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13.4 SEARCH
Searching for something … your glasses, car keys, your spouse (!) … can be oh-so tedious. It’s hard to beat
the joy and relief when the search is successful, however – and sooner is always better than later.
In an instant replay setting, too, there is no time to waste (if you can’t find just the right clip faster than
your director can blink, you may just find yourself looking for a new job.) In recognition of the vital
importance of this matter, fast, innovative search-related functions are intimately integrated throughout
3Play’s workflow, interface and Control Surface operations.
13.4.1 DATAVIEW ENTRIES
Figure 138
By this point in the manual, 3Play’s dataview has been mentioned over and over again, in many different
contexts:
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Every character of textual and numeric input to the system, whether punched on the Control
Surface or typed on the keyboard, flows through the FastClip dataview.
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Likewise almost every snippet of legible information – be it an Event or Clip ID, timecode value,
Memo entry, or tag – that appears on the Replay Desktop can be easily and quickly directed to
the dataview by simply navigating to it using the Control Surface, keyboard or mouse click.
The benefits of this ‘metadata pipeline’ become abundantly clear in connection with 3Play’s Search
functions. In a nutshell, searching works as follows:
1. Post suitable search criteria to the dataview.
2. Execute an operation using the criteria.
Let’s add some detail about those simple steps. First, let’s consider search criteria – what forms it can
take, where it comes from, and how it can be operated on.
ENTERING CRITERIA
Letters, numerals, ‘type-able’ symbols, words or phrases combining the aforementioned, can all serve as
search criteria. Timecode, Clip and Event IDs work, too, for certain operations.
Of course, you can go ‘old school’ and just type your criteria into the dataview using the keyboard, but –
since simply selecting a cell on the Replay Desktop snaps its value into the dataview (Figure 138), often
one need only navigate to (or click) a cell to supply search criteria without any typing at all. Similarly, the