NewTek 3Play 4800 - Manual (Page 78)

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5.1 INTRODUCTION TO SESSIONS
Whenever you work with your 3Play system, you provide certain information about the
production environment:
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What broadcast standard is used in your locale? Is it PAL, common in Europe among
other places, or perhaps NTSC, standard throughout North American regions?
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Are your cameras or other live sources HD, SD or a mixture of both?

How are cameras connected (are you using component or SDI connections, or a
combination of several types)?
As you continue, you may make other adjustments relevant to your current production
requirements:

You might calibrate your cameras individually using the Proc Amp settings in the Input
Configuration panels.
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Perhaps you will also use Display Proc Amps to adjust output color characteristics.
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What are your output device connection preferences? For example, will you send video
from Channel A to a local reference monitor using component cabling, or perhaps
another connection type? Will you connect a downstream switcher to Channel B using
HD-SDI? What external audio connections and adjustments are required?

You might create PLAY LIST pages of clips and other content, along with pages full of
recorded events in the CLIP LIST.
The list of adjustments, activities and assets involved in a specific production goes on, but the
main point to grasp here is that the session entails of all of the above, collectively. Assuming you
do not deliberately delete the session, all of your media and all of your settings are ready for
immediate recall.
When you re-open an existing session, it’s just as if you were continuing an earlier event. Thus, if
you return to the same venue another day under basically similar conditions, you can opt to
simply re-open your prior session and be virtually ready to go. (Professional wisdom, of course,
calls for testing everything before actually beginning the event.)
Naturally, you can store multiple sessions and load any session freely. This greatly simplifies
business models that involve regular trips to several venues, a number of similar consecutive
events, or different users with their own specific needs.