Newtek TCXD860U850 - TriCaster 860 Trade Up from 850

TriCaster 860 Trade Up from 850


The NewTek TriCaster 860 Live Video Production System features a 24-channel switcher with 8 M/Es, eight-source ISO recording, real-time multi-channel media delivery with simultaneous streaming and social media publishing, and a powerful integrated effects system.


Note: This production system does not come with a control surface.


Turnkey Solution
Based on the innovative concept of a single system to broadcast, project, stream and record, simultaneously, TriCaster 860's multiple turnkey functions do the work usually requiring racks of equipment, but integrated into a robust rackmount frame instead. Just one system replaces gear for recording, encoding, switching, submixing, playback, audio mixing, DVE, advanced graphics and titling, animation store, scan conversion, multiple channels of virtual sets, live streaming, camera automation, scopes and monitors, and social media publishing.

Facility-class Installation
With TriCaster 860's redundant power supply and multi-tiered fail-safe measures, you have industrial-strength performance and the ability to adapt to your facility or truck. All audio and video, monitoring and network connectors are easily accessible from the rear for installation in industry standard 19" rackmount configurations. Professional SDI, as well as analog connectivity, external timecode support, genlock, more-extensive format compatibility for integration with nearly any workflow, and a long list of file types allow TriCaster 860 to ease into your infrastructure and seamlessly handle your most challenging needs.

Mix-and-Match I/O
TriCaster 860 provides connectivity to prepare for any location scenario. Connect multiple cameras (up to 8) with the capability to mix and match connection types, including SDI, component, composite and Y/C; and even camera types with varying SD and HD resolutions and formats. Equally flexible outputs can send a variety of feeds to multiple destinations and displays - even send a signal to another TriCaster over the network with a network output.

8-channel ISO Source Recording
IsoCorder multi-track video recording technology combines the capabilities of literally racks of video capture equipment. This innovative technology saves loads of space, enhancing your studio with a powerful, built-in, real-time ISO recording system of all 8 camera inputs, simultaneously - right inside the user interface. Record any combination of your finished show, a clean feed, raw source captures from any camera, or more, at full resolution.

24-channel Multi-Camera Production
With the 24-channel, multi-camera TriCaster 860, you have nearly every possible live and stored source at your fingertips. It supports up to 8 cameras in any HD and SD configuration, color correction, keying, cropping, scaling, and frame sync on every input. It also features 2 digital media players for video clips (long or short form), 3 slots for graphics, titles and sounds, and 2 network channels for sharing computer screens and displays from wireless iOS devices. Now add 8 M/E banks to stage live virtual sets, create real-time compositions and presets, and submixes that can act as upstream switchers (or secondary programs out), when you need to give your big show even bigger impact.

Expanded Media Sources: Buffers and Network Inputs
TriCaster 860 gives producers instant access to even more content in real time, without adding equipment or crew. Ten still buffers and 5 animation buffers provide 15 bonus 'always on' sources. And enhanced network inputs support cloud video, streaming servers, remote cameras, remotely hosted clips, USB cameras and more, dramatically expanding content and programming possibilities without taking up a hardware input.

Audio Mixing
The TriCaster integrated multi-channel audio mixer is loaded with enhancements that raise the caliber of your shows' sound to the same professional, network quality as the visuals. Unprecedented routing, customization, control and flexibility - and further opportunities for sound configuration and delivery like simulcast audio, multi-language presentation, and mix-minus applications (such as Skype calls and phoners) - without the investment in scores of external hardware. If live control by an audio operator is what you want, you get full support for mixing from our iPad remote mixer app, the Avid Artist Mix control surface, and other third-party audio control interfaces.

Visual & Motion Effects
TriCaster 860 hosts the most powerful integrated effects engine in live production to customize your brand, even for multiple shows, with a polish that makes an impression on quality-savvy audience. From full-color, animated transitions with alpha channel and embedded audio, to imaginative elements like real-time cloth dynamics, 3D video warping and transformations with TransWarp effects and motion overlays. Create your own branded, custom effects using the included Animation Store Creator application, and real-time, multi-layered compositions with 8 M/E rows and motion effects.

Automation
Automation functions in TriCaster 860 help you experiment with more complex sequences but leave nothing to chance during a live production. Reduce on-air mistakes with macros - streamline real-time shot sequences that make the show look more sophisticated, but are too complicated to execute live and risk costly errors. Unlimited external control functions with MIDI sequencing enables show control of nearly any command, or offloading tasks to additional crew. With hotspots, talent can trigger automated sequences requiring extraordinary timing with on-camera gestures, effectively controlling a segment without an operator. And add remotely controlled robotic cameras as input sources, without the need to add camera operators.

Virtual Sets
Even if your set is really a multi-purpose room or the corner of a studio, your viewers will not only see your professional brand shine through-they'll see any world you want to create, without the high cost or heavy construction. With TriCaster 860 system's virtual sets, you can elevate your look with realistic foregrounds and live moving backgrounds. Not just high-end studio looks either: take a panoramic of any location with your smart phone, or a 3D model from any universe you create, and make it your scene using our holographic LiveSet capability, bringing augmented reality that much closer to live. Add real-time energy to any virtual set with two live sources-each with overlay, all with transitions, sounds, 3D DVEs and effects. Live camera moves and shot changes during production bring your new location to life.

Social Media Publishing
With a brief setup beforehand and the real-time grab of a shot, generate second-screen content for sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter during the live show, and extend your brand to online and second-screen platforms, or share assets to common storage locations for instant access by others. Hey, set it all up with a macro and just push a button, and you've increased your program exposure without adding equipment, personnel, or lag time.

Fail-Safes / Redundancy
TriCaster 860 provides multi-tiered redundant fail-safe mechanisms in both hardware and software. Redundant, removable power supplies and hot-swappable hard drives protect from physical interruptions. Fail-safe software monitors live performance, and video pass-through, streaming output and recording continue through unexpected error conditions.

Capacity
TriCaster 860 offers huge capacity for recorded media. Use it for storing files for use in your live productions - 5 integrated digital media players are on-hand to augment your production, on top of your 10 live and 8 virtual sources, and for ISO recording your individual camera sources for later postproduction. Need more? Swap out media drives for more capacity. Use the session library to save settings and assets for each production.

Post-production
TriCaster 860 is not just about live. It's a content creation machine. 8-channel ISO recording enables the capture of all the raw sources coming into the program, for later repurposing or re-use. And with QuickTime encoded files embedded with timecode and 4 audio tracks, your media floats effortlessly between TriCaster, Mac, and Windows platforms, and all common editing and post-production software. Our codecs for Mac and PC let you equip your entire facility to encode media assets for optimized, real-time playback.

External and Third-Party Applications
Through our third-party developer network, TriCaster 860 supports an extended set of products that work directly with the system to provide innovative solutions and workflows in several different areas of your live production, including streaming, graphics, content and controllers. Our SDK enables developers and customers to tap into the power of TriCaster functionality, add applications that enhance the production workflow, and further extend integration with standard and custom installations. And our own suite of peripheral applications and hardware control surfaces rounds out the total solution.

Virtual Camera Moves
Bring your virtual environment to life with animated virtual camera moves. Adjust shot framing on the fly with manual pan, zoom and pedestal movements, or zip from one preset shot to another without touching the camera.

2x LiveSet Shot Presets
Leagues further than just a 'start and finish' zoom position, all professional TriCasters support full pan and scan configuration, with 8 custom preset positions for all sets--and with the new live Shot Editor, presets can be modified even while live.

Live Virtual Sets
The next generation of live virtual sets included in TriCaster 860 take total advantage of our full pan and scan capabilities and position presets, and now include our most updated, more life-like template sets.

Holographic Live Virtual Sets
Create a customized virtual environment from any real-world location. Turn panoramic images taken with your smartphone, DSLR or even point-and-shoot camera into a photorealistic virtual set, using the companion TriCaster VSE 2.5 software (sold separately).

Playback from Cloud, IP, and Stream
Access video sources and content applications as video sources, with the ability to connect to Cloud-based media, IP cameras and streaming servers through network inputs.

Still & Title Buffers (10)
Access up to 15 additional media sources instantly during live production. View and manage buffer content directly inside the integrated multiviewer, including animation preview (in some models) and live title editing.

Animation Buffers (5)
Dedicate some of your new buffers for up to 5 more full-motion sources for anything animated that you want instantly available, like LiveSet backgrounds, station logos, animated graphics elements--and set them to loop, run once, move around, slow down, position anywhere, scale, and key.

De-Fielded Grabs
Stills from any input (even buffers) can be captured in a pristine, de-fielded frame for immediate use, whether in the show or published instantly.

Send Recording to Playlist
The Add to Playlist record panel command enables instant turnaround of in-show content, making recorded clips available for immediate playback from any DDR playlist.

Send Grabs to Buffer
Make the scene you've just produced available as a newly captured image source in your show. Grab and send the still image directly to a buffer and have it at your beck and call.

Playlist Editing During Playback
Easily accommodate revisions to the show rundown or new content without missing a beat by making changes and updates to media player playlists during showtime. Every preset bin can be accessed and reorganized on the fly, even playing back content from one playlist while editing on another.

Macros
Make commonly used series of commands automatic, or just simplify complex ones. Record any sequence of operations as a macro event, then trigger with a mouse click, keystroke, control surface action or MIDI button, or gesture-based onscreen hotspots.

Macro Editor
Save time reproducing your painstaking macros from scratch. Tweak to your exact specifications, editing the action, timing and order as needed, to ensure automated operations run smoothly and accurately.

Snapshots
Configure your setup of a particular scene just the way you need it for any scenario, then fire every macro action, simultaneously, to snap to it automatically, organizing and automating your show down to the finest detail.

Hot Spots
Turn on-screen areas into interactive controls and let your talent trigger macros with live motion, even run your one-person show from in front of the camera. A wave of a hand or a walk to a mark, and the next action sequence happens automatically.

MIDI Support
Make automation of your show even easier or breakout control tasks to additional crew with TriCaster's extensive MIDI support. Add one or any number of MIDI devices that fit your application and budget, assign macros to controller buttons, and provide dedicated control over video operations, even meshing them with live performance elements like sound, lighting, effects, and more.

M/E Autoplay
Increase the efficiency and accuracy of your production with instant automatic playback. Clips and content play right on cue whenever you press the applicable switcher or M/E button, meaning zero delay when taking a video or image.

Session Templates
Set up and store session settings in reusable templates to jump right to your custom configuration during pre-show activities.

MEM Slot Presets
Configure M/Es, LiveSet shots, transitions, media players and more with your most frequently used setups and content. Presets include multiple slots for instant access to your preferred assets, even while live.

Input Grouping
Use the UI to link switcher and M/E source rows together in color-coded groups to streamline your simultaneous actions on multiple sources and multiple outputs. Make instant, accurate adjustments and fewer mistakes.

UI Enhancements
Next-generation user interface standardizes workflows and conventions across all pro-level models, providing more intuitive control placement and enhanced visuals for better performance, and more efficient operation in typical control environments.

Monitoring Enhancements
Preview any source, including M/Es and Buffers, within Waveform / Vectorscope for color correction and level adjustment.

Multi-View Overlays
Individually customize each multi-view preview monitor, adjusting on the fly for fine-tuned workflow or simply for observation.

Audio Control Surface (Avid Artist Mix)
Add an audio operator to your crew to focus solely on sound. Every TriCaster supports the Avid Artist Mix audio control surface (sold separately) to provide hands-on control over audio levels and configuration options.

Audio Follow Video (AFV)
Simplify A/V setup by selecting any video source to automatically trigger the appropriate audio selection.

Stereo Output Mixes
Expand audio without adding more hardware. Pair stereo output mixes for quad audio, or split them up for multi-language production, a secondary mix, and much more. Dual auxiliary outputs, too.

Audio Routing
Every conceivable audio distribution combination with independent routing of any channel from any input, to any and all of the four audio output mixes.

Pan Control
Pan control on every channel creates a rich, layered sound experience.

Rename Audio Inputs
TriCaster makes it easy for you to keep sources straight, use your own naming conventions, and simplify adjustments.

Independent Delay
Compensate for sync issues with incoming video from mixed cameras with the ability to adjust the audio delay for every input.

Source/Output
Listen and adjust more accurately, with the ability to toggle Solo setting on or off. Audition any single source or output channel, with both exclusive and latch operation options.

PTZ Camera Control
Control robotic PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) cameras directly from the user interface, including camera orientation, zoom, focus and iris. Position presets with thumbnail preview make it easy to set up shots remotely and change angles on the fly.

Social Media Share Panel
Take over second and third screens with built-in social media sharing. Real-time publishing instantly links you with all of your social networks - like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube - so you can share, distribute, and engage instantly, even when you don't have a dedicated social media producer on site.

FTP & File Copy
Duplicate and transfer saved files and recordings for internal and external distribution, getting content to the people that need it, more quickly and efficiently.

Clip Publishing
Prepare recorded files for publishing, creating in and out points on the frames of preference, and then uploading to the desired destination for internal use or external viewing.

Still Grab & Publish
Grab stills from all inputs (including Buffers) and main outputs simultaneously, with enhanced de-fielding for better image quality, and publish immediately to social sites or post-production workflows.

Mix/Effects Banks (8)
Expand creative possibilities for your production. In Mix mode, M/Es can use program/preview transitions and overlay to create full-featured sub-mixes. In Effect mode, create multiple video layers for real-time compositing, or transform your green screen setup into an elaborate virtual set.

Network Out
Adding more flexibility to TriCaster's outputs, a configurable over-the-network destination, just like any hardware I/O connection, can be assigned a video source and independent audio channel.

M/E Submix Out
Double your output and audience opportunities by switching two shows, simultaneously, or producing a secondary feed for post-show repurposing, with the ability to output an M/E sub-mix.