NewTek 3Play 3P1, User Manual

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13 TAGS, SEARCH, & MORE
“Instant replay” – just two words, but fraught with deep implications.
Consider the word “replay”: As a minimum, this requires a powerful audio
and video recording and playout system.
But “instant” demands even more – not merely storage and playback
technology, but a critical need to identify and recall key clips, and do so
very, very quickly indeed. This chapter will acquaint you with 3Play’s
innovative data management tools.
13.1 OVERVIEW
3Play provides powerful audio and video capabilities – but for its primary role, this is not enough. Marking
events and clips are likewise vital; unless you have an eidetic memory, and can mentally associate
hundreds of events with their timecode, getting that perfect clip on the screen on demand would be very
difficult.
Enter “metadata”: in this case, consisting of
descriptive comments and identifiers for your
clips, added to Memo fields in plain text or using
your personal shorthand.
In concert with 3Play’s powerful and easy to use
search features, Memo content lets you locate
that special clip in moments.
Of course, Memo field content can also be used to help you quickly and easily organize, manage, or
publish your data in powerful workflows.
Entering metadata could be very tricky when you are busy marking events. Thankfully, 3Play’s potent
TAGS feature and FastClip workflow mitigate this burden, reducing complex Memo entries to a few quick
button presses. TAGS are tightly integrated with the search tools, making for a combination of
functionality that you’ll find virtually indispensable.
13.1.1 TAGGING WORKFLOW
The TAGS pane lets you pre-configure tabbed lists, each a table whose individual cells contain various text
entries. You will likely use tabs for different categories of clip identifiers, such as player names, action
types, and so on (the default tab names hint at this approach).