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Viz Trio User Guide

Version 3.2 | Published October 08, 2019 ©

Using the built-in Transition Effect features

The built-in transition effects gives easy access to basic effects like cut and fade.

Configure Viz Trio to use the built-in transition effects

To use the built-in transition effects for videos and stills the video outputs in the Configuration settings must enable transitions by selecting the "Use Transitions" checkbox. This menu option can be selected in File > Configuration > Output > Add Video. For details see the Working With the Profile Configuration section.

To make the setup work for graphic elements the Viz output in the Configuration settings must set the mode from "Standard" to "Scene Transitions". This menu option can be set in File > Configuration > Output > Add Viz... “Mode”-option

To make transitions between stills and videos work the profile needs to define a channel for both video and graphic elements (Viz and Video output). Or it has to make sure that stills and video elements get played out on the same Viz Engine, otherwise transitions between those elements is not possible.

Note: In the case where one dual channel machine is used for both program and external preview it might happen that the machine has not enough capacity to show transitions on both channels. For this case Trio can use a simpler preview scene for stills which doesn't support transitions. To use this scene the external preview channel needs to specify the override concept "PREVIEW".

Using the built-in transition effects in Viz Trio

To view the effects column, right-click on the playlist column and in the context menu select Effect to make the column visible.

Transition effects can be chosen individually per element or as default for the playlist. The default for a playlist can be chosen when opening the default effect dialog by pressing on the "Fx.." button. Default values are shown in the effect column with bracket values "[...]". Individual effects are shown without brackets.

The effect column in a playlist shows different effect sets depending on the element type:

  • still images and video elements (currently Cut and Fade).

  • graphic elements (the scene transition effects).
    Starting with Trio version 3, there are two new macro commands to set the default effects for the show:

  • show:set_default_scene_effect and

  • show:set_default_video_effect
    For reference see Macro Commands and Events section show.