as an external video source on the switcher. This gives you the benefit of smoothly fading between live cameras and computer screens without the need for anything more than a network or crossover cable and a USB thumb drive to launch iVGA on the client computer.
Most TriCaster models allow up to three client computers to be used in a presentation. These additional computer sources can be readily selectable using the External tab.
Client Control
iVGA is controllable on the client computer where it is running, offering several benefits:
- On a dual-screen computer, choose which screen to send to the TriCaster
- Magnify portions of the screen and have the selection follow the cursor
- Users can invoke Privacy mode, blocking that screen’s view on TriCaster if they are working on something not relevant to the meeting
iVGA Benefits
- Seamlessly incorporate computer displays with live video
- No software to install – just launch the application on a Windows or Mac machine
- Multiple computers available as sources
- Provides flexibility for the presenter to control the pace of their presentation while the TriCaster operator focuses on delivering the live production
- Avoids the need for scan converters at on-location productions
