NewTek releases all-in-one desktop TriCaster Mini X

The adaptable looking TriCaster Mini X includes a new Live Link feature that allows users to pull any web page elements into a production without the need to use third party applications.

NewTek has a new addition to the TriCaster family and, as the intro suggests, the company is highlighting ease of use for new users looking to get into video production with a single unit that offers multichannel recording, audio mixing, internal storage, and a whole lot more.

Live Link is without doubt the headline new feature and will let users add pretty much any web page elements into production, whether graphics, images, or videos. Copyright willing, in NewTek’s words it effectively “turns the entire internet into a source for your productions.”

The TriCaster Mini X continues the company’s all-in-one desktop form factor and all in all it ticks a lot of boxes. It is compatible with all major streaming platforms, features realtime social media publishing, and built in live titling and motion graphics.

It includes access to 8 external sources with four integrated HDMI inputs and supporting resolutions up to 4Kp30. It also features four independent video mix outputs, 1x UHD video mix output, and 2x streaming video output, independently configurable, with simultaneous stream archive.

HTML rendering takes place directly in the switcher, giving access to HTML 5 motion graphics, webpages, web-based video playback, and more without having to use a separate computer.

Integrated LiveMatte chroma and luma keying technology on all source channels and M/E buses provides 8x input keyers, 2x media player keyers, 4x M/E keyers, and 15x buffer keyers. For virtual set support it includes integrated LiveSet technology with 30+ live virtual sets and box effects included to allow people to start virtual productions pretty much right out of the gate. And integrated DataLink technology allows for realtime, automated data input from internal and external sources, including webpages, spreadsheets, scoreboards, databases, RSS feeds, watch files, XML, CSV, ASCII and more.

And it is, of course, NDI based, meaning that a fairly enormous range of existing kit from cameras to microphones and off-the-shelf HDMI devices can connect directly to the Mini X quickly and easily. 

The NewTek TriCaster Mini X is available now and is priced at $7,995.