Transitions 3 Chapter

Setting the Transition Rate

There are two ways of setting the transition rate: using the Flexi Pad control block or numeric keypad control block to enter a numeric value, or using the Misc menu to access the Transition menu for the M/E or PGM/PST bank.

You can also display the transition rate, independent key transition rate, and fade-to-black transition rate for each of the M/E and PGM/PST banks, and change the settings. (See “Displaying a List of Transition Rates and Changing the Settings” (page 553).)

Note

When a clip transition is selected as the transition type, it is not possible to set the transition rate.

Frame input mode and timecode input mode

For numeric input of the transition rate value, there are two modes: frame input mode and timecode input mode. You select one of these modes using either the Flexi Pad control block (page 353) or the numeric keypad control block (page 354).

Frame input mode: The entered value is a number of frames. Example: Entering 123 constitutes an entry of 123 frames Timecode input mode: The entered value is a timecode value.

Example: Entering 123 constitutes an entry of 1 second 23 frames.

Note

Whereas you can enter a value of up to 999 in frame input mode, a value not smaller than 10 seconds cannot be entered in timecode input mode.

Frame display mode and timecode display mode

For the transition rate display in the transition control block, there are two modes: frame display mode and timecode display mode. You can select one of these modes in setup. (See “Operation Settings” in Chapter 16 (Volume 2).)

Note

The setting is common to all banks of the switcher.

Frame display mode: Values are shown as from 0 to 999 frames. In this display mode, a value entered in timecode input mode is converted for display as a number of frames.

Timecode display mode: Values are shown as timecode values, consisting of seconds and frames. In this display mode, a value entered in frame input

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