NewTek 3Play 440, User Manual

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You can even create your own custom Animation Store transitions using the included Animation
Store Creator add-on application. These capabilities are so powerful that an entire chapter is
devoted to them (see Chapter 14). For now, we’ll just mention that the Control Surface’s Take
and Auto buttons work just like their familiar namesakes on a typical video switcher, permitting a
‘direct to display’ program/preview workflow in which Channel B supplies program output, with
Channel A serving as the preview bus.
Let’s consider 3Play’s Source Delegates next.
8.3 SOURCE DELEGATES
We’ve seen how the active Channel Delegate determines which output channel is controlled, but
we’ve yet to choose a specific audio/video source send to the channel (and control). That’s
where the
Source Delegate comes into play.
Your NewTek 3Play can deliver audio/video output from one of three possible sources:

CLIP LIST – the currently selected clip (angle) in the CLIP LIST

PLAY LIST – output from the PLAY LIST

Live – the live (or Delayed ) signal from one of the system inputs
As mentioned, 3Play’s dual channel design means that, at a given time, a/v data from one of the
three sources above is always assigned to
Channel A, while Channel B could be carrying
something else entirely. Changing the source for the currently delegate channel simply requires
pushing one of the
Source Delegate buttons.
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