Lesson 1: System Administration

1. Accessing the Admin mode
2. Preventing TriCaster auto-launch at Windows startup
3. TriCaster Options
4. Routine Maintenance
5. Configuring the network
6. File storage
7. Troubleshooting

Lesson 2: Streaming

1. Creating a custom streaming profile
2. Working with Flash or Windows Media formats
3. Push versus pull mode
4. UStream setup example from start to finish

Lesson 3: General Operation

1. Purpose of the major interface tabs
2. Basic switching
3. Customizing the DVE bank
4. Working with video and audio clips
5. Using iVGA sources
6. Calibrating camera sources
7. Setting up chroma key
8. Setting up live capture
9. Choosing a path
10. Selecting the appropriate capture profile
11. Recording live segments

Lesson 4: Virtual Sets (TriCaster PRO and higher):

1. LiveSet Creator Installation
2. Preparing foreground and background images in Adobe Photoshop
3. Locating the correct save path
4. Differences in terminology between TriCaster and LiveSet creator
5. Merging images to create LiveSet effects
6. Creating mutiple shots per scene
7. Creating multiple views per shot
8. Using Double Boxes
9. Using head-to-toe shots
10. Using close ups and virtual zooms

Lesson 5: Edit Text Mode

1. Working with multiple pages
2. Loading and saving files
3. Basic tools and the workspace
4. Using style presets
5. Importing images from external graphics software (such as Adobe Photoshop)

Lesson 6: Capture Media Mode

1. Setting the capture path
2. Organizing footage
3. Selecting a capture source
4. Using the DV transport controls
5. Recording

Lesson 7: Control Surfaces and Accessories:

1. Working with TimeWarp
2. Using the TriCaster VM
3. Differences between LC-11 and TriCaster VM
4. Using LiveText

Lesson 8: Introduction to Editing

1. Importing clips into a project
2. Ripple insert and delete
3. Inherit and replace
4. Using the storyboard to organize media
5. Grouping clips into subprojects and organizing project structure
6. Saving and loading subprojects

Lesson 9: Navigation and Playback

1. Locating timeline elements in the storyboard
2. Focusing the timeline on storyboard contents
3. Focusing on a single clip
4. Zooming in and out with the keyboard
5. Zooming interactively with the mouse
6. Moving to a specific timecode location
7. Scrubbing the timeline
8. Starting and stopping playback at normal speed
9. Using jog/shuttle for greater accuracy and control
10. Moving frame by frame

Lesson 10: Advanced Trimming Techniques

1. Using the Selected Clip Properties panel
2. Using the mouse to set in or out
3. Using the keyboard to make frame accurate edits
4. Ripple trimming
5. Limitations of timeline ripple mode
6. Using time stretch
7. Interior edits to change timing or pace
8. Slip and Slide edits
9. Saving trimmed clips

Lesson 11: Saving Time with Markers

1. Adding, moving, customizing and removing markers
2. Jumping to markers in the timeline
3. Manipulating groups of markers quickly with Tool Shed
4. Automating edits using markers and Tool Shed
5. Saving clips with attached markers for later reference

Lesson 12: Using DVE Transitions

1. Adding DVEs to a project
2. Adding multiple DVEs at once
3. Using Tool Shed to manipulate multiple DVEs simultaneously
4. The time subtraction concept and maintaining project length
5. DVE limitations

Lesson 13: Layers and Timing

1. Using multiple tracks in the timeline
2. Layer priority
3. Working with still images
4. Importing animated overlays
5. Adding titles
6. Aligning events

Lesson 14: Control Tree

1. Color correction
2. Selective color correction
3. Saving color corrected clips
4. Using the Positioner
5. Keyframe animation with the Positioner
6. Ease in and ease out
7. Working with audio
8. Macro creation and batch processing with Tool Shed