NewTek 3Play 440, User Manual

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62. Press the number “1” on the Control Surface number pad (don’t press ENTER just yet).
Observe, first, that the text value “home” has been added to the FastClip dataview . This is the
value from the 0:1 cell in the TAGS pane. Also, notice that the TAGS pane’s Auto Advance feature
automatically presented the next tab ( PLAYER ), and awaits further input.
Let’s add some more metadata to complete our Memo entry for this clip.
63. Enter “03” using the number pad – again, do not press ENTER .
64. Now enter “02”, using the number pad.
The dataview should now show the value “home smith foul”. By entering just 5 digits, we have
formed a little metadata ‘sentence’. (Of course your working TAGS entries could be more or less
complex, and diverse.)
65. Push ENTER to complete the tagging operation. (Remember that SHIFT + ENTER would
have pushed the value shown in the dataview window to all angles for the current
event.)
Tip: Tagging works whether the TAGS pane is displayed or hidden. Often-used tag numbers
quickly become second nature, and of course it can be useful to match tag coordinates with
player numbers. You will soon be writing “Memoires of a Replay Artist” using nothing but tags.
4.8 SEARCH AND GO TO
Let’s experiment briefly with SEARCH and GO TO .
66. Tag or otherwise add comments to the Memo cells for a few different clips in different
events. Use different entries for some clips, but matching entries for others. In one or
two cases, add
67. Navigate to a Memo field – its current value is snapped into the dataview .
68. Push SEARCH .