NewTek 3Play 440, User Manual

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14 TRANSITIONS
3Play’s powerful transitions deliver sophisticated style and state of
the art capabilities to your replay output. They can even include
custom graphics and audio, adding powerful emotional impact.
This section explains the selection and use of appropriate transition
effect, various transition workflows that 3Play offers, and the
included graphics tools enabling you to author custom transitions.
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Dynamic transition effects can be used to introduce replay clips with added drama and
excitement. 3Play supports different types of effects (including custom transitions) as well as
more than one workflow capable of effects.
14.1 PLAY LIST TRANSITIONS
Many replay systems provide the ability to play a prepared sequence of clips with transitions
between them for use as highlight reels. As a rule, using transitions in this manner requires you
to dedicate not just one, but two outputs toward achieving transition effects between clips.
3Play’s PLAY LIST module, however, directly supports integrated transition effects, eliminating
the need to dedicate an extra output for this purpose. We’ve covered these tools in depth
already (see Section 12.3.7), so we will not belabor the advantages of this workflow here.