NewTek 3Play 4800 - Manual (Page 77)

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5 THE STARTUP SCREEN
The Startup Screen is the gateway to your NewTek 3Play™
functionality, and also home to session management and system
maintenance features.
Icons on the ring at left in the Startup Screen provide access to
numerous functions. We’ll discuss each of these in the pages that
follow, but first – a review of the concept of sessions.
The Startup Screen appears whenever you launch NewTek 3Play™. From here, you create,
configure, manage and launch 3Play sessions by making selections from the icon ring.
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Your intention may be to participate in a live production, or perform asset management
functions within an existing session. In either case, let’s consider a fundamental concept – the
session. What is a session, and why are sessions both important and valuable to you?