Manufacturer
Website	TransZendent (Open TZT)
Platform	Windows
Price	FREE
Rating	Average: Select ratingPoorOkayGoodGreatAwesome Your rating: None Average: 4.1 (7 votes)

TransZendent is a realtime triggering/mixing/FX software in a similar vein to Svi or Resolume. Comprising of 2 busses of up to 3 layers, with layering modes like difference, add, darken, etc and also hidden @ a keystroke. Clips are triggered from the keyboard with 27banks of 18clips, .avi, .mpg, .bmp (stills), .mov and .swf are all supported. All clip players have full speed control to 2 decimal places, negative play speeds for reversing clips, stop/play button and 2 FX slots each.
Editing the other bus is easily achived with a small preview window that allows you to see the full FX and layering on the other bus. Mixing between buses is performed with a few mixing types such as a wipe, switch, X-fade, push and wave, all triggered from the keyboard. Each bus also has a seperate FX slot that is applied to the entire bus output.

FX available include tunnels, waves, time division (ala MX50), H&V scrolling, ladscape/planing and a huge range of others.

Output from TZT is via a 1/4 screen output window (ala SVi) that is deigned to be used with a scan convertor, however with TZT running full screen @ 640x480 a 320x240 output window can be a little low rez, thankfully you can completely adjust the size and placement of the output window all over the screen by editing the main tzt.ini, as are a lot of the other configuration settings and the assignment of FX to keys with the keymap.ini files in the effector directories. Due to this need to edit text files for configuration I recommend you understand a little about the nature of setting/controlling software in this manner.

The app can also record its own output and seems to be able to share FX plugins with Composite Station (although I have only been able to get the recording option to work).

The stability of TZT is unquestionable with it having now performed live for me personally 4 times and for about 60hours in the studio and not one single crash, however clip triggering can lag a little if you are triggering the clip for the first time.

Keyboard shortcuts are reasonably well explained on the screen, and layer modes diplayed with the clip players, how ever it has some odd keyboard shortcuts that I will explain in a TZT tutorial coming soon, eg. FX slot 1 is used by leftCONTROL-(key of FX), etc. Also FX can be on/off or hold-down key variety depending on how they are triggered.

Frame rates are nothing short of excellent on a 1ghz machine with 128mb of RAM, consistantly meeting target frame rates of 25fps and only droping slightly, sporatically when monitoring the 2nd bus.

All up a really excellent software that I definately see going places, add live video-in and up the native resolution to 1024x768 and its gunning for resolume. Excellent software.

One warning this is JAPANESE software so support can be hard to find, TZT does have a BBS that can be translated with google and they are pretty good with replies so there is help available :) TZT is supplied in the favoured .LZH japanese compressed files, how ever a drag and drop decompresser for the format is available HERE

Full tutorial and keyboard shortcuts available HERE