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Viz Trio User Guide

Version 3.2 | Published June 29, 2021 ©

Using Built-in Transition Effects

Built-in transition effects provide easy access to basic effects like cut and fade.

Configuring Built-in Transition Effects

  • For videos and stills: select the Use Transitions checkbox in Configuration settings. Go to File > Configuration > Output > Add Video. For more information, see Working With the Profile Configuration.

  • For graphic elements: the Viz output mode in Configuration settings must be changed from "Standard" to "Scene Transitions". This menu option can be set in File > Configuration > Output > Add Viz... “Mode”-option.

  • For transitions between stills and videos: the profile needs to define a channel for both video and graphic elements (Viz and Video output) or ensure that stills and video elements are played out on the same Viz Engine; transitions between video and graphic elements will otherwise not be possible.

Note: If one dual channel machine is being used for both program and external preview, the machine may not have enough capacity to show transitions on both channels. Should this occur, use a simpler preview scene for stills that does not support transitions. To enable this preview, the override concept PREVIEW must be specified for the external preview channel.

Using Built-in Transition Effects

To view the effects column, right-click the playlist column and select Effect in the menu to make the column visible. Transition effects can be chosen individually per element or as a default for the playlist. Select default for a playlist from the default effect dialog by clicking the Fx.. button.

Info: 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).

In Trio version 3 and later, there are two additional macro commands for setting default effects for a show:

  • show:set_default_scene_effect and

  • show:set_default_video_effect

See Also

  • Show in the Macro Commands and Events section.