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12.2 TRANSITIONS
Immediately to the right of the Switcher rows is the Transitions section. With just one exception,
this group of controls and settings provide many creative and flexible ways to swap the video
streams selected on the
Program row for that selected on the Preview Row.
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12.2.1 TAKE AND TRANSITION
The simplest way to accomplish this Program

Preview stream swap is to click the Take button
(keyboard shortcut Enter ). This performs a straight cut to the Preview source.
Clicking Transition (or pressing the keyboard Spacebar ) performs the same source swap, but
does so using the digital video effect selected in the Transition Bin - whether a simple Fade
between sources, or something more elaborate. The time it
takes for the transition is determined by the
[F] , [M] , and [S]
(Fast, Medium, and Slow) buttons. These correspond to two,
one and one half seconds. Alternatively, you can drag left or
right on the nearby numeric slider to set a different transition
time (click the time slider to enable direct keyboard entry of the duration for transitions).
Clicking Reverse causes transitions to be performed in the opposite direction. For example, a
transition that normally reveals the incoming video stream from left-to-right will operate from
right-to-left instead. The small button immediately to the left of Reverse is
Ping Pong (shown illuminated in Figure 135). When Ping Pong is enabled, the
Reverse button is toggled on or off each time a transition is performed. Using
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