Miranda NV5100MC Operator's Manual

NV5100MC

Master Control

SCP Operator’s Gui de

M ira nd a T ech no l ogie s I n c.

3499 D ouglas B. Floreani

Montreal, Q uebec

Canada H4S 2C6

NV5100MC SCP Operator’s Guide

• Revision: 2.7

• Software Ver sion: 6.3.4.0

• Part Nu mb er: UG0016-08

• Copyright: © 2011 Miranda Technologies. All rights reserved.

• No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form by photocopy, microfilm, xerography or
any other means, or incorporated into any information retrieval system, electronic or mechani­cal, without the written permission of Miranda Technologies, Inc.

• The information contained in this manual is subject to change without notice or obligation.

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Customer shall not copy the printed materials accompanying the software product.

Notice

The software contains proprietary information of Miranda Te chnologies, Inc. It is provided under a
license agreement c ontaining restrictions on use and disclosure and is also protected by copyright
law. Reverse engineering of the software is prohibited.

Due to continued product development, the accuracy of the information in this document may
change without notice. The information and intellectual property contained he rein is confidential
between Mir anda and the client and remains the exc lusive property of Miranda. If you find any
problems in the documentation, please report them to us in writing. Miranda does not warrant that
this document is er ror-free.

FCC Statement

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device,
pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection
against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This
equipment generates, use s, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in
accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which
case the user will be required to correct the interference at his ow n expense.

Declaration of Conformance (CE)

All of the equipment described in this manual has been designed to conform with the required
safety and emissions standards of the European Community. Products tested and verified to meet
these standards are marked as required by law with the CE mark. (See S ymbols and Thei r Mea n-

ings on page v.)

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When shipped into member countries of the European Community, this equipment is accompanied
by a uthentic copies of or iginal Declarations of Conformance on file in Miranda GVD offices in
Grass Valley, California USA.

Trademarks

Miranda is a registe red trademark of Miranda Technologies, Inc.

Brand and product names mentioned in this manual may be trademarks, registered trademarks or
copyrights of their respec tive holders. All brand and product names mentioned in this manual serve
as comments or examples and are not to be understood as advertising for the produc ts or their man­ufactures.

Software License Agreement and Warranty Information

Contact Miranda for details on the software license agreement and product warranty.

Technical Support Contact Information

Mir anda has made every ef fort to e nsure that the equipment you r eceive is in perfec t working order
and that the equipment fits your needs. In the event that problems arise that you cannot resolve, or
if there are any questions regarding this equipment or information about other products manufac­tured by Miranda, please contact your local representative or contact Miranda directly through one
of the appropriate means listed here.

• Main tele phone: [phone] (9 am to 9 pm PST)
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• Emergency after hours: toll-free: [phone]
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• We bsite: http://www.miranda.com

• Mail Shipping

Miranda GVD Miranda GVD
P.O. Box 1658 125 Crown Point Court
Nevada City, CA 95959, USA Grass Valley, CA 95945, USA

No t e Return Material Authorization (RMA) required for all returns.

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Change History

The table below lists the changes to the Master Control SCP Operator’s Guide.

• SCP Operator’s Guide Part # UG0016-08

• Software version: 6.3.4.0

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2.1 08 Ju l 08 1476 6 Con form t o ECO 14 66 3 (softw are re leas e) D.Cox

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2.5 08 Jan 19 16 25 7 C on forms to s oft war e rel ease 6.3 .1 (Int ui ti on XG

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support, automatic gang mode).

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important changes to this guide.)

Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHS)

Miranda is in compliance with EU Directive RoHS 2002/95/EC governing the r estricted use of cer­tain ha zardous substances and ma terials in products and in our manufacturing processes.

Miranda has a substantial program in place for RoHS compliance that includes significant invest­ment in our manufacturing process, and a migration of Miranda product electronic components and
structural materials to RoHS compliance.

It is our objective at NV to maintain compliance with all relevant environmental and product regu­latory requirements. Detailed information on specific products or on the RoHS program at Miranda
is availa ble from Miranda Customer Support at

1-800-719-1900 (toll-free) or
1-530-265-1000 ( outside the U.S.).

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Important Safeguards and Notices

This section provides important safety guidelines for operators and service personnel. Specific
warnings and cautions appear throughout the manual where they apply. Ple ase read and follow this
important information, especially those instructions related to the risk of electric shock or injury to
persons.

Wa r ni n g

Any instructions in this manual that require opening the equipment cover or
enclosure are for use by qualified service personnel only. To r educe the risk of
electric shock, do not perform any service other than that contained in the operat­ing instructions unless you are qualified to do so.

Symbols and Their Meanings

The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle alerts the user to the pres­ence of dangerous voltages within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to
constitute a risk of electric shock to persons.

The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle alerts the user to the presence of important
operating and maintenance/service instructions.

The Ground symbol represents a protective grounding terminal. Such a terminal must be connected
to earth ground prior to making any other connections to the equipment.

The fuse symbol indicates that the fuse referenced in the text must be replaced with one having the
ratings indicated.

The presence of this symbol in or on Miranda equipment means that it has been designed, tested
and certified a s complying with applicable Underwriter ’s Laboratory (USA) regulations and rec­ommendations.

The presence of this symbol in or on Miranda equipment means that it has been designed, tested
and certified as essentially complying with all applicable European Union (CE) regulations and
recommendations.

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General Warnings

A w arning indicates a possible haz ard to personnel which may cause injury or death. Observe the
following genera l warnings when using or w orking on this equipment:

• Heed all war nings on the unit and in the operating instructions.

• Do not use this equipment in or near water.

• This equipment is grounded through the gr ounding conductor of the power cord. To avoid elec­trical shock, plug the power cord into a properly wired receptacle before connecting the equip­ment inputs or outputs.

• Route power cords and other cables so they a re not likely to be damaged.

• Disconnect power before cleaning the equipment. Do not use liquid or aerosol cleaners; use
only a damp cloth.

• Dangerous voltages may exist at several points in this equipment. To avoid injury, do not touch
exposed connections and compone nts while power is on.

• Do not wear rings or wristwatches when troubleshooting high current circuits such as the power
supplies.

• To avoid fir e hazard, use only the specified fuse(s) with the correct type number, voltage and
current ratings as referenced in the appropriate locations in the service instructions or on the
equipment. Always refer fuse replacements to qualified service personnel.

• To avoid explosion, do not operate this equipment in an explosive atmosphere.

• Have qualif ied service personnel perform safety checks after any servic e.

General Cautions

A caution indicates a possible hazard to equipment that could result in equipment damage. Observe
the following cautions when oper ating or working on this equipment:

• When installing this equipment, do not attach the power cord to building surfaces.

• To prevent damage to equipment when replacing fuses, locate and correct the problem that
caused the fuse to blow before re-applying power.

• Use only the specified replacement parts.

• Follow static precautions at a ll times when handling this equipment.

• This product should only be powered as described in the manual. To prevent equipment dam­age, select the proper line voltage on the power supply(ies) as described in the installation doc­umentation.

• To prevent damage to the equipment, read the instructions in the equipment manual for pr oper
input voltage range selection.

• Some products include a backup battery. There is a risk of explosion if the battery is replaced by
a battery of an incorrect type. Dispose of batteries according to instructions.

• Products that have (1) no on/off switch and (2) use an external power supply must be installed
in proximity to a main power output that is easily accessible.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter St ructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

The PDF Documen t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Terms , Co nventio ns and A bbrevi ations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Chapter 2 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Master Contro l System O verv iew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

NV9000 Router Control Sy stem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Control Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

MCPMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Other Miranda Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Tally Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

DC21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

EBCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

TLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Intuition X G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

MCPM Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Video Effect s and Audio Overs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Transiti on Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

MCPM Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

MCE Su mmary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Control Panel Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Limitati ons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Chapter 3 The Control Pane l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

SCP Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Panel But tons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Panel Knobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Function al Sections of the SCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Main Source Sel ection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Main Source Button Charact eris tics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

“Hot Cuts ” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Breakaway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Flip-Flop Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Modifiable Butto ns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Layer Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Video Effect s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

XG Lay ers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Audio Overs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Other Layer Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Menu Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Fixed Men us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Customer’s Bu ttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Scroll/Set Knob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Transiti on Secti on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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Audio Levels Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Program Knob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Preset Kn ob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Over Rati o Knob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Monitors Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Monitor A Knob an d LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Monitor B Knob and L ED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

GPI/Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Chapter 4 Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Fixed Men us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

List Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Source Select ion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Main Source Sel ection Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Over Source Sel ection Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Video Effect Sel ection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Panel Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

System St atus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Panel Stat us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Panel Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Manag e Lo g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Version In fo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Panel Con trol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Updat e Config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

“Are y ou sure?” Men u . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Menu Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Navigati on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Breakaway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Transiti on Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Transiti on Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Audio Monitors and Meters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Audio Level and Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

GPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

GPI Outpu t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

GPI In put . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

GPI In put and Ou tput . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Emerg ency Bypass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Emerg ency Bypass Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Emerg ency Bypass Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Bank Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Salvo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Channel Selectio n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Channel Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

No Channel s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Gang Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Channel Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Channel Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Router Pre-Select Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Router Cat egory Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Router So urce Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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Machine Co ntrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Fast Forw ard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Rewind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Cue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Pause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Preroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Abort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Intuition XG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Panel Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Audio Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Automati on Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Fade t o Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Flip-Flop Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Dolby E o r “FBA” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Dolby-E Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Dolby-E Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

System St atus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Defau lt Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Defau lt Main Men u . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Trans(ition) Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Breakaway Men u . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Video Effect s Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Monitor A Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Meters Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

User Buttons Men u . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Other Men u . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Audio Men u . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Source Select Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Audio Levels Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Chapter 5 Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Performi ng Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Basic Tran siti on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Pre-Roll Transit ion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Using Breakaways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Selectin g Transition Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Machine Co ntrol T ransit ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Fade t o Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Working with Keyers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Intuition XG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Performi ng Keyer T rans itions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Choosing Keyer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Working with Logos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Performi ng Logo Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Choosing Logo Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Working with Sq ueezeback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Performi ng Squeezeback Transitio ns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Enhan ced Squeezeb ack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Choosing a Squeezeback Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Machine Co ntrol T ransit ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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Working with Audio Overs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Adjustin g Audio Overs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Performi ng Over Transitio ns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Choosing Over Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Speci al A udio O vers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Machine Co ntrol T ransit ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Intuition XG Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Working with Mo nitors an d Meters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Working with Audio Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Mapping So urces to Button s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Main Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Over Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Machine Co ntrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Working with Ch annels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Automati c Gan g Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Channel Selectio n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

No Channel Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Ganging Channels Toget her . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

MCEs and Ganged Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Machine Co ntrol and Ganged Chan nel s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Intuition XG an d Ganged Chan nels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Working with Machine Contro l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Pre-Roll Transit ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Working with In tuition XG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

XG Lay er Button s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

XG Key er Control Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Performi ng XG L ayer Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Previewi ng XG L ayer Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Using the Panel Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Using Flip-Flop Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Understan ding Non-Sync Bypass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Understan ding LOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Panel Startup an d Shutdo wn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

MCPMs and MCEs Not Con nect ed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Internal Panel Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

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Chapter 6 Misc. Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Fan Co ntrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Button Co lors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Product Limitati ons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Features Not Su pported by the SCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Intuition XG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Preview an d Aux Bu ses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Audio Macros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Lever Arm Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Individual Audio Channel Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Video Effect Adjus tmen t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Other Feat ures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Future Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Speci fications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Electrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Mechanical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Control In puts an d Outpu ts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Defau lt Panel Co nfiguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 00

General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

NV9000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

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Table of Contents

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1. Preface

Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the SCP Operator’s Guide. It presents the following topics:

• Chapter Struc ture

• The PD F Document

• Terms, Conve ntions and Abbreviations

Chapter Structure

This is an operator’s guide. The following c hapters provide information regarding the Simple Con-
trol Panel (SCP) in the master control system:

• Chapter 1, Preface , (this chapter) outlines easy ways to use this guide and provides a list of
terms and conventions.

• Chapter 2, Introduction, describes how the SCP relates to the master control system and pro­vides installation and connection instructions.

• Chapter 3, The Control Panel, discusses the features and functions of the SCP.

• Chapter 4, Menus, provides a more detailed discussion of the SCP menus.

• Chapter 5, Operation, provides operating instructions.

• Chapter 6, Misc. Topics, presents a glossary, specifications, and miscellaneous instructions and
information.

An Index is also available for your reference.

The PDF Document

This guide is provided in PDF format, allowing you to use Acr obat’s “bookmarks” to navigate to
any desired location. You can a lso easily print a hardcopy. Please note :

• Use the Table of Contents or the bookmarks page to jump to any desired section.

• Many hyperlinks are provided within the chapters.

• Use the Index to jump to specific topics within a chapter. Each page number in the index is a
hyperlink.

• Use Acrobat’s ‘Go to Previous View’ and ‘Go to Next Vie w’ buttons to retrace your complete
navigational path.

• Use the ‘First Page’, ‘Previous Page’, and ‘Next Page’, and ‘Last Page’ buttons to go to the
first, previous, next, or last page within a PDF file.

Note To display the navigation buttons, r ight-click the Tool Bar area, and check

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‘Navigation’.

1. Preface

Terms , C onventi on s and A bbreviations

• Use Acrobat’s extensive search capabilities, such as the ‘Find’ tool and ‘Search’ tool to perform
comprehensive searches as required.

Terms, Conventions and Abbreviations

The following conventions are used throughout this guide:

• The symbol S denotes either an example or a special message.

• Entries enclosed in single quotes denote the names of control panel buttons and knobs, or menu
items.

• Choose ‘Aux’ to ...

• Press ‘Keyer 2’ button ...

• If a seque nce of menu selections is required, the symbol “>” separates each step.

From the main menu, press AUDIO >MONITOR A to access ...

The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout this guide:

• The terms “panel,” control panel,” and “SCP” refer to the “Simple Control Panel” that is the
subject of this guide.

• The terms “PC GUI,” “CECP GUI ,” “A ux/Pre view GUI, ” “F FC P,” “CFCP,” “CECP,” C ECP
M1,”and “ FE CP” refer to other master control panels.

• “MCPM” stands for Master Control Proce ssing Module — the “transition processor” that
installs in the master control frame. One MCPM provides one master control channel.

• “MCE” stands for Ma ster Control Engine — the “next generation” transition processor. An
MCE as a type of MCPM and provides one master control channel.

• MasterConfig is the software that configures MCPMs.

• MasterDiag is the softw are used to assign MCPMs network addresses and perform diagnostics.

• MasterLogo is the software that converts your graphic images into logos in the format required
by an MCPM. It also uploads logos to MCPMs.

• The MCS Panel Configuration Editor is the software that configures the SCP.

“The editor” and “the configuration editor” are abbreviations for this software.

• “High tally” means that a button is brightly illuminated — at full intensity.

• “Low tally” means that a button is illuminated at low intensity. Most buttons assume a low tally
state until selected. Some buttons are not illuminated.

• Intuition XG is a single- or dual-channel graphics processor. The term “ Intuition XG” can
encompass all the hardware and software involved in the Intuition XG component of master
control.

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Prerequisites

Please observe the following important prerequisites:

Refe r to the NV5100MC Master Control Reference Manual for general and detailed information.

1. Preface

Prerequisites

• Equipment and software properly installed.

• Vide o monitors properly set.

Ensure that your control room’s program and preview monitors are properly set, according to
the requirements of your facility.

• NV9000 requirements me t.

If you are using a master c ontrol system in c onjunction with an NV9000 router control system,
ensure that your NV5100MC and NV5128-MC frames and the NV9000 are communicating
with each other and conf igured as required. This connection allows an NV9000 “salvo” to
change your program and preview monitors automatically — whenever you change channels on
the master control switcher.

Refe r to the NV9000-SE Utilities User’s Guide for instructions on programming system salvos.

• MCPM channels properly configured.

Ensure that each MCPM has been configured (using MasterConfig). Refer to the MasterConfig
User ’s Guide for deta ils.

• All control panels properly configured.

The SCP must be configured using the MCS Panel Configuration Editor.

• User accounts for PCs used for master control set to ‘Standard User’ or be tter.

Master control softwar e does not function properly when user accounts are set to ‘Restricted
User’ or its equivalent.

Options

The Master Contr ol Tally Processor is an option. It provides 32 GPI inputs and 32 GPI outputs. It
can monitor master control events and trigger master control e vents.

The Master Contr ol (DC21) Device Controller is an option but is required if your master control
system is to perform machine control. It also has 32 GPI inputs and 32 GPI outputs and has 4 serial
ports.

Intuition XG is an option that can be enabled for specific MCEs. Intuition XG adds rich branding to
master control because it includes sophisticated design tools and a powerful graphics processors.

If Intuition XG is integrated with master control, at least one SWB input card (and backplane mod­ule) is required.

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Options

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2. Introduction

Chapter 2 provides an introduction to the SCP Operator’s Guide. It presents the following topics:

• Purpose

• Master Control System Overview

• MCP M Ove rview

• MCE Summary

• Control Panel Features

Purpose

The SCP (Simple Control Panel) is one of the hardware control panels available in the master con­trol system. These are its distinguishing characteristics:

• Small size. The SCP is a 3RU rack-mountable panel, 19.0 ″ × 5.22″ × 3.17″. Its compactness
allows it to be mounte d where space is at a premium.

• The SCP is intended for use in a facility where master control is automated.

• Lower cost.

• A designated set of buttons can be configured as main sources, video effects, or audio overs as
required by your facility.

• Operators can switch betwee n two banks of main sources.

Master Control System Overview

Miranda’s master control system — a multi-channel switcher — might include one or more
NV5100MC frames and one or more NV5128-MC frames. The frames are similar 8RU assemblies
with 16 I/O card slots that can operate in conjunction with other switchers, routers, an NV9000
router control syste m, and other products.

Each frame holds one or more MCPMs or MCEs and optionally a multi-format router. The MCPMs
and MCEs are the modules that actually pe rform the master control sw itching. Each MCPM or
MCE is considered a channel.

MCPMs, MCEs, and control panels communicate on an Ethernet LAN. When an operator presses
control panel buttons (the ‘Transition’ button, for example), the control panel issues commands to
an MCPM or MC E. The MCPM or MCE re sponds wit h st a tus and (unl ess a problem exist s) exe­cutes the command. When a command is successfully executed, the MCPM or MCE notifies the
panel, which updates its displays and indicators accordingly.

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Mas ter Contr ol S yste m Overview

Figure 2-1 shows the relationships in a master control system:

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Master control can work in conjunction with the NV9000 router control system. In such a configu­ration, a channel has access to the entire router input space, with the ability to assign any router
source dynamic ally to control panel buttons.

Most control panels can control one or more channels at any time — but usually one at a time.
Operators can select which channel(s) to control. When you change channels, control panel updates
take about a second. We say that the pane l attaches the newly selected channel, and the channel’s
own source layout, transition rates, and layer presets are available for use.

Each MCPM and MCE can also be operated under automation. An MCPM or MCE can be con­trolled by multiple control panels.

NV9000 Router Control System

A ma ster control system can be viewed as a part of an NV9000 system. Alternatively, the NV9000
can be regarded as provider of inputs to the master control system.

In either case, master control allows router outputs as ma ster control inputs and allows an operator
(or automation) to take any router source to the master contr ol output.

An MC system used in conjunction with an NV9000 system must be connected to the NV9000 (in
the control section of the master control frame).

Co ntrol P anel s

Presently the re are 5 hardware control panels and 2 software control panels (GUIs):

NV5128-MC-FFCP “Full Function” Control Panel. A fairly large console having pushbuttons

that support various f ixed and configurable functions, an LCD touchscreen,
and several a udio control knobs. The FFCP can be mounted in a recess in a
desktop or work surface.

NV5128-MC-CFCP Compact “Full Function” Control Panel. A console similar to the FFCP, but

smaller, with fewer buttons and more flexibility. The CFCP can be mounted
in a 19″ rack. It can also be mounted in a recess in a desktop or work sur­face.

NV5128-MC-SCP Simple Control Panel. The SCP is a 3RU rac k-mount unit. Although it has

function buttons and audio control knobs, it has no touchscreen: the menu
items are encoded in the button legends.

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Mas ter Contr ol S yste m Ov erv iew

NV5128-MC-GUI (Old) software control panel, also called the PC GUI. This panel runs on a

PC and has a graphical user interface, hence the name “GUI.” This GUI is a
software emulation of the FFCP. This GUI is designed to operate with (or
without) a touch-sensitive screen.

NV5100MC-GUI (New) software control panel, also called the “CECP GUI.” This panel also

runs on a PC and has a graphical user interface. This GUI is a software emu­lation of the CECP. This GUI is designed to operate with (or without) a
touch-sensitive screen.

The Aux/Preview GUI is a configuration option for the CECP GUI. It is not
a separate product.

NV5100MC-CECP Compact Enhanced Control Panel. A c onsole similar in many functions to

the CFCP, but having a different form. The CECP mounts on a desktop or
work surface. It has a larger touchscreen, and a dditional features such as
preview and aux buses and a joystick. All buttons have LCD legends and
color-coding. The CECP M1 is a variant of the CECP that has tw o metering
inputs and no joystick or preview bus.

NV5100MC

-FECP

“Full-size” enhanced control panel. A console similar in size and function
to the FFCP, but with features tha t support Mir anda’s “next generation” of
master control such as preview and aux buses and a joystick. The FECP
mounts on a desktop or work surface. All but 2 buttons have LCD legends
and color-coding.

MCPMs

MCPMs (master control processing module) are the devices that perform master control switching
and mixing. There are several types of MCPMs:

MCPM-SD 2-slot modules that process standard definition (SD) video. Provides 3 keyers,

2 logos, 1 squeezebac k layer, 4 AES outputs, a nd 8 analog audio outputs in
addition to program output.

MCPM-HD,
MCPM-HD2

MCPM-SDHD 4-slot modules that process either HD or SD vide o, as a field-programmable

MCPM-MK-SD 1-slot modules that process standard definition (SD) video. Provides 3 keyers,

MCPM-MK-HD 2-slot modules that process high definition (HD only) video. Provides 3 key-

MCE A 1- to 3-slot module that processes either HD or SD video, as a field-pro-

4-slot modules that process either high definition (HD) video. Provides 3 key­ers, 2 logos, 1 squeezeback layer, 4 AES outputs, and 8 analog audio outputs in
addition to program output. Two slots can be filled with router output cards.

option. Provides 3 keyers, 2 logos, 1 enhanced squeezeback layer, 4 AES out­puts, and 8 analog audio outputs in addition to program output. One of the slots
can be occupied by a router output card.

1 logo, but no squeezeback. These modules are also named “mixer/keyers” or
“branding engines.”

ers, 1 logo, and no squeezeback. Unlike other MCPMs, this model accepts
inputs (16) from its bac kplane, not the frame’s motherboard. These modules
are also named “mixer/keyers” or “branding engines.”

grammable option. MCEs are considered “ next generation” processors a nd
have new architecture. See MCE Summary

, on page 11.

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Mas ter Contr ol S yste m Overview

Other M iranda Pr oducts

Listed he re are products that relate to nv5100mc.

Tally Process or

Miranda offers a third-party “tally processor”— a 1RU device that provides 32 optically isolated
inputs and 32 relay outputs, also optically isolated. The tally pr ocessor can sense master control
events such as main source selections and transitions, trigger master control events, and control
various devices in your system. A master control network can include multiple tally processors.

DC21

The DC21 is another third-party device — a 1R U devi ce appe aring very muc h li ke the Tal ly Pr oces-
sor — that performs machine control.

Each of its 4 serial ports uses one of 3 machine control protocols: Sony, Odetics, or VDCP.

Its GPOs can be configured to control up to 16 devices with start and stop pulses. GPO s not use d
for master control might be programmed to r espond to GPI and device control events.

EBCP

The emergency bypass control panel (EBCP) is a simple one: it is a 1RU pa nel that has two large
button switches. One says “Main” and the other says “Bypass.” Pressing the red “Bypass” button
places an MCPM or MCE in bypass mode. Pressing the green “Main” button enables normal mode.
(The panel controls only the MCPM to which it is connected.)

TLA

The transition lever arm (TLA) is an extension of a hardware control panel that allows an operator
to perform manual transitions by moving a lever from one extent to the other. The operator can vary
the speed, duration, and direction of the transition at will. The TLA can be used only with the FFCP
or CF CP.

Intuition XG

As a master control subsystem, Intuition XG is a combination of the following:

• Vertigo XG — a single- or dual-channel HD/SD graphics processor. This processor stores XG
media clips and transmits the clips (fill and key) when directed by an MCE.

The MCE treats the video as it doe s any key source and mixes the video from the with program
or prese t output. In fact, the MCE uses its keyers to process the XG layer s.

• XMedia software for conf iguration and for composing, rendering, and previewing graphics.
Panel operators will generally not need to understand or use this software.

You might f ind ‘XG layer’ buttons on the panel’s preset and program button rows and an ‘XG
keyer control’ among the menu buttons.

The SCP has limited Intuition XG support: although it supports transitions involving XG clips, it
does not have the means by which to select XG clips. You must use another control panel for that.

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MCPM Overview

An MCPM (master control processing module) is a lso called a transition processor. It performs the
bulk of what occurs in master control. A master control system has one or more MCPMs. MCEs are
“next generation” MCPMs and offer additional capabilities. See MCE Summary, on page 11.

Control pane ls govern the ac tions perf ormed by MCPMs (and MCEs).

The MCPM transitions its output from one program source to another and to maintain a smooth
transition as it does so. Transitions involve video effects and audio “overs.” A program source is
called a main sour ce in contrast to other sources, such as those for video keyers.

What the MCPM produces as output is called program and what is next to be on the progr am output
is called preset. An operator at a control panel or an automation system presets a main source
(video and audio) and zero or more video effects or audio overs. During a transition, the MCPM
mixes the prese t and program video and the preset and program audio. The video effects and audio
overs fade in or out as required by the transition rate and transition type. At the end of the transi­tion, what was on preset is now on program. The MCPM also has options to swap the preset and
program settings and to clear effects from preset after the transition.

2. Introduction

MCPM Ov erv iew

The MCPM adheres to the “audio follows video” paradigm: a main source in the MCPM is c onsid­ered a video input with attached a udio inputs.

The MCPM provides 8 channels of audio processing. E ach main source (on both program and pre­set) can have 8 channels of audio. Each audio channel can be individually configured.

The MCPM can proce ss Dolby-E encoded audio input if the MCPM has a Dolby module installed.

An MCPM can switch from normal program output to emergency program output during periods of
“emergency” or malfunction. MCPMs have an emergency bypass control that performs the switch.

All MCPMs provide audio metering outputs and audio monitoring outputs. All MCPMs have auxil­iary functions (such as GPIs). Panel operators can control the program and preset audio levels and
control audio monitor output. Panel opera tors can control MCPM GPIs and panel GPIs.

Video Effects and Audio Overs

Vide o effects include

keyer 1, logo A, squeezeback, keyer 2, keyer 3, logo B.

The MCPM applies video effects, layered cumulatively, to the selected main source (preset or pro­gram) in the order listed above.

A key1 is a video overlay. A key can have two video sources: key (or ma sk) and fill. Some ke ys
have only one source — fill — and the mask is derived from the luminance of the fill. These keys
are called “self-keys.” A keyer is a key processor and is selectable at the control panel or by auto-
mation.

S For MCEs only, an external Intuition XG processor can provide video fill and key sources that

are rendered by 1 or 2 of the MCE’s keyers.

A logo is a graphic overlay.

1. A ke yer is the firmwar e that mi xes ke y signals with upst ream video.

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MCPM Ov ervie w

Squeezeback means that program output is either scaled or cropped to a specified portion of the
video image. Ther e are two forms of squeezeback — basic and e nhanced.

An over is an audio overlay. The MCPM mixes audio over and program audio at some ratio that can
be pre-configured and also adjusted at the control panel.

Not a ll MCPMs support all effects. Some control panels can be configured with a reduced set of
eff ec ts.

Transition Types

A transition can be fast, medium, or slow. The exact duration of “fast,” “medium,” and “slow” is
configurable.

On some other control panels, a transition can be controlled by a transition lever arm (TLA). A
transition controlled by a TLA is also called a “manual” transition.

Basic transition type s include cut, V-fade (or fade-fade ), cut-fade , cross-f ade (or X- fade), a nd f ade­cut. “Preset black” transitions are principally for use with TLAs. However, the SCP can perform
simulated “preset black” transitions. These inc lude cut/cut, V-fade, cut-fade, and fade-cut, but not
cross-fade.

The MCPM can also perform “f ade-to-black” or FTB. An FTB fades the program video to a pre­defined matte (and program audio to silence). The matte can be any color, not just black.

The master control system allows “hot c ut s” a lthough they are not rec omme nded.

MCPM Types

There are 7 MCPM types:

MCPM-S D MCPM-MK- SD (“Mixe r/Keye r” ) MCPM-SDHD
MCPM-HD MCPM-MK-HD (“Mixer/Keyer”) MCE
MCPM-HD2

All MCPMs have common characteristics, such as audio meter outputs, G PIO, clean-feed outputs,
and emergency bypass capability, but also have many differences.

The mixer/keyers do not have squeezeback and have one logo inserter (logo B). The MCPM­SDHD provides enhanced squeezeback.

The mixer/keyers do not have analog audio outputs and do not support Dolby E.

The MCE (maste r control e ngine) has new architecture and differs from other MCPMs. Se e MCE

Sum mar y, on page 11.

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Console Port

Reset Switch

Bypas s L ED

Bypas s S wit ch

Diagnostic Port

PS Ala rm LE D (Red)

Power LED (Green)

Alarm LED (R ed)

Ac t i ve L ED ( Y el lo w)

Health LED (Green)

Figure 2-2 shows the MCPM-SDHD, one of the several MCPM types:

SDI

PGM OUT

BYPASS IN

PGM MON

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Fron t of MCPM-SDHD

Figure 2-2. MCPM-SDHD (Front, B ackplane)

Video

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Program Monitor Out

Bypass In

Prev iew M onitor Out

Clean Feed Out

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NV5000-XP-SDHD

AES

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PGM OUT 3/4

BYPASS IN 3/4

PGM OUT 5/6

BYPASS IN 5/6

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MCE Summary

MCEs (master control engines) are the “next generation” of MCPMs — devices that perform master
control sw itching and mixing.

S Although the SCP can control an MCE, the SCP does not have preview or aux button rows and

cannot control those parts of the MCE.

The MCE is an extendable product, occupying up to 3 card slots, with a full se t of features. There
are 4 modules in the MCE card set:

• MCE-CORE. The minimum MCE comprises this single (full-size) card that performs core mas­ter control functions.

•MCE-PVW. The previe w module supports a preview bus.

• MCE-AXM. The audio expansion m odule supports Dolby E and additional audio func tions.
The AXM provides Dolby E dec oders for the program and preset buses and audio outputs at its
backplane. The decoders are (optional) thir d-pa rty daughter cards.

• MCE-DVE. The digital video effect cards are mezzanine (small) cards that can be added to the
core and the preview cards for additional video effects and squeezeback.

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MCE Summary

MCEs have inputs and outputs similar to those for MCPMs, such as audio meter outputs, GPIO,
clean-feed outputs, and emergency bypass capability. All MCEs have a reset switch, a bypass tog­gle (for the emergency bypass relay) and an diagnostic port at their front. The diagnostics port is a
DE9, RS-232. The MCE can proc ess either HD or SD signals as a field-programmable option.

Notable differences between the MCEs and older MCPMs include:

There are other diff erence s.

Figure 2-3 shows the front of one of 4 possible MCE assemblies and its associated backplanes:

• MCEs have 16-channel audio. The MCE’s audio output is embedded.

• MCEs have preview and aux buses.

• MCE audio and video connectors are 1.0/2.3 DIN connectors; MCPM audio and video connec­tors are BNCs.

• MCEs have 2 clean feed outputs and 2 aux outputs.

• All logos are stored in non-volatile memory.

• Machine control and pre-roll functions.

• Integration of and support f or Intuition X G functions.

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Health LED (Green)

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Control Panel Features

The SCP offers many standard features. (In most cases, the features are those of the MCPM (or
MCE) under control.)

• Channel selection, including ‘no channel’ mode, and ganged channels.

Your panel will usually have a default channel w hich is the channel selected when the pa nel
powers up. Your panel might be configured so that its default channel is part of a channel gang.
That is called “automatic gang mode.” Whenever that channel is selected, all the channels in the
gang are selected.

• Salvos.

The SCP can trigger a NV9000 control system salvo each time a channel change occur s. For
example, a salvo can be programmed to change your entire audio/video monitor configuration
instantly. Re fer to the NV9000-SE Utilities User’s Guide for instructions on programming sys­tem salvos.

You can also execute salvos that are assigned to menu buttons.

S Salvos ar e inhibited when a channel gang is in effect.

• Independent video keyers. A c ontrol panel can controls 3 independent linear keyers, e ach with
separate key and fill inputs, Clip, gain and opacity are configured independently in each MCPM
or MCE.

• Squeezeback. A 2-D squeezeback generator allows smooth squeeze transitions. Size, position
and crop attributes are configured independently in each MCPM or MCE.

S The “mixer/keyers” have no squeezeback generator. When a control panel attaches a

“mixer/keyers,” squeezeback buttons and squeezeback settings are disabled.

S The MCPM-SDHD and MCE provide enha nced squeezeback — two squeez eback images

with optional audio.

• Logo keyers. MCPMs (and MCEs) stores multiple logos in memory. Logo layer A is “pre­squeeze” (upstr eam of the squeezeback generator), while Logo layer B is “post-squeeze”
(downstream of the squeezeback generator). There are several types of logos.

S The “mixer/keyers” have one logo — logo B. When a control panel attaches a “mixer/key-

ers,” logo A buttons and logo A settings are disabled.

• Master fade to black. MCPMs (and MCEs) provide a master fade-to-matte function, with auto­matic transition control.

S The matte c an be conf igured as any color, not just bla ck.

• GPIO. Control panels have two optically isolated inputs that can sense external events and two
relay outputs that can trigger external events. Control panels can also monitor and control
MCPM or MCE GPIO functions.

• Audio metering and monitoring.

The audio section has identical buses for two audio monitors, A and B, and an audio metering
bus. These buses have direct access to program, preset, off-air signals (if cabled), and an auxil­iary input (if cabled) with dedicated level controls. Monitor A and monitor B each have a
“Dim” func tion.

2. Introduction

Control Panel Fea tures

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2. Introduction

Control Panel Features

Limi tations

The SCP c annot has control the preview or aux output functions of an MCE.

The SCP doe s not support router pre-select for audio overs.

The SCP does not c ontrol, or provide status for, individual audio channels.

The SCP does not support audio macros.

Although the SCP does support Intuition XG, it does not have a menu in which you can select XG
clips. However, it ca n cue and tr ansition XG clips that have been selected on another panel.

• Bank select. The SCP s upports up to 16 “virtual” main source buttons and maps those virtual
sources to physical source buttons. Using a bank selection button, you can choose between two
sets of “ virtual” buttons.

• A hierarchical c ustomer-definable menu system.

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Chapter 3 describes the structure and functioning of the Simple Control Panel (SCP). It presents the
following topics:

• SCP S umma ry

• Functional Sections of the SCP

• Connectors

SCP Summary

The SCP is a 3RU rack-mountable master control panel. I t is 3.17″ deep overall. At the front of the
panel are 41 color-coded LCD buttons and 6 knobs (a.k.a. rotary encoders). Each LCD button has a
64×32 graphic display that usually shows 3 lines of text, 8 characters per line. Sometimes a button
can show graphics, as does the ‘Transition’ button at the lower right.

Three knobs at the f ar right control audio output levels. Two knobs at the bottom of the panel con­trol audio monitor levels. The remaining knob (a t the bottom) is for scrolling through lists and
selecting items from lists.

Fig ur e 3 -1 . S C P ( f ro nt v i e w)

At the rear of the panel are two power connections, an Ethernet port, a fan, a nd a GPI/alarm con­nector. See GPI/Alar m on page 33 for mor e inf ormation.

Figure 3 -2. SC P (rea r view)

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SCP Summa ry

Panel Buttons

Buttons appear in several colors and 3 brightness levels: off, low-tally, and high-tally.

Buttons allow you to choose sources and video effects and to make menu selections. Some buttons
display status. Pr essing a button usually selects something. H owever, nothing happens when you
push a button that is disabled or off and nothing happens when you push a button that merely dis­plays status.

The buttons on the panel display the following colors:

Low Green Low Blue Low Violet Low Orange Gra y High Red

High Green High Blue High Violet High Orange White High Amber

In addition to these 12 colors, a button can be dark (that is, off, or having no color). H igh red and
high amber usually indic ate warnings.

The following color scheme usually applies. Exceptions will be noted.

• Non-se le cted state: low tally — green, blue, violet, or orange.

• Selected state: high tally — green, blue, violet, orange, or red.

• Navigation-only: gray.

S A gray button is always safe to press because it will never impact the MCPM behavior.

• Status-only: w hite with black letters. Status buttons do nothing when pressed.

Some buttons are toggles. Pressing a deselected toggle button w ill cause it to become selected.
Pressing a selected toggle button will make it deselected.

Some groups of buttons operate a s a mutually exclusive se t. Pressing a deselected button will cause
it to become selected and all other buttons in the set to become deselected. There are two types of
mutually exclusive buttons:

1 Pressing a selected button makes it deselected. (All other buttons in the set remain deselected.)

2 Pressing a selected button has no effect: the button remains selected.

Panel Knobs

Turning a knob clockwise increase s the associated value until the maximum value is reached. After
that, turning the knob c lockwise has no effect.

Turning the knob counter-clockwise decreases the associated value until the minimum value is
reached. After that, turning the knob counter-clockwise has no effect.

The function assigned to a knob might be disabled. In that case, turning the knob does nothing. For
instance, when a list contains 7 or few er items, scrolling through the list is disabled, and the knob is
also disabled. The LED above the scroll knob illuminates when scr olling is enabled.

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Figure 3-3 shows the location of the SCP’s function button gr oups and knobs.

3. The Cont rol Panel

Functional Sections of the SCP

3

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2

6

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1 Program bus 4 Layer buttons 7 Scroll/select knob

2 Preset bus 5 Audio level knobs 8 Monitor knobs

3 Main source buttons 6 Menu buttons 9 Transition button

Following are brief descriptions of each section:

1 Program bus

The 16 buttons of the program and preset buses include main source buttons and “layer” but­tons. The layer buttons can be configured as video effects (including XG keyer layers), or audio
overs. (Your SCP will have from 0 to 16 main sources.)

Whatever main source, vide o effects, and audio overs are se lected on the program bus f orm the
program output of the MCPM or MCE that is currently controlled by the SCP.

2 Preset bus

The preset bus allows you to set up the state of the program output that will exist after the next
transition.

The preset bus and program bus have the same button functions, in pairs. The function assigned
to a program button is also assigned to the preset button dir ectly beneath it.

Whatever main sour ce, video effects, and audio overs are selected on the preset bus form the
preview output of the MCPM or MCE that is currently controlled by the SCP.

3 Main sour ce buttons

The leftmost buttons (on preset and program) represent main sources only. Button mapping and
router pre-select f unctions allow an operator to select sources from a large pool of sources.

A bank select button allows the operator to switch between two banks of “virtual” buttons. With
or without bank se lect, the number of virtual buttons is limited (by MCPM and MCE architec­ture) to 16.

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Main sour ce buttons are usually green, high or low tally, except w hen a source is used as an
audio breakaway. Then, it is violet. If a main source has a problem (e.g., LOS or non-sync), it is
high amber when unselected and red when selected.

Main source buttons of the program bus (only) can be c onfigured so that when their source is
selected, they appear in one of 3 c olors:

• High-tally green. (This is considered norma l and matches the behavior of source buttons on
the other buses.)

• High-tally white.

• High-tally red. (Although red is the color normally used to represent LOS or a non-sync
source, in this case it does not necessarily imply LOS or a non-sync er ror. The button
legend, however, does indicate whether the source is good or bad.)

Main source buttons on other buses do not have this option.

See Main Source Selection on page 19 for more detail.

4 Layer buttons

The rightmost buttons (on pr ogram and preset) can be configured as video effects (including
XG layers) and audio overlays.

Although it is possible to order the layer buttons in any way, the ordering of video effects and
audio overs is fixed in the MCPM or MCE where they are actually executed. Video effects are
downstream of all sources. Audio overs are also downstream of all sources.

S The MCE uses either one or two keyers to render XG layers. XG clips therefore occupy the

place of those keyers in the video effect ordering. (If two keyers are use d, they must be key­ers 3, for program, and 2, for preset. If one keyer is used, it can be any of the 3 keyers.)

Vide o effect buttons are blue, high or low tally. Audio over buttons are violet. If a problem
exists (e.g., LOS or non-sync), the button is high amber when unselected and red when selected.

See Layer Section on pa ge 22 f or more detail.

5 Audio level knobs

There are 3 rotary knobs for adjusting the audio output level of the source selected on preset or
program, and the audio “over/main” ratio for either preset or pr ogram.

See Audio Levels Section on page 31 for more detail.

6 Menu buttons

The 8 menu buttons allow you to view the state of MPCM or MCE parameters and SCP param­eters and to sele ct or modify operating parameters. The menu structure is hierarchical. There
are two kinds of menus: system-defined and customer-defined.

The menu pr ovides such f unctions such as system status, audio status, channel selection, trig­gering GPI events, and panel lock.

(It is in the menu that operators set the transition type and transition rate. Other control panels
have physical buttons for these functions.)

See Menu Section on pa ge 28 f or more detail.

7 Scroll/select knob

The scroll/select knob allows you to scroll through lists of options, sources, and other items a s
you make menu selections. The LED above the button lights when scrolling is enabled.

See Menu Section on pa ge 28 f or more detail.

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8 Monitor knobs

An MCPM has 2 audio monitor buses, A and B. The 2 monitor knobs allow you to increase or
decrease the audio monitor levels. You can “dim” (attenuate) the monitor level using an audio
menu. When the monitor is dimmed, the LED above the monitor knob lights.

(Menu func tions exist for meter outputs, but there are no meter knobs.)

See Monitors Section on page 32 for more detail.

9 Transition button

The transition button displays the transition type (as a graphic) and the transition rate (in text).
‘Cut’ transitions involve no rate and therefore display no rate text.

The button is bright orange for non-pre-roll transitions. It is low-tally red and the word “Pre­roll” appears on the button when a pre -roll transition is pending.

Pressing the transition button initiates a transition in the MCPM or MCE according to the SCP
setup. You can change the transition rate and type using the menu (if the SCP configuration per­mits it).

See Transition Section on page 30 for more detail. See Transitions in the NV5100MC Master
Control Reference Manual for additional information.

Main Source Selection

Figure 3-4 shows the default set of main source buttons of the program and preset buses:

Figure 3-4. Fixed Main Source Buttons

The def ault set has 8 physical main source buttons. Your SCP can have from 0 to 16 main source
buttons. The main source buttons and layer buttons together form two buses:

Program Selections on the program bus compose the program output of the currently selected

MCPM (or MCE).

Preset Selections on the preset bus compose the preset output of the currently selected MCPM

(or MCE).

The preset bus (and its preset output) allow you to set up new output for the program bus. When the
new output is correct, you pr ess the transition button and the MCPM or MCE transfers the contents
of the preset bus to the program bus.

S You cannot operate the preview or aux buses of an MCE w ith an SCP.

Each bus has 16 buttons. The leftmost buttons are fixed as main source buttons. The rightmost but­tons can be configured as video effects (including XG layers), or audio overs. Each main source is
represented by a preset/program button pair, one above, one below. The paired buttons have the
same legend and represent the same source. Similarly, each video effect is a preset/program pair
and each a udio over is a preset/program pair.

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Depending on configuration, your SCP might have as many as 16 source buttons. It might have as
many as 10 video effect buttons and 2 audio overs. Trade-offs will have been made. Some buttons
might actually be unassigned.

Your SCP might be configured with a “bank select” button in the menus. If it has a bank select but­ton, you can switch between banks of source button definitions. When you switch banks, the source
mnemonics of the selected bank appear on the physical buttons.

In any case, up to 16 source button definitions are available, in one bank or the other. (The control
panel can actually access mor e than 16 sources — thousands in fact — because of button mapping
and router pre-select.)

Generally, main source buttons are mutually exclusive. Pressing one selects tha t source and dese­lects an other source. The exception is when you are performing a video or audio breakaway and
you can have both a video source and a n audio source selected. Video effects are independent and
not mutually exclusive. Audio overs are mutually exclusive.

There are 3 kinds of main source buttons:

Static The main source assigned to the button does not change.

Modifiable If a button is “user-modifiable,” an operator can change the source

Router pre-select The user (or automation) can assign a router source to the button. (This

assigned to the button. If a button is “system-modifiable,” automation can
change the source assigned to the button.

A button can be both user-modifiable and system-modifiable.

requires the presence of an NV9000 Router Control System.)

Although there is a finite number of main source buttons, the user (or automation) can select any of
128 main sources or any router source (if the MCPM configuration permits it).

Main Sour ce Button C haract eris tics

The main source buttons displa y an 8-character source name on the top text line of the button:

1 The name is fixed if the source is defined as static in the MCPM or MCE configuration.

2 The name is dynamic if the source is defined as rout er pre- select in the MCPM or MCE config-

uration. (The source state and source name come from the NV9000 system.)

3 The name is dynamic if the source is defined as modifiable in the MCPM configuration.

See the Source Selection buttons on page 36.

The main source buttons use the following color scheme:

Dark Button is not in use.

Low Green Not selected.

High Green Selected video.

High Violet Selected audio during breakaway.

High Red Video source is non-sync or LOS, or audio source is LOS.

The exception to this sc heme is that main source buttons of the program bus (only) can be config­ured so that when their source is selected, they appear in one of 3 colors:

• High-tally green. (This is considered normal and matches the behavior of source buttons on the
other buses.)

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• High-tally white.

• High-tally red. (Although red is the color normally used to represent LOS or a non-sync source,
in this case it does not necessarily imply LOS or a non-sync error. The button legend, however,
does indicate whether the source is good or bad.)

Main source buttons on other buses do not have this option.

The main source buttons display the source status on the second and third text lines of the button. If
status is “OK,” there is no message text. These are the messages:

1 Video LOS 3 Video Non-Sync 5 Audio Problem

2 Audio LOS 4 Dolby Non-Sync 6 Backup Audio

The numbers here show the priority of the messages (in case more than one condition arises).

“Hot Cuts”

When you press a button on the program bus, whether main source, video effect, or audio over, the
SCP will request the MCPM or MCE to perform a “hot cut” on the program bus. The MCPM or
MCE performs the hot cut without benefit of a transition.

Caution Hot cuts are not recommende d. You can expect video and audio artifacts when you

perform hot c uts.

In a hot c ut, the video processor might lose some ancillary data, such as AFD,
because the video processor cannot acquire it in time. (Without AFD, for example,
the video can appear with the wrong aspect ratio.)

Although the MCPM or MCE can recover in one frame or less, other downstream
equipment might not be able to recover the signal as quickly. If the AFD information
is lost, a frame synchronizer or aspect ratio converter can require a significant num­ber of frames to adjust to the new video signal and its format. Dolby E decode rs can
require several seconds to re-sync.

You may correct problems with hot cuts, but must expect a certain amount of time
for the on-air signal to re-sync, up to several seconds, depending on the equipment
installed.

Breakaway

Normally, only one source will be selected at a time on either bus. “Breakaway” allows you to take
the video from one source and the audio from another source. During breakaways, one button
selects the video source and another button on the same bus selects the audio sour ce.

You w ill use the ‘Video Only’ and ‘Audio Only’ breakaway buttons (which can be found in the
menus) to perform a breakaway source selection:

1 If neither ‘Video Only’ nor ‘Audio Only’ are selected:

You cannot make a breakaway selection. The SCP w ill r equest the MCPM or MCE to perform
a normal ( video and audio) se lection on the prese t bus. The button you press goes high-tally
green.

2 If ‘Video Only’ is selected:

The SCP will request the MCPM or MCE to perform a video-only selection on the preset bus.
The button you press goes high-tally green.

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3 If ‘Audio Only’ is selected:

The SCP will request the MCPM or MCE to perform an audio-only selection on the preset bus.
The button you press goes high-tally violet.

4 The breakaway buttons are mutually exclusive. You cannot select ‘Video Only’ and ‘Audio

Only’ at the same time.

See Using Brea kaways on page 67 for usage information.

Flip-Flop Mode

The default SCP operating mode is “flip-only.” In flip-only mode, when you press the Transition
button, the preset bus selections transition to program and remain on preset. Both buse s are ide nt i-
cal at this point.

The alternative is called “flip-flop” mode, where the program and pre set bus selections swap after
the transition.)

S The SCP c an be configured to start in e ither flip-flop or flip-only mode.

Modifiable Buttons

Any of the main source buttons can be a “pre-select” router button. When a button is so de signated,
you can use the menus to change the button’s source. The button’s legend will show the new source
mnemonic, and audio and video from that router source will be available for use.

S Pre-select router buttons require the pr esence of an NV9000 Router Control System.

Any of the main source buttons can be configured a s a “user-modifiable” button or “system-modifi­able” button, or both, where you can a ssign any main source to the button using the menus. The
source’s name then appears on the button and the source can be selected.

Layer Section

Figure 3-5 shows the default layer section and some a rbitrary b utton assignments:

Keyer 1 Logo A Squeeze Keyer 2 Key er 3 Logo B Ove r 1 Over 2

Fi g u r e 3 - 5. L a y e r S ec ti o n

The default layer section has 8 buttons. Yours might have as many as 10 video effect buttons and 2
audio over buttons.

As stated previously, the main source buttons and layer buttons together form two buses:

Program Selections on the program bus compose the program output of the currently selected

MCPM (or MCE).

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Preset Selections on the preset bus compose the preset output of the currently selected MCPM

(or MCE).

The preset bus allow you to se t up new output for the program bus. When the new output is c orrect,
you press the transition button and the MCPM or MCE transfers the contents of the preset bus to
the program bus.

S You cannot operate the preview or aux buses of an MCE w ith an SCP.

Each bus has 16 buttons. The leftmost buttons are main source buttons. The rightmost buttons can
be configured as video effects (including XG layers), or audio overs. Each video effect and audio
over is re presented by a preset/program button pair, one above, one below. The paired buttons have
the same legend and represent the same source.

Depending on configuration, your SCP can have up to 10 video effect buttons and up to 2 audio
overs. Some buttons might be unassigned.

Video Effects

On each bus, selected video effects overlay the selected main video source. Video effects are cumu­lative and apply in this order: (main source), key1, logoA, squeeze, key2, key3, logoB.

• Any one effect (key, logo, or squeezeback) is electronically downstream and visually in front of
all the effects preceding it in the order.

• Any one effect is electronically upstream and visually in back of all the effects following it in
the order.

“Dow nstream” effe cts modi fy “upst ream” effects a nd the main source. Upstrea m effects neve r
modify downstream effects. For example, a squeezeback effect transforms the main source and
keyer 1 and logo A (if they are enabled) but not keyers 2 and 3 or logo B.

S Please note: the order and number of effects on the buttons does not affect the order in whic h

the MC P M appli es the effe cts . Al so, the ma in sourc e is al wa ys upstrea m of any effect.)

S The MCE uses either one or two keyers to render XG layers. XG clips therefore occupy the

place of those keyers in the video effect ordering. (If two keyers are used, they must be keyers
3, for program, and 2, for preset. If one keyer is used, it can be any of the 3 keyers.)

Not a ll MCPMs support all effects. If the currently selected MCPM does not support the effect, the
button (pair) is dark.

If an effect is selected on program (high-tally), it cannot be changed on preset. You must remove
the effect from program before changing the effect on pr eset.

The video effect buttons use the following color scheme:

Dark The video e ffect is not supported by the MCPM.

Low-tally blue The video effect is not selected.

High-tally blue The video e ffect is selected.

High-tally amber An unselected video effect has a problem ( e.g. non-sync or LOS). Amber

High-tally red The selected video effect has a problem (e.g. non-sync or LOS). Red is an

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is a warning that you might not want to use the effect.

error flag: you have chosen a non-functioning effect.

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The three lines of text on a video effect button a re used as follows:

• The top line of the video effect button displays in reverse video and shows the name of the
video effect. The names are fixed: ‘KEY 1’, ‘ KEY 2’, ‘KEY 3’, ‘SQZ’, ‘LOGO A’ and
‘LOG O B ’.

• The middle line displays the mnemonic of the video e ffect setting curr ent ly selected for the
video effect.

See Video Effect Selection on page 36.

• The bottom line displays the status of the video effect if there is a problem. The line is blank if
there is no problem.

Key ers

The 3 keyer button pairs are independent toggles. A keyer is active when its button is selected
(high-tally) and inactive when its button is low-tally. (A keyer cannot actually be used when it is
non-sync or LOS.)

A keyer is usually a pair of discrete video sources — a key and a fill. The key forms a mask for the
fill. (Some keyers derive their key values from the luminance of their fill source and do not require
a separate key source.)

A keyer source overlays the upstream source and effects with a specified opacity and several other
parameters that control the key values.

Any keyer button can be associated with one of 8 keyer sources (key and fill).

Lo go s

The 2 logo button (pairs) are independent toggles. A logo is active when its button is selected
(high-tally) and inactive when its button is low-tally.

A logo is type of keyer that is stored in MCPM or MCE memory. A logo can be animated or static.
A logo has self-contained key and fill values.

A logo overlays the main source (and any upstream effects) with a specified opacity and several
other parameter that control its key values and position in the video frame.

Any logo button can be associated with one of logos stored in the MCPM or MCE.

Squeezeback

The squeezeback button (pair) is an independent toggle. A squeezeback effect is active when its
button is selected (high-tally) and inactive when its button is low-tally.

A squeezeback e ffect sc ales (or crops) the existing main source image to a portion of the video
frame and unde rlays the scaled image with a background video image from a discrete background
source.

A squeezeback effect does not overlay the main source (or upstream effects) but transforms every­thing upstream spatially. Squeezeback parameters control the final size and position of the
squeezed image.

The squeezeback button can be associated with one of 32 squeezeback settings.

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Enhanced Squeezeback

The MCPM-SDHD and MCE support e nhanced squeezeback. Enhanced squeezeback uses a sec­ond video source (with audio) in addition to the squeeze background.

Enhanced squeezeback parameters can be a ssociated (in MasterConfig) with any of the 32 basic
squeezeback settings. The second video source can be mixed (1) under the primary squeeze back­ground, in which ca se it is invisible, (2) under the squeezed image, or (3) over the squeezed image.
The second video source can be opaque, tr ansparent, or partially transparent.

You need do nothing to select enhanced squeezeback beyond remembering whic h squeezeback set­tings are enhanced and which a re not. However, there are two options:

• Selecting a source for the secondary video (using button mapping).

• Mixing the audio of the secondary source with program audio. The secondary a udio, if config­ured, is selectable as an audio over.

See Working with Squeezeback on page 72 f or details.

Video Effect Source Status

A video effect button displays its source status on the third text line of the button. These are the sta­tus messages. The table shows the priority of the messages (in case more than one condition arise s).

1 LOS (Key ) 3 Mis sing (Lo go) 5 B ackg round LO S (Sqz) 7 Backg rou nd NS (Sqz)

a

2NS

a. NS = non-sync

(Key ) 4 P roblem (Lo go) 6 Image2 LOS (Sqz) 8 Image2 NS (S qz)

If status is “OK,” there is no message text. “Image2” is applicable only to enhanced squeezeback.

Settings

The MCPM allows a number of video effect se ttings:

Keyers Up to 8 settings Up to 16 sources (key and fill)

Logos Up to 64 settings Up to 64 logos

Squeezeback Up to 32 settings Up to 32 sources

A “setting” is a named parameter set as defined in the MCPM configuration software. Each setting
can use a distinct source or distinct sources. You can se lect various video effec t settings in the
menus.

XG L aye rs

An MCE (that is configured for Intuition XG) allows up to 4 “XG layers” and therefore the SCP
allows up to 4 ‘XG layer’ buttons.

The XG la yer buttons appear on the program bus and on the preset bus if the MCE was configured
for it. T he XG layer buttons are actually present, but disabled and dark, on the preset bus if the
MCE was not configured to use the preset bus.

Each XG layer button can be assigned an XG clip f or a transition. As a transition progr esses, the
Intuition XG mixes its layers (as video and audio) before they reach the MCE. The MCE keyer
assigned to the program bus then mixes the output of the Intuition XG processor with the MCE’s
program output.

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The MCE might also mix a preview of the XG clip(s) onto the preset bus. Again, this depends on
the configuration of the MCE.

When the panel controls an MCE configured for Intuition XG, one or tw o of its keyers buttons
becomes disabled, depending on the MCE configuration. If the Intuition XG processor ha s 2 cha n­nels, the MCE uses keyers 2 and 3 to render the layers. Therefore, the XG layers occur post­squeeze or downstream of the squeeze effect (if any). If the Intuition XG processor has 1 channel,
the MCE can use any of the 3 keyers including keyer 1 which is pre-squeeze. Consult your admin­istrator to determine which keyers are used for XG layers. It is usually possible to determine this by
experimentation.

The Intuition XG mixes its layers in the order in which they are numbered. Lower-numbered layers
are “upstrea m” and “downstream” layers have visual priority over upstream layers.

S Squeezeback e ffects and a udio overs controlled by XG clips are not affected by the ordering of

XG layers. Squeeze back is always governed by the fixed video effect or dering of the MCE.

The button colors are the same for X G layers as for any other video e ffect. If there is any problem
with the XG layer, the button displays ‘PROBLEM’.

You cannot use the SCP to select XG clips. You must use another panel. However, once the clip(s)
are selecte d, the SCP can use them in tr ansitions.

MCEs ca n be configured so that pressing an ‘XG layer’ button also selects the XG over (an audio
over dedicated to carrying Intuition XG audio) at the same time.

Au dio Ov ers

Unlike vide o effect buttons, the 2 audio over buttons on the program bus are mutually exclusive.
The 2 audio over buttons on the pr eset bus are also mutually exclusive. When an over button is
selected, its associated audio over contributes to the audio on that bus. The other audio over source,
if any, is off.

There are 3 kinds of over source buttons:

Static The over source assigned to the button does not change.

Modifiable If a button is “use r-modifiable,” an operator ca n change the source

assigned to the button. If a button is “system-modifiable,” automation can
change the source assigned to the button.

A button can be both user-modifiable and system-modifiable.

Router pre-select The user (or automation) can assign a router source to the button. (This

requires the presence of an NV9000 router control system.)

On each bus, a selected audio over mixes with the main audio source. The ratio of “over” audio to
main audio is fully adjustable.

S An over function mixes the selected audio source to air, but it does not trigger audio playback.

Audio ove rs do not ha ve any parameters that you can change other than the over-to-main source
ratio. An audio over can be configured with a specific ratio. The default is 50/50. You can assign
any of 4 local audio over sources to a user-modifiable over button using the button map menu.

The ratio of “over” audio to program audio (or to preset audio) is fully adjustable using the ‘Over
Ratio’ knob in the audio levels section.

An MCE configured for Intuition XG allows you to select a dedicated “XG Over.”

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The MCE and MCPM-SDHD allow you to select an over dedicated to audio from squeezeback
image 2.

Audio Over Button Characteristics

The audio over buttons use the following color scheme:

Low-tally viole t The audio over is not selected.

High-tally violet The audio over is selected.

High-tally red The selected audio has a problem (e.g. non-audio or LOS).

The three lines of text on an audio over button a re used as follows:

• The top line of the audio over button displays in reverse video the word “OVER.”

• The middle line displays the mnemonic of the audio ove r source currently selected.

• The bottom line displays the status of the audio over if there is a problem. The line is blank if
there is no problem.

Audio Over Source Status

An audio over button displa ys its source status on the third text line of the button. These are the sta­tus messages. The table shows the priority of the messages (in case more than one condition arise s).

1LOS

2Problem

3Backup

If status is “OK,” there is no message text.

S An audio over button is needed when you are mixing the audio of an enhanced squeezeback

effect to program output.

Intuition XG

The Intuition XG processor delivers XG clips with up to to 16 channels of audio. The MCE pro­cesses this audio through a dedicated a udio over — the “X G ove r.”

Further, an XG clip can use, and control, any of the MCE’s audio overs. These include the 4 overs
definable in the MCE configuration, the over dedicated to squeezeback audio, and the over dedi­cated to the audio from XG clips.

The MCE’s audio overs are mutually exclusive. It is not possible to ha ve more than one audio over
operating at any point in time.

MCEs ca n be configured so that pressing an ‘XG layer’ button also selects the XG over (an audio
over dedicated to carrying Intuition XG audio) at the same time.

Othe r Layer Topi cs

Vide o effects and audio overs behave according to flip-flop mode a nd flip-only mode.

You can per form “hot cuts” directly on the program bus in the layer section. Hot cuts are not rec-
ommended.

S The MCPM-MK-SD and -HD have only logo B and no squeezeback ge nerator. If the SCP is

controlling an MCPM-MK-SD or -HD , its logo A and squeezeback buttons are disabled and
related functions in the menus are disabled. The clean feed taps indicated with asterisks are not
available.

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S The MCPM-SDHD has an enhanced squeezeback generator. If the SCP is controlling an

MCPM-SDHD, you can exercise additional options. See Working w ith Sque ez eback on
page 72 for details.

S The MCE has two independent clean-feed outputs.

Menu Section

Figure 3-6 shows the menu section:

Fig ur e 3 -6 . M e nu S ec t i on

The 8 menu buttons in this section allow you to

• Select transition types and r ates.

• Perform breakaways.

• Select a channel (i.e, an MCPM or MCE).

• Choose main sources, over sources, or router sources.

• Select video effect parameter sets.

• View monitor le vels, audio levels, and other forms of status.

• Vie w software and firmw are revisions.

• Perform GPI and GPO functions.

• Stop and restart the SCP.

• Update the SCP configuration.

The menu system is extremely flexible. The SCP configuration software supports the construction
of a hierarchical (or tree-structured) menu system. The SCP ships with a default configuration that
contains a default menu tree. The SCP also comes with software that includes the default configura­tion file. However, a newly created configuration has a menu tree that is essentially empty. The
configurer has the option of (1) starting with the default menu tree or (2) starting with the empty
menu tree.

Definitions: a menu is a set of 8 buttons, some of which might be blank or disabled. A menu button
(1) executes a function, (2) displays status, or (3) takes you to another menu.

There are 3 kinds of menus:

Main The main menu is unique: it has both fixed and customer-definable buttons.

Fixed Fixed menus are built into the SCP, and are not configurable.

Customer-defined Many customer-defined menus can be configured for each SCP.

After initialization, the panel software always displays the main menu. The main menu is the root
node of the menu tree. The leftmost button is the main menu button (or home button) . The 7 other
buttons in the main menu are configurable and might vary from SCP to SCP.

The main menu button has two different functions during normal

1

panel operation:

1 When the main menu is displayed, go to the panel me n u .

1. The ‘Panel Test’ me nu departs from t his scheme — but it is used in a diagnostic situation, not during normal operation.

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HOME

PANEL

MENU

MENU
NAME

HOME

Functional Sections of the SCP

2 When a submenu is displayed, go to the main menu.

PANEL

MENU

(1) (2)

When a submenu is displayed, the button’s legend shows the submenu name.

The top portion of the button text te lls you where you are; the bottom portion tells you where the
button will take you.

Fixed Menus

The menu tree of your SCP can c ontain one or more of these fixed menus:

List Selection Video Effect Selection “Are you sure?” Menu

Source Selection Panel Menu

HOME

Refe r to Fixed Menus

, on page 35, for detailed information.

Customer’s Buttons

These button types are available to the configurer. You, the user, will find many, if not all, of these
button types in the menu tree of the SCP you are using:

Navigation Breakaway Transition Type

Transition Rate

Audio Monitors and Mete rs Audio Level and Ratio

GPI Emergency Bypass Sa lvo

Channel Selection Pa nel L ock Automation Off

Fade to Bla ck Flip-Flop Behavior Dolby E or “FBA”

Sys t em Status Bank Select Router Pre-Select Menu

Machine Control Intuition XG

Refe r to Menu Buttons

, on page 42, for detailed information.

Scr oll/ Se t Knob

The scroll/set knob is used in conjunction with menu functions.

Related menu f unctions are of tw o types:

1 Those that display a value. The scroll/set knob is a “value” generator. A time/date button is an

exa mple.

2 Those that represent elements of a list. The knob is a selector. It scrolls through the pages of a

list, 7 elements at a time. A source selection menu (list) is an example.

The behavior of the scroll/set knob depe nds on context. Refer to the specific menu button descrip­tion for information.

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FAST

SLOW

SLOW

MEDIUM

Functional Sections of the SCP

The LED above the scroll/set knob indicates when the knob is enabled. When it is disabled, turning
the knob has no e ffect.

Transition Section

Figure 3-7 shows the Transition section — just one button — set away from the other buttons:

Fi g u r e 3 - 7. T r a n s i t io n S e c ti o n

The transition button is or ange under normal circumstances. The transition button is high-tally
while the MCPM or MCE is performing a transition. Otherwise it is low-tally.

However, when a pre-roll transition is pending, the transition button turns red and the button legend
changes to include “Prer oll” with the button gr aphic. During the pre-roll period of the transition,
the button blinks between low- and high-tally red. After the pre-roll completes, the button turns
orange again and remains high-tally until the transition is complete.

S Pre-roll transitions can occur only when you are controlling an MCE that has pr e-roll enabled.

The maximum transition period is 300 frames, which is 10 seconds at 30 fps. The maximum pre ­roll period is also 300 frames. Tr ansitions are timed so that all source pre-rolls complete at the
moment new video must appear on the program bus.

The transition button displays the transition type graphically and shows the transition rate as text
(slow, medium, or fast). These are examples:

FAST

Cu tCut Cut-Fade Cross-Fade (X-

SLOW

Fa d e )

SLOW

V- Fad e ( Fade ­Fa d e )

MEDIUM

Fa d e -C u t

Press this button to start a transition. (The SCP sends a transition request to the MCPM.) If the SCP
is in flip-flop mode, it requests a flip-flop transition. Otherwise, it requests a normal (flip-only)
transition. See Using Flip-Flop Mode on page 88.

S Cut transitions are instantaneous and do not involve a rate. Rate buttons are disabled when the

transition type is ‘cut’.

Please note the following points regarding transitions:

• You can start a new transition only after the current transition has completed.

• You can always interrupt a transition in progress with a hot c ut on the program bus.

• Cut-fade, V-fade, and Fade-Cut involve a fade to a matte color during the transition. The matte
color is defined in the MCPM configuration software and stored in the MCPM or MCE.

• For pre-roll transitions, the pre-roll point is calculated relative to the point at which new video
begins to appear. For V-fades, for example, pre-roll starts relative to the center of the transition
period.

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For pre-roll transitions, you might have to pr ess the transition button before the transition is
required to start. The amount of advance timing actually required depends on several factors,
including the transition type, transition rate, system pre-roll value, and the pre-roll times and
device late ncy of all pre-roll sources on the preset bus. (Pre-roll times for some devices are on
the order of a few seconds and a few frames for other devices.)

Your system might have been designed with a fixed pre-roll period ( a relatively large system
pre-roll value). In that case, advance timing depends only on the transition type and rate.

Audio Levels Section

Figure 3-8 shows the audio level section in which there are 3 knobs:

Fi g u r e 3 - 8. A u d i o L e v e l S e c t i o n

The knobs are red because level changes aff ect on-air levels.

S

Program Knob

You can use this knob to adjust the audio level of the program main s o u rc e or the program over
audio sour ce. If an over button is selected on the program bus, this knob adjusts the over level.
Otherwise, this knobs adjust the main source level.

This knob adjusts the audio level in increments of 0.5 dB, from –108.0 dB to +12.0 dB.

Preset Knob

You can use this knob to adjust the audio level of the preset main source or the preset over audio
source. If an over button is selected on the preset bus, this knob adjusts the over level. Otherwise,
this knobs a djust the main source level.

This knob adjusts the audio level in increments of 0.5 dB, from –108.0 dB to +12.0 dB.

Over Ratio Knob

Use this knob to adjust the ratio of the over audio level to the main audio level on either the pro­gram or preset bus. This knob adjusts the ratio in increments of 0.5% f rom 0 to 100%.

The SCP checks the over buttons to see which applies: the pr eset bus or the program bus. If a pro-
gram over button is selected, the knob a djusts the program over-to-main ratio. If an ove r butt on is

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selected on the preset bus only, the knob adjusts the preset over-to- ma in ratio. If no over buttons are
selected at a ll, turning the knob has no effect.

Please note:

• The preset and program knobs do not adjust the gain of the overall bus — instead, each adjust-
ment is tied to the selected source — main or over.

• It is (now) possible to tr ansition an audio-level c hange only — where the preset source is the
same as the program source and the only difference is the audio level.

• The MCPM includes a “source memory” f unction that stores individual preset and program
audio levels for each input.

Monitors Section

Figure 3-9 shows the monitor section in which the re ar e 2 knobs and 2 LEDs:

Fi g u r e 3 - 9. A u di o M o ni t o r S e ct i o n

Monitor A Knob and LED

Use this knob to adjust the audio level of audio monitor A. This knob adjusts the audio level in
increments of 0.5 dB, from –108.0 dB to +12.0 dB.

Monitor A’s LED is on when the DIM function is turned on for Monitor A . Otherw ise, this LED is
off. You cannot change the monitor’s audio level when the DIM f unction is on.

Monitor B Knob and LED

Use this knob to adjust the audio level of audio monitor B. This knob adjusts the audio level in
increments of 0.5 dB, from –108.0 dB to +12.0 dB.

Monitor B’s LED is on when the DIM function is turned on for Monitor B. Otherwise, this LED is
off. You cannot change the monitor’s audio level when the DIM f unction is on.

Please note:

• Monitor level changes do not affect on-air levels.

• The DIM function, when on, provides a fixed amount of attenuation tha t is applied to the moni­tor output. The amount of attenuation (typically, –20
decreased by the DIM amount. If the monitor output is 6
then the monitor output becomes –14 dB.

• When you change channels, all monitor ing and metering settings also change. The MCPM or
MCE stores all settings in memory, ready for instant recall when the next channel change
occurs.

dB), is configurable. The monitor output is

dB, and the DIM function is –20 dB,

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Connectors

At the rear of the SCP are 2 power connectors, an Etherne t connector, and a GPI/alarm conne ctor.

Power

There are 2 power connectors, PS1 and PS2, for the sake of redundancy. Only one is required, but
with both, the SCP will continue uninterrupted operation if one fa ils.

The PS0001 power supply that comes with the SCP has a 4-pin plug that goes in the connector. The
plugs ar e keyed so tha t you cannot insert the plugs the wrong way:

1

3

n.c.
n.c.

4

2

12VDC
GND

12 VDC

3

n.c.

21GND

4

n.c.

Receptacle

Plug

Connect the line cable to the power supply and then to AC power. Then insert the 4-pin plug into
the SCP’s power connector.

Ethernet

The SCP ha s one RJ-45 Ethernet connector. Connect the SCP to the switch on the master control
network using CAT5 cable or better.

It is on this network that the SCP communicates with MCPMs and with the configuration software.
You (or your system administrator) must provide a unique IP address f or the SCP.

Without the IP address, the SCP cannot communicate with MCPMs, MCEs, or the configuration
software. Use the Panel ID menu under the Panel Menu to set the IP address and IP subnet mask.

The default IP address is 192.168.7.100. and the subnet mask must always be 255.255.255.0.

S Operators generally need not be concerned with the SCP’s network address.

GPI/Alarm

The SCP has a DB25 connector that supports GPI inputs, GPI outputs, and alarms:

COM

NO
NC

11

Minor Alarm

23
10

GPI In 1

8

GND

20



7

+

13

GPI Out 1

5

COM

17

NO

4

NC

unused

1

2
14
1

Major Alarm

COM

NO
NC

25

25

unused

12
24

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GPI Out 2

16

GPI In 2

19

22

9

21

GND

6



18

+

COM

3

NO

15

NC

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Connectors

If you intend to use any of these connections, make the connections a ccording to the following dia­grams.

Customers

Circuit

from internal bus

alarm signal

+5V

+5V

GPI Input n

+



Optical
Isolation

GPI Output n

Alarm Relay

+3.3V

C

E

NC

COM

NO

NC

COM

NO

10K

to internal bus

Customers
Circuit

If your GPI input cable has a ground wire or
shielding, you can connect the ground (o r
shielding) to the associated ground pin on the
DB25 connector. It is not necessary to do so.

The ground pin is not shown here.

The GPI relay and alarm relay
circuits are identical.

N ote: i t i s th e NO c ir c ui t tha t cl os es
when th e G PI output or alarm is
turned on. You can use the NC

Customers
Circuit

circuit as well.

Power applied to the inputs can be from 5 to 24 VDC, and less than 30mA. Typically, 5V at 1mA.
Loads for the outputs can be larger:

Max current: 1 A
Max voltage: 125VAC, 110 VDC.
Max capacity: 62.5 VA, 33W.
Rated loads: 1A at 30VDC; 0.3A at 110VDC; 0.5Aat 125VAC.

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LIST
NAME

HOME

NAME1

NAME2

NAME3

NAME4

NAME5

NAME6

NAME7

Chapter 4 describes the (fixed) menus and menu buttons of the SCP. It presents the following top­ics:

• Fixed Menus

• Menu Buttons

• Default Menus

Any SCP configuration has a menu tree that includes a number of fixed menus and cus tom menus.
Custom menus use combinations of the menu buttons presented in this chapter.

Fixed Menus

Fixed menus are those that are designed into the SCP and c annot be selected or modified during
configuration. This fact is more important to configurers than to operators. However, these menus
have chara cteristics that operators need to understand.

The menu tree of your SCP can c ontain one or more of these fixed menu types:

List Selection Source Selection Video Effect Selection

Panel Menu “Are you sure?” Menu

List Selection

In general, a list menu shows a list of items — one per button — and allows you to select an item in
the list. The menu shows the name (or mnemonic) for every item in the list. The button for the cur­rently selected item is high-tally blue. The other buttons are low-tally blue.

HOME

NAME1

There are several specific list selection menus. T he home button displays the actual list name.

You can select an item in the list by pressing its associated button. If the list has more than 7 items,
the scroll/set knob is enabled. Turn the scroll/set knob clockwise or counter-clockwise to page
through the list (7 ite ms at a time). When you reach e ither end of the list, turning the knob in the
same direction will have no effect.

Sometimes a list menu will show the current selection but not allow you to change the selection. In
these cases, we say that the list is disabled. When the list is disabled, the button for currently
selected item in the list will be high-tally blue and the other items in the list will be low-tally blue
with reverse text.

NAME2

NAME3

NAME4

NAME5

NAME6

NAME7

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Source Selection

Two source selection menus are specific list menus. One menu lets you assign a main source to the
selected main sour ce button on the preset bus. The other lets you assign an audio over source to the
selected over button on the preset bus.

S Note to configurers: these menus correspond to the MCS Panel Configuration Editor’s menu

button types (under Utility):

Preset main button map
Preset over button map

These two menus can be disable d when:

• No (over) source button is selected on the preset bus.

• The (main or over) button selected on the preset bus is also selected on the program bus.

• The (main or over) button selected on the preset bus is not “user-modifiable” in the MCPM or
MCE conf iguration.

Main Source Selection Menu

This menu assigns a main source to a main source button currently selected on the preset bus.
When in breakaway mode, it a ssigns the main source to the button currently selected as the video
on the preset bus.

This menu uses the following list na me: ‘MAIN SRC SELECT’.

When you se lect a source in this menu, the SCP immediately requests the MCPM or MCE to:

• Switch to this main source on the preset bus (When in breakaway mode it will switch only the
video. When not in bre akaway mode it will sw itch the audio and the video.)

• Assign this main source to the selected button.

You can use the scroll/set knob to scroll through the list of main sources if there are more than 7.

Over Sou rce Selection Me nu

This menu assigns an over source to the over button currently selected on the preset bus.

This menu uses the following list na me: ‘OVER SRC SELECT’.

When you se lect a source in this menu, the SCP immediately requests the MCPM or MCE to:

• Switch to this over source on the preset bus.

• Assign this over source to the selected button.

No mor e than 4 over sources can exist. Use of the scroll/set knob is not required.

Video Effect Selection

There are 6 video effect selection menus. They are specific “list selection” menus.

S Note to configurers: these menus correspond to the MCS Panel Configuration Editor’s menu

button types (under ‘Effects Selection’):

Squeeze select Keyer 1 select Logo A select

Keyer 2 select Logo B se lect
Keyer 3 select

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PANEL

MENU

HOME

SYSTEM
STATUS

PANEL

STATUS

PANEL
SETUP

MANAGE

LOG

VERSION

INFO

PANEL

CONTROL

UPDATE
CONFIG

Fixed Menus

When you press a video effect button on the preset bus, you can use the corresponding video effect
menu to select the specific effect you want to assign to the selected button. (When the same video
effect button is selected on the program bus, the menu will be disabled.)

Table 4-1 lists the 6 video effect selection menus.

Table 4-1. Video Effects Menus

List Name Maximum Lis t Size Comme nts

Key er 1 Select 8

Key er 2 Select 8

Key er 3 Select 8

Logo A Select 64 or 400

Logo B Selec t 64 or 40 0

Squeeze Select

a. MCEs support up to 400 logos. Other MCPMs support 64.

b. The MCPM-SDHD supports enhanced squeezeback.

b

32 Not av ail able fo r the MCP M-MK-S D o r MCPM -MK-HD.

Although you can select video effect settings, you cannot c hange any of the pa rameters that apply
to the settings (as you can with the FFCP, CFCP, or GUI).

a

Not av ail able fo r the MCP M-MK-S D o r MCPM -MK-HD.

Panel Menu

The pane l menu is always ava ilable in the ma in menu.

SYSTEM

HOME

STATUS

It provides 6 submenus in addition to a system status button:

Panel Status Panel Setup Manage Log

Version Info Panel Control Update Config

All of the submenus are fixed menus ( and are not list menus).

S Note to configurers: only one of these menus c orresponds to an MCS Panel Configuration Edi-

tor button type: System Status.

Button Color

If the panel’s major alarm is set, the ‘Panel Status’ button will be high-tally red. Otherwise, if the
panel’s minor alarm is set, the ‘Panel Status’ button will be high-tally amber. Otherwise, the button
will be gray. Gray is the normal state for the ‘Panel Status’ button.

The ‘System Status’ button is amber and the ‘Update Config’ button is low-tally green.

Sys tem S tatus

See the System Status button on page 56 for a definition of how this button behaves.

PANEL

STATUS

PANEL
SETUP

MANAGE

LOG

VERSION

INFO

PANEL

CONTROL

UPDATE
CONFIG

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PANEL

STATUS

HOME

MAJOR
ALARM
CLEAR

MINOR
ALARM
CLEAR

POWER

SUPPLY 1

OK

POWER

SUPPLY 2

OK

TEMP

2O
OK

CHANNEL

name

PANEL
SETUP

HOME

SET

IP

ADDRESS

SET

IP

MASK

SET

TIME AND

DATE

SET IP

ADDRESS

HOME

192.

168.

O.

O.

SET

ADDRESS

Fixe d Menus

Panel Status

The ‘Panel Status’ submenu has 6 sta tus entries:

HOME

MAJOR
ALARM
CLEAR

MINOR
ALARM
CLEAR

POWER

SUPPLY 1

OK

POWER

SUPPLY 2

OK

TEMP

2O
OK

CHANNEL

name

1 Major Alarm.

Normally, this button is white and the last line on the button will be ‘CLEAR’. If this alarm is
set, the button is high red and the last line of text will be ‘PROBLEM’.

2 Minor Alarm.

Normally, this button is white and the last line of the button will be ‘CLEAR’. If this alarm is
set, the color will be high amber and the last line of text will be ‘PROBLEM’.

3 Power Supply 1

See Button Color and Text

, f ollowing.

4 Power Supply 2.

See Button Color and Text, following.

5 Temp. The button displays the internal panel temperature in Celsius. The display updates every

5 seconds. See Button Color and Text, following.

6 Channel Status. The button displays the mnemonic of the currently selected MCPM or MCE.

Button Color and Text

The color and the last line of text of the temperature and power supply buttons vary:

• Normally the power supply and temperature buttons are white a nd the last line of text will be
‘OK ’.

• If the button item reaches a w arning state , the color will be high amber and the last line of text
will be ‘WARNING’ .

• If the button item reaches a critical state, the color will be high red and the last line of text will
be ‘PROBLEM’.

Panel Setup

The ‘Panel Setup’ menu ha s 3 entries:

SET

HOME

Set IP Address

The IP address menu allows you to enter the SCP’s IP address.

HOME

Enter the IP address (4 octets) by pressing one of the 4 octet buttons and turning the scroll knob.
The IP address displays on the 4 buttons shown here. When you are finished, press the ‘Set
Address’ button. The ‘Are You Sure’ menu will ask for confirmation. Press ‘Yes’ or ‘Cancel’.

(Normally you would not change the IP address. Your administrator might do so on rare occasions.)

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IP

ADDRESS

SET

IP

MASK

192.

SET

TIME AND

DATE

168.

O.

O.

SET

ADDRESS

Set IP Mask

SET IP

MASK

HOME

255.

255.

255.

O.

SET

MASK

SET DATE

TIME

HOME

MONTH

7

DAY

25

YEAR
2OO7

HOUR

17

MINUTE

42

SECONDS

12

SET

TIME

MANAGE

LOG

HOME

CLEAR

LOG

SAVE

LOG

PANEL

VERSIONS

HOME

APP

SVO718

-O6

REV A

6.1.0

The IP mask menu allows you to enter the SCP’s IP address.

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SET

MASK

HOME

255.

255.

255.

O.

Enter the IP mask (4 octets) by pressing one of the 4 octet buttons and turning the scroll knob. The
IP mask displays on the 4 buttons shown here. When you are finished, press the ‘Set Mask’ button.
The ‘Are You Sure’ menu will ask for confirmation. Press ‘Yes’ or ‘Cancel’.

(Normally, the mask is 255.255.255.0. Normally, you would not change the IP mask.)

Set Time and D ate

The time and date menu allows you to enter the current time and date.

HOME

MONTH

7

DAY

25

YEAR
2OO7

HOUR

17

MINUTE

42

SECONDS

12

SET

TIME

Note that the hour is presented in a 24-hour format.

Change the time and date values by pressing one of the buttons and turning the scroll knob. Con­firm the change by pressing the ‘Set Time’ button. Cancel the change by pressing the ‘Home’ but­ton.

Manage Log

The ‘Manage Log’ menu allows you to save or clear the SCP event log.

HOME

CLEAR

LOG

SAVE

LOG

(Administrators may retrieve the SCP event log using the SCP configuration software.)

Press the ‘Clear Log’ button to clear the contents of the log. Press the ‘Save Log’ button to save the
contents of the log.

Version Info

Choose this menu to display the SCP’s software versions, one module at a time. Use the scroll/set
knob to view the names and version numbers of the different software and firmware modules in the
SCP:

APP

HOME

The information displayed as follows:

Button 2 displa ys the name of the module :

• Main applic ation.

• Front panel application.

• Front panel boot.

• FPGA.

Button 3 displa ys the software part number (“SV” f ollowed by a numeric code). Button 4 displays
the software revision. Button 5 displa ys the software version.

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CONTROL

HOME

TEST

PANEL

RESTART

PANEL

SHUTDOWN

PANEL

PANEL

TEST

HOME

FAN TEST

KNOB
TEST

GPI TEST

BUTTON

AND LED

TEST

FAN

SHOULD

BE ON

EXIT
TEST

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Panel Control

The ‘Panel Control’ menu allows you to perform 3 administrative tasks.

HOME

TEST

PANEL

RESTART

PANEL

SHUTDOWN

PANEL

• Test Panel

Press the ‘Panel Test’ button to activate the ‘Panel Test’ menu. (While the SCP is in the ‘Panel
Test’ menu, none of the buttons, knobs, or LEDs perform their normal functions.)

• Restart Panel

Press the ‘Restart Panel’ button to warm-start the panel. The ‘Are You Sure’ menu will inter­vene to get your confirmation. It takes approximately 75 seconds to restart.

• Shutdown Panel

Press the ‘Shutdown Panel’ button to shut down grac efully (so the SCP can be power ed off
safely). The ‘Are You Sure’ menu will intervene to get your confirmation. When you confirm
the shutdown, the LCD buttons on the preset bus will indicate progress. When all the buttons on
the panel are off, it is safe to switch off power to the panel. It takes approximately 45 seconds to
shut down.

S Warning: do not just disconnect pow er. You can damage the pa nel’s flash memory.

You must cycle power to start the SCP again. (Startup takes about 40 seconds. )

Panel Test

While the SCP is in the ‘Panel Test’ menu, none of the buttons, knobs, or LEDs perform their nor­mal functions.

FAN TEST

HOME

KNOB
TEST

GPI TEST

BUTTON

AND LED

TEST

The ‘Panel Test’ menu has 4 entries:

• Fa n Test.

• Knob Test.

• GPI Tes t.

• Button and L ED Test.

Fan Test

The SCP ha s a cooling fan visible at the rear of the SCP.

FAN

SHOULD

BE ON

EXIT
TEST

The fan te st menu has one entry: “Fan should be on.” Place your hand near the fan to verify that the
fan is running. You will feel a mild air current if it is. Press the ‘Exit Test’ button at the far right to
return to the main menu.

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Knob Test

SCROLL

KNOB

9

MON A

KNOB

7

MON B

KNOB

11

PROGRAM

KNOB

O

PRESET

KNOB

O

OVER
KNOB

O

EXIT
TEST

GPI

OUTPUT 1

GPI

OUTPUT 2

GPI

INPUT 1

ON

GPI

INPUT 2

OFF

EXIT
TEST

SWITCH

TEST

ALL

COLORS

RED

GREEN

BLUE

ALL LEDS

ALL LEDS

REVERSE

EXIT
TEST

The SCP has 6 knobs and the knob test menu has 6 matching entries:

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SCROLL

KNOB

MON A

9

KNOB

MON B

7

KNOB

11

PROGRAM

KNOB

O

PRESET

KNOB

O

OVER
KNOB

O

EXIT
TEST

Turn any knob to test it. When the knob is working properly, the number associated with the knob
(and displayed on the corresponding menu button) increases when you turn the knob clockwise and
decreases when you turn the knob counterclockwise. The range of numbers that these buttons will
display is 0 to 999.

Press the ‘Exit Test’ button at the far right to return to the main menu.

GPI Test

The SCP has 2 GPI outputs and 2 GPI inputs:

GPI

OUTPUT 1

GPI

OUTPUT 2

GPI

INPUT 1

ON

GPI

INPUT 2

OFF

EXIT
TEST

Press a ‘GPI Output’ button to toggle the state of that GPI output. (You can hear the relay switch.)
The ‘GPI Input’ buttons display the state of that GPI input ( either ‘ON’ or ‘OFF’).

Press the ‘Exit Test’ button at the far right to return to the main menu.

Button and LED Test

This menu has 7 test functions:

SWITCH

TEST

ALL

COLORS

RED

GREEN

BLUE

ALL LEDS

ALL LEDS

REVERSE

EXIT
TEST

(Press the ‘Exit Test’ button at the far right to return to the main menu and to restore the normal
operating mode.)

•Switch Test.

Press the ‘Switch Test’ button to put the panel in a test mode where a depressed switch will
light in white as long as you hold it dow n.

• All Colors.

Press the ‘All Colors’ button to cause all of the LCD buttons on the SCP to display one of the
colors supported on the LCD buttons. Use the scroll/set knob to cycle through all of the 64
available colors. The last line of the button will display the color number associated with the
color displayed. Color numbers range from 0 to 63.

• Red, Green, Blue

Press the ‘Red’ button, ‘Green’ button, or ‘Blue’ button to cause all of the LCD buttons on the
SCP to display that color. The 3 LEDs (above Scroll/Set, Monitor A, and monitor B) turn off.

• All LEDs

Press the ‘All LEDs’ button to cause all of the LCD buttons on the SCP to become white and
the 3 LEDs to turn on.

• All LEDs Reverse

Press the ‘All LEDs Reverse’ button to cause all of the LCD buttons on the SCP to become
white and the 3 LEDs to turn on. All of the buttons will be in reverse video to allow you to
examine all of the pixels of all of the buttons.

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ARE
YOU

SURE?

YES

CANCEL

Menu Buttons

Update Con fig

Pressing the ‘Update Config’ button causes the panel to stop the running application, (re)load its
configuration and application, a nd then resume. An update takes about 2 sec onds. The SCP returns
to the main menu automatically.

S It is rarely necessary to use this button.

“Are you sure?” Menu

The ‘Are you sure?’ menu is a fixed menu that appears in the context of another menu where you
are performing some operation that should not take place accidentally:

Press ‘Yes’ to confirm the operation and ‘Cancel’ to cancel it. Pressing cancel restores the previous
menu.

Menu Buttons

These button types are available to the configurer. You, the user, will find many, if not all, of these
button types in the menu tree of the SCP you are using:

Navigation Transition Type Sys t em Status Br eakawa y

Transition Rate Audio Level and Ra tio Automation Off Salvo

Channel Selection Audio Monitors and Mete rs Dolby E or “FBA” GPI

Fade to Bla ck Emergency Bypa ss Flip-Flop Behavior Panel L ock

Bank Select Router Pre-Select Menu Machine Control Intuition XG

Audio Lock

Navigation

A navigation button jumps to another menu — either a custom menu or to one of the following list­selection menus:

1 Main source selection menu.

2 Over source selection menu.

3 Video effect selection menu.

4 Preset main router me nu.

ARE
YOU

SURE?

YES

CANCEL

Navigation buttons are not readily identifiable, although a navigation button is always gray. It is not
important to be able to recognize a navigation button. All you need to know is that it will take you
to another menu. The navigation button will have 3 lines of text (from 0 to 8 c haracters) — assigned
by the configurer — that indicate its function.

S Note to configurers: for a navigation button to jump to any menu, you must have already cre-

ated the menu. It appears in the menus list. To make the navigation button jump to (for exam­ple) a video effect selection menu is not different from assigning (for example) a transition rate
to a button. The video effect selection menus ar e listed in the dialog. Simply choose one.

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Please note:

• If a navigation button is conf igured to jump to a video effect selection menu and the currently
selected MCPM or MCE does not support that video effect, the navigation button will be dis­abled.

• If a navigation button is configur ed to jump to an over source selection menu and the currently
selected MCPM or MCE defines no over sources, or the over source button is not “user-modifi­able,” or no over sour ce button is se lected, the navigation button will be disabled.

• If a navigation button is conf igured to jump to a main source selection menu and the main
source button is not “user-modifiable,” the navigation button will be disabled.

Breakaway

The two types of breakaway buttons are:

1 Video Only.

2 Audio Only.

Breakaway buttons allow you to ta ke video from one source and audio from another source.

The breakaw ay buttons are mutually exclusive. The default state for a ll breakaway buttons is dese­lected. Breakaway buttons do not reflect any state of the MCPM or MCE. The state of these buttons
is local to the SCP.

After you press an enabled main source button on the preset bus, the breakaway buttons become
deselected.

See Using Brea kaways on page 67 for usage information.

Transition Type

There are nine ‘Tra nsition Type’ buttons. (Some of these might not be present in your SCP menu
tree.)

1 Cut.

2V-Fade.

3 Cross Fade (or X-fade).

4Fade/Cut.

5 Cut/Fade.

6 Preset Black Cut/Cut.

7 Preset Black V-Fade.

8 Preset Black Fade/Cut.

9 Preset Black Cut/Fade.

“Preset black” transitions generally apply when you are performing transitions using a transition
lever arm ( TLA). The SCP does not support the TLA, but it does support the 4 pr eset black (PB)
transition types:

1 If you press the SCP’s transition button for a PB transition, the SCP substitutes a matching nor-

mal transition.

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FAST

Menu Buttons

2 Selecting a PB transition on an SCP allows or someone else to perform a PB transition at a TLA

attached to another control panel if the other panel is connected to the same MCPM or MCE.

For transitions in the SCP itself, the SCP substitutes a normal transition that matches the preset
black transition.

The transition type buttons are mutually exclusive. Press one to select the transition type the
MCPM or MCE will use subsequently to execute transitions. The physical transition button dis­plays the transition type (graphic) and rate (text).

If the current transition type in the MCPM or MCE does not match any of the transition type but­tons, all of the transition type buttons will be deselected (low tally).

The menu buttons have a graphic r epresentation of the transition type. Transition type buttons are
green (in the menu).

PB tr ansition buttons and normal transition buttons have slightly different graphics. This is an
example:

Normal
Cut-Fade

PB
Cut-Fade

FAST

FAST

See the default Tr ans(ition) Menu, on pa ge 58.

Transition Rate

There are 3 ‘Transition Rate’ buttons:

1Slow.

2 Medium.

3Fast.

The actual rates (i.e., the duration, in frames, of the transitions) that correspond to slow, medium,
and fast are defined in the MCPM or MCE configuration.

If the current transition rate in the MCPM or MCE does not match any of the transition rate buttons,
all of the transition rate buttons will be deselected (low-tally).

The transition rate buttons are mutually exclusive. Press one to select the transition rate the MCPM
or MCE will use subsequently to execute transitions. The physical transition button displays the
transition type (graphic) and rate (text).

The buttons have no graphics, just the text assigned by the configurer. Transition rate buttons are
green (in the menu).

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A

HOME

PST

PGM

ON AIR

AUX IN

DIM

METERS

HOME

PST

PGM

ON AIR

AUX IN

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Audio Monitors and Meters

MCPMs and MCEs provide outputs for two audio monitors, labeled A and B, and audio meters.
The monitor and meter outputs ca n reproduce audio from 4 sources: the program bus, the preset
bus, from “off air” inputs, and from “aux” inputs. This arrangement is a 4×3 crosspoint matrix:

Preview Audio

Program Audio

Preset Audio
Off-Air Audio

AUX Audio

MCPM MCE

Monitor A Output

Meter Output

Monitor B Output

(Refer to the NV5100MC Master Control Reference Manual for more deta il. )

S Although the MCE has a preview bus, the SCP does not direct preview audio to the monitors

and meters.

Configurers can place 3 audio menus in the menu tree. By default, the se are named MONITOR A,
MONITOR B, and METERS. When you press a monitor A or B menu button, you get a (pre­defined) subme nu of PST, PGM, OFF-AIR, and AUX, DIM and ‘Monitor Level’.

Program Audio

Preset Audio
Off-Air Audio

AUX Audio

Monitor A Output

Meter Output

Monitor B Output

PST

HOME

PGM

ON AIR

AUX IN

DIM

When you press a meter button, you get a (predefined) submenu of PST, PGM, OFF-AIR, and
AUX, but no DIM or level.

PST

HOME

PGM

ON AIR

AUX IN

Use the 4 buttons — PST, P GM, OFF AIR, and AUX — to select which audio source reaches the
monitor or meter. These buttons are a mutually exclusive set.

Both monitors, A and B, have a DIM button associated w ith its audio level. (The meters do not.)
The DIM function reduces the monitor ’s audio level by a fixed configur able amount. For example,
if the present audio level is 6 dB, and the dim function is –20dB, the resulting audio level is –14dB.
(The default atte nuation is –20 dB, set in the MCPM or MCE configuration.)

A DIM button is a toggle. Press it once to activate the function; press it again to deactivate the func­tion. When you press a DIM button, the audio level change is not instantaneous, but quickly ramps
down (or up).

When a DIM function is ac tive, the associated DIM LED (above the monitor knob) is illuminated
and the associated monitor knob is disabled. The DIM function inhibits changing the monitor’s
audio level. You can change the audio level only w hen DIM is off.

The right-most button in the monitor menu is the monitor ’s audio level button:

The graph displayed on the button r epresents th e level in decibels. Eac h
tick m ark re p r ese nt s 3.0 dB. The ma x i mu m is 12 . 0 dB. The minimum is –

108.0 dB. the tick marked with a triangle is 0.0 dB.

Change the mon itor level by turning the monito r’s level knob. Values
below –21.0 dB are not represented gr aphically.

The monitor level button is always white; the other buttons are gr een (and low-tally unless
selected). White in this case means the button is status only; green means the buttons do something.

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S Monitor A, monitor B, and meter output cannot be changed if the configuration of the currently

selected MCPM or MCE does not permit it.

Audio Level and Ratio

There are 6 audio status buttons that can be present in your menu tree:

Program main level Preset main level

Program over level Preset over level

Program main/over ratio Preset main/over ratio

They correspond to the 2 buses and 3 audio knobs. An audio level button is always white. Because
it is a status button, nothing will happen if you press it. If you turn a n audio level knob (program
level, preset level, or over ratio) the associated button updates its display to match the knob.

To adjust an over level, or an over/main ratio, select one over button on the program or preset bus.
To adjust a main source level, deselect all overs on the program and preset buses:

Butt on Adjust ment

Program Main Source Level With no overs on program, turn the ‘Program’ knob.

Program Over Source Level With one over on program, turn the ‘Program’ knob.

Program Over /Main Ratio With one over on program, turn the ‘Over Ratio’ knob.

Preset Main Source Level With no overs on preset, turn the ‘Preset’ knob.

Preset Over Source Level With one over on preset, turn the ‘Preset’ knob.

Preset Over /Main Ratio With one over on preset, turn the ‘Over Ra tio’ knob.

An audio over menu button is disabled if no over button on the associated bus is selected. When an
over button is disabled, it is not dark, but displays just the button name:

S There are up to 8 channels of audio for a main source and for an over source. An audio level

button shows only the level of channel 1.

GPI

GPI means “general purpose interface. (You might also see the term GPIO — general purpose input
and output. The terms are nearly identical in meaning.) A GPI port lets you control an external
device or receive a signal from an external device.

The SCP has a GPI/Alarm connector at the re ar that provides 2 relay outputs (with NO and NC ter­minals) and 2 optically isolated TTL-level inputs. The relays are mechanical. You can hear them
switch. The 2 relays ca n control external devices including an MCPM or MCE. The inputs can
sense external events in your master control system.

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MCPM or MCEs also have 2 GPI inputs and 2 GPI outputs. Combined, there are a total of 8 usable
GPI ports. There are 5 GPI button types that can be prese nt in your menu tree:

Panel GPI input Displays status of either of the 2 inputs on the SCP.

Panel G PI output Controls either of the 2 relays on the SCP.

Combined GPI input and
output

MCPM GPI input Displays status of e ither of the 2 inputs on the currently selected

MCPM GPI output Controls eithe r of the 2 relays on the currently selected MCPM or

Any GPI button will have a legend assigned by the configurer. GPI output buttons are green
(active); GPI input buttons are white (status only).

S An SCP configuration does not allow a GPI port to be represented by more than one button.

GPI Output

A GPI output button (SCP or MCPM) is a toggle: when it is deselected, the associated relay is in its
default state (e.g., “normally open” is open) and when it is selected, the relay’s “normally open”
circuit is closed. (A se lecte d button is high-tally.)

Displays status of any input (SCP or MCPM) and controls any
output (SCP or MCPM).

MCPM or MCE.

MCE (if the MCPM or MCE configuration permits it).

GP I Inp ut

A GPI input button displays the state of a GPI input (SCP or MCPM). There are 2 button options:

• Low -tally means the associated GPI input is on.

• High-tally means the associated GPI input is on.

Consult with your system administrator to determine which options apply to the GPI input buttons
in your SCP configuration.

GPI Inp ut and Output

A combined GPI input and output button performs 2 functions.

• The illumination of the button represents the state of a GPI input as for the GPI input buttons.

• Pressing the button toggles the state of a relay, as for the GPI output buttons. The button dis­plays the state of the designated input, not the designated output.

If necessary, consult with your system administrator to determine which input and output a pplies to
a button of this type and which display option applies.

Emergency Bypass

MCPMs and MCEs have an emergency bypass relay and emergency bypass functions controlled by
the bypass relay. (An MCPM or MCE boots in emerge ncy bypass mode and switches to normal
mode if a set of startup conditions is met).

There are 2 emergency bypass (EB) button types that can be present in your menu tree.

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Emerg ency Bypas s Status

An EB status button displays the state of the emergency bypass relay of the currently selected
MCPM or MCE. This button is high-tally when the EB relay is in its “bypass” state and low-tally,
otherwise.

The EB status button uses these colors:

• High Red — the MCPM or MCE is in EB mode.

• Low Green — the MCPM or MCE is in normal mode.

Pressing an EB status button has no effect.

Emerg ency Bypas s Control

An E B control button is a toggle: Pressing it switches the state of the EB relay of the currently
selected MCPM or MCE.

Like the EB status button, the EB control button uses these colors:

• High Red — the MCPM or MCE is in EB mode.

• Low Green — the MCPM or MCE is in normal mode.

Bank Select

MCPM and MCE architecture presumes that a control panel has 16 source buttons.

The SCP may have up to 16 “virtual” buttons, but probably has fewer than 16 physical source but­tons. A ba nk select button allows you to switch be tween two sets of “virtual” buttons.

A bank select button is a toggle: when you switch to bank A, its sources and button mnemonics are
placed on the physical source buttons. When you switch to bank B, its sources and button mnemon­ics are placed on the physical source buttons.

The conf igurer can assign virtual buttons to physic al buttons in a number of w ays.

• The configurer can define from 8 to 16 physical source buttons.

• The configurer can order the vir tual buttons in any way (as long as the virtual buttons are not
duplicated in a bank).

• Virtual buttons in bank B can duplicate those of bank A. (This feature a llows certain sources
always to appear on physical buttons.)

• Some or all virtual buttons can be skipped or ignored.

Although that is of some theoretical interest, all you need to know is that you can switch between
bank A and B if you have a bank select button.

With bank A, the bank select button is green. With bank B, the bank se lect button is amber.

Salvo

The menu tree of an SCP configuration might have one or more salvo buttons. Pressing a salvo but­ton causes an NV9000 salvo to e xecute. (This button requires a c onnected NV9000 router control
system. Salvos are defined in NV9000-SE Utilities.)

S Note to configurers: salvo buttons can be found in the MCS Panel Configuration Editor’s

“channel” group.

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Channel Selection

An MCPM or MCE is equivalent to a channel. A typical SCP configuration provides a set of chan­nel selection buttons. (You can also select channels in the menus.)

A channel can be configured to invoke an NV9000 salvo when selected. (A salvo could, for exam­ple, switch a bank of monitors to the outputs of the new MCPM or MCE.) Consult your system
administrator to determine which c hannels execute salvos.

Your panel will probably have a default channel which is the channel that is sele cted when the
panel powers up. Your panel might be configured so that its def ault cha nnel is part of a channel
gang. If so, you panel is configured in what is called “automatic gang mode.” Whenever the default
channel is selected, all the channels in the automatic channel gang are selected — as a channel gang.

There are 5 button types for channels:

• ‘Channel’ sele ction.

• ‘No Channels’.

• ‘Gang Channels’ .

• ‘Channel Status’.

• ‘Channel Control’.

Channel Select

A channel is an MCE or an MCPM. Press a ‘Channel Select’ button to select a channel to control.

When you press a ‘Channel Select’ button, all status and c onfiguration data for the newly selected
channel are downloaded to the panel. (It takes about one second.)

‘Channel Select’ buttons are mutually exclusive unless gang selection is enabled.

If “automatic gang mode” is in effect and the c hannel you select is the default channel, the ‘Chan­nel Select’ button causes all channels in the automatic channel gang to be selected. If your panel
has a ‘Cha nnel Gang’ button, it becomes high-tally. T he main channel in the gang (which is the
default channel, and the one to which the button corresponds) tallies green and the follower chan­nels in the gang tally amber.

When “automatic gang mode” is not in effect or you are selecting a channel other than the default
channel, pressing the ‘Channel Select’ button does nothing more than acquire that channel. The
channel button tallies green unless there are problems.

‘Channel Select’ buttons use the follow ing colors:

• Low-tally green. The associa ted MCPM or MCE is not se lected.

• High-tally green. The associated MCPM or MCE is selected and communicating. The channel
is either not part of a gang or it is the main channel in a channel gang.

• High-tally amber. The associated MCPM or MCE is selected as a follower in a channel gang
and is communicating.

• High-tally red. The associated MCPM or MCE is se lected, but the SCP cannot establish com­munication with it.

A channel selection button also displays a mnemonic for the associated MCPM or MCE.

An MCPM or MCE can accept up to 4 concurrent connections: any combination of up to 4 control
panels may acquire the same channel at the same time. If a fifth control panel attempts to connect to

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an MCPM or MCE that already has four control panel connected to it, the fifth control panel’s
request for connection will be ignor ed.

S Note to configurers: only one cha nnel selection button may be assigned to a channel.

No Channels

A ‘No Channel’ button quickly disconnects the SCP from all MCPMs and MCEs. (To restore oper­ation, select any channel.) These are the ‘No Channel’ button colors:

• Green. The SCP is connected to an MCPM or MCE.

• Red. The SCP is not connected to any MCPM or MCE.

S Note to configurers: an SCP configuration can have only one ‘No Channel’ button.

S A “no channel” button is typically used in diagnostic situations.

Gang Channels

A ‘Gang Channels’ button lets you couple two or more channels together for “ ganged” channel
operation. When channels are ganged, any action performed on the “main” channel is also per­formed on all selected “follower” channels. (Follower channel buttons tally amber; the main chan­nel button tallies green.)

A ‘Gang Channels’ button is a toggle: press the “gang” button once to enable gang selection and
press the gang button again to disable gang selection, i.e., to return to single -channel operation.

S You can gang at most 4 channels.

S When gang selection is e nabled, salvos are inhibited.

Your panel might be configured so that its default channel is part of a channel gang. If so, you panel
is conf igured in what is called “automatic gang mode .” Whenever the default channel is selected
(by any means, including panel startup), all the channels in the automatic channel gang are selected
— as a channel gang — and gang selection is e nabled.

You can use the ‘Gang Channels’ button to “un-gang” the automatically selected gang. Note that
the ‘Gang Channels’ button will not restore the gang if you press it again. However, you can use a
‘Channel Contr ol’ button to restore the gang.

While gang selection is enabled, you can add or remove follower c hannels, subject to the limit of 4
channels in the gang.

Channel Status

A ‘Channel Status’ button displays the name of the currently selected channel. It is normally white,
being status-only, and will turn red if the channel has a problem.

If the channe l is the default channel and part of an automatic channel gang, the name that appears
on the button is that of the main channel in the gang.

Cha nnel Co ntrol

A ‘Channel Control’ button is primarily for testing, but might have some use in your facility. A
channel control button reacquires the currently selected channel. A channel control button is white,
displaying the channe l name, but it is also an active button. (A channel control button turns red
briefly while the SCP reacquires the channel.)

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If you have selected the default channel under automatic gang mode, and have subsequently dis­abled gang selection, you can use a ‘Channel Contr ol’ button to restore the default channel’s gang.

Router Pre-Select Menu

The ‘Preset Main Router ’ menu (and its submenus) pre-selects a router source. This menu interacts
with an NV9000 router c ontrol system to get status and perform “takes.”

The main source selected on the preset bus is associated with an NV9000 r outer destination. (This
association will have been made in the MCPM or MCE configuration.)

Selecting a router source is a two-step process: (1) when you press ‘Preset Main Router’, a router
category list appears, from which you select a c ategory, (2) A fter you select a category, a r outer
source list appears, from which you select a source device within the category.

Router Category Menu

This menu is a list-selection menu named ‘MAIN CAT SELECT’.

Use the scroll/set knob to scroll through the list of NV9000 categories.

Pressing a button in this menu (1) selects a category and (2) activates the router source menu with
the sources for the sel ec ted c ate gory.

Router Source Menu

This menu is a list-selection menu named: ‘MAIN SRC SELECT’.

Pressing a button in this list will cause the SCP to request the NV9000 to take (i.e., switch) the
associated N V9000 source to the current NV9000 destination. I f the take f ails, an error message is
displayed. If the take succeeds, the SCP will remain in the router source menu allowing you to
reconsider and select another source (if you want). Press the ‘home’ button to leave the menu.

Use the scroll/set knob to scroll through the list of sources belonging to the category.

After the router source is selected, its mnemonic appears on the selected main source button on pre­set, ready for a transition.

Please note:

• The router preselect source is a video source when in a brea kaway mode.

• The entire router preselect menu is disabled when:

The main source does not have an associated NV9000 destination.

The main source is not “user-modifiable.”

The same main source is selected on both the preset and program buses.

Machine Control

MCEs have features that support machine control and pre-roll. Other MCPMs do not.

The SCP has 10 button functions that also support machine control:

Play Fa s t Forward Cue Pr eroll Ready
Stop Rewind Pause Abort Mark

S The pre-roll and abort buttons belong to the “pre-roll group.” They are not enabled unless the

SCP is controlling an MCE that has pre-roll enabled.

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S The other buttons belong to the “machine c ontrol group. ” They are not enabled unless the SCP

is controlling an MCE that has machine control enabled.

S Some of the buttons are not enabled until their function is possible. For instance, an abort but-

ton is not enabled until a pre-roll is actually executing.

S The machine control buttons ar e disabled unless a machine-controlled source is selected. The

pre-roll buttons are disabled unless a pre-roll source is selected.

The nature of “machine control” can be differe nt for different devices. There are se veral configura­tion options for MCEs that also result in differences. It is important to remember that the effects of
the ma chine control buttons can vary.

The machine control and pre-roll buttons are usually amber. The buttons are high-tally when active
and low-tally when not. Most of the machine control buttons also function as status buttons. They
reflect any opera tions carried out at the device itself.

The machine control and pre-roll buttons ar e disabled (darkened) if the V TR (corresponding to the
selected main source) is not powered up, not c onnected, not in remote control mode, or has its cas­sette ejected.

Play

When the main source device is a VTR, the ‘Play’ button starts normal-speed forward motion of the
tape. T he tape will continue to play until you press another button such as ‘Stop’.

The ‘Play’ button is not affected by pr e-roll.

The ‘Play’ button does not cause a transition and is not affected by preset or program selections. It
might affect progra m content.

The play button goes high-tally when the tape is in play (and therefore can reflect the state of man­ual operation).

Stop

When the main source device is a VTR, the ‘Stop’ button stops any motion of the tape and might
have one or more side effects such as placing the VTR either in a ready or in a not-ready state or
producing a still video frame. The side effects vary from device to device.

The ‘Stop’ button does not affect transitions. It might affect program content.

The stop button goes high-tally when the tape is in stopped (and therefore can r eflect the state of
manual operation).

Fast Forward

When the main source device is a VTR, the ‘Fast Forward’ button starts fast-speed forward motion
of the tape. The tape will continue to fast-forward until you press another button such as ‘Stop’.

The ‘Fast Forward’ button does not affect transitions. It might a ffect program content.

The ‘Fast Forward’ button goes high-tally when the tape is fast-forwarding (and therefore can
reflect the state of manual operation).

Rewind

When the main source device is a VTR, the ‘Rewind’ button starts reverse motion of the tape. The
tape will continue to rewind until you press another button such as ‘Stop’.

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The ‘Rewind’ button does not affect transitions. It might affect program content.

The ‘Rewind’ button goes high-tally when the tape is rewinding (and therefore c an r eflect the state
of manual operation).

Cue

When the main source device is a VTR, the ‘Cue’ button positions the tape at its “pre-roll point”
which relative to the “mark point.” The cue point is earlier on the tape by the amount of pre-roll
delay def ined for the main source that uses this VTR.

If main source’s pre-roll delay is 0, the cue point and the mark point are the same.

The ‘Mark’ button must have been pressed (for the main sour ce) for the ‘ Cue’ button to work.

The ‘Cue’ button does not start or stop a transition. It might affect program content. However, the
cue button is used to ready a VTR for a transition.

The ‘Cue’ button goes high-tally when the tape is at its cue point (and therefore can reflect the state
of manual cueing).

Pause

When the main source device is a VTR, the ‘Pause’ button stops any motion of the tape a nd might
have one or more side effects such as placing the VTR either in a ready or in a not-ready state or
producing a still video frame. The side effects vary from device to device.

The ‘Pause’ might or might not have the same side effects as the ‘Stop’ button, depending on the
VTR.

The ‘Pause’ button does not affect tr ansitions. It might affect program content.

The ‘Pause’ button goes high-tally when the tape is paused (and therefore can reflect the state of
manual operation).

Preroll

When the main source device is a VTR, the ‘Preroll’ button starts a transition w ith pre-roll. Press­ing the ‘Pre-roll’ button is essentially the same as pressing the ‘Transition’ button.

When an operator presses the ‘Preroll’ button, the MCE calculates an effective pre-r oll point based
on pr e-roll values, transition duration and transition type. It starts normal-speed forward motion of
the tape at the point calculated. The tape will continue to play until you press another button such as
‘Stop’.

The ‘Preroll’ button goes high-tally for the duration of the tape’s pre-roll.

(The transition button goe s low-tally red when a pre-roll transition is pending. During the pre-roll
period, the transition button blinks between low- and high-tally red. After the pre-roll period, the
transition button returns to amber.)

S The pre-roll button always causes a non-flip-flop transition.

Ab ort

When the main source device is a VTR, the ‘Abort’ button cancels a transition started with pre-roll.
The oper ator must press ‘Abort’ during the pre-roll period for it to have any eff ect. If the pre-roll
period is short, the operator can fail to abort the tr ansition.

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The ‘Abort’ button does affect transitions. If successfully executed, it protects program content.

The ‘Abort’ button is normally gray. It goes high-tally amber momentarily if it successfully aborts
a pre-roll transition.

Read y

After a certain amount of time, VTRs in the ‘ready’ or “standby/on” state relax the tensioning on
their tapes. When the main source device is a VTR, the ‘Ready’ button causes the VTR to enter or
re-enter the ready state.

The ‘Ready’ button does not aff ect tr ansitions. It might affect progra m content.

The ‘Ready’ button goes high-tally when the VTR is in its ready state (and there fore can reflect the
state of manual operation).

Mark

When the main source device is a VTR, the ‘Mark’ button causes the MCE to identify the current
position of the tape as its “mark point” or “in point.” The cue point is earlier on the tape than the
mark point by the amount of pre-roll delay defined f or the main source.

If main source’s pre-roll delay is 0, the cue point and the mark point are the same.

The ‘Mark’ button does not start or stop a transition. It cannot aff ect program content. However, the
‘Mark’ button — with the ‘Cue’ point — is used to ready a VTR for a transition.

The mark button goes high tally when the tape is at its mark point.

Intuition XG

There is only one Intuition XG button function: ‘XG Keyer Control’. What this button does is turn
off the MCE’s keyers responsible for rendering video from the Intuition XG. You can think of this
button as an emergency kill switch.

The ‘XG Keyer Control’ button is actually a toggle. Press it once to turn off the keyers; press it
again to turn them on. When the keyers are off, the button is low-tally red; when the keyers are on,
the button is low-tally green.

Panel Lock

The intent of the panel lock feature is to prevent the user from accidentally making changes to the
MCPM or MCE while allowing the user to see the status of the MCPM or MCE.

A panel lock button is a toggle. Press it onc e to lock the SCP. Press it again to unlock the SCP.

When the panel is locked:

• The panel lock button is high-tally.

• All other buttons on the panel are disabled (locked).

When the panel is locked and you press the panel lock button, the panel will become unlocked and
the panel will function normally.

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Audio Lock

An ‘Audio Lock’ button is a toggle that enables or disables the audio level knobs on the SCP. (This
feature helps prevent accidental changes to the audio levels)

The button is amber when the audio level knobs are locked and green otherwise.

Automation Off

The ‘Automation Off’ button is a toggle . When this button is high-tally red, the currently selected
MCPM or MCE ignores commands from the automation system (if there is one). When this button
is low-tally green, the MCPM or MCE communicates with the automation system normally.

If the currently selected MCPM or MCE does not allow you to turn automation off and on, the but­ton is disabled (gray).

S Note to configurers: an SCP conf iguration can have only one ‘Automation Off’ button.

Fade to Black

The ‘Fade To Black’ (FT B) button is a toggle. Press it once to fade program output of the currently
selected MCPM or MCE to matte/silence. (The matte color is defined in the MCPM or MCE con­figuration and need not be black.) Press the button again to fade f rom matte/silence to program out­put. Fades occur at the FTB rate def ined in the MCPM or MCE configuration.

These are the button colors:

• High-tally amber. The program output is matte/silence.

• Low-tally green. The program output is nor mal.

Flip-Flop Behavior

The ‘Flip-Flop’ button is a toggle. Press this button once to pla ce the panel in flip-flop mode. Press
it again to place the panel in flip-only mode. The button is green, and high-tally when the panel is in
flip-flop mode.

In flip-flop mode, the pr eset and program buses swap after a transition. In flip-only mode, the pre­set bus remains unchanged after a transition.

S Note to configurers: an SCP conf iguration can have only one ‘Flip-Flop’ button.

Dolby E or “FBA”

MCEs and most MCPMs support Dolby E decoding as an option. An MCPM or MCE that has a
Dolby E main source can also have a backup audio source.

Pressing a Dolby-E control button switches a Dolby-E source to its backup source. This is called
“forced backup audio” or FBA. A Dolby-E status button indicates when a Dolby source is switched
to backup (forced or not).

The SCP ha s 4 D olby-E (or FBA) button types:

• Program FBA Status.

• Program FBA Control.

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• Pr eset FBA St at us.

• Preset FBA Control.

(The text on a Dolby E button is at the disc retion of the configurer.)

Dolby-E Status

A Dolby-E status button uses the following colors to indicate the source’s status:

• Low-tally green. The selected main audio source is not configured for Dolby E.

• High-tally green. The selecte d main audio source is c onfigured for Dolby-E and a Dolby-E
decoder is currently in use.

• High-tally amber. The selected main audio source is configured for Dolby-E and the MCPM or
MCE has automatically switched to backup audio. (A Dolby-E decoder is not currently in use).

• High-tally red. The selected main audio source is configured for Dolby-E and either you have
or your automation syste m has forced the MCPM or MCE to backup audio. (A Dolby-E
decoder is not currently in use).

Pressing a Dolby-E status button has no effect.

Dolby-E Control

This button is a toggle: press it once to force the main source to its backup audio; press it a gain to
revert to the main source. The Dolby-E c ontrol button also displays status as the Dolby-E status
button does.

S Dolby-E buttons are supported in MCPM or MCE software versions 4.5.0 and later.

S Presently, Dolby-E buttons are not supported for the audio overs.

System Status

This button displays general error and warning messages. The Panel Menu (page 37) has a ‘System
status’ button. Your configuration might have more than one.

Table 4-2, following, lists the messages, with the highest priority messages at the top of the list. If
there are no error or status messages to display, this button displays “OK” — the last message in the
table. Dynamic (i.e., temporary, as opposed to static) messages are displayed for five seconds.

Pressing a ‘System Status’ button has no effect.

Table 4-2. System Status Messages

Bu tt on
Te x t

No Pa nel Co nnect Red Sta t ic

No Up date Co nn ect R ed S tatic

MCPM SW Load Problem Red Static

MCPM Config Problem Red Static

Emergency Bypass Mode Red Static

MCPM in D ebug Mo de Red Sta t ic

No Vid eo Refe rence Red S tatic

No Au di o Clock Red Stat ic

Button
Color

Static or
Dynamic Comments

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Table 4-2. System Status Messages

Bu tt on
Te x t

In Bl ack & Sil ence Red Sta t ic

Panel Major Alarm Red Static

Panel Config Problem Red Static

No Pa nel Co nfig Red Stat ic

Panel SW Load Problem Red Static

In Trans Amber Dynamic This message appears when a request fails

Send Cmd to MCPM P roblem Am b er Dy nami c

Rece iv e from MCP M Problem Amber Dy nami c

Minor Panel Alarm Amb er Static

NV90 00 Data P roblem Am b er Dynam i c

Ethernet Problem Amber Dynamic

Int ernal Panel SW Prob lem Am b er Dy nami c

OK Whit e Stat ic

Button
Color

Static or
Dynamic Comments

because the MCPM or MCE is currently in a
tran siti on.

Default Menus

The SCP c omes with a default configuration file. Its default pathname is

C:\Program Files\NVISION\Master Control\config\SCP.uicfg

When the configurer creates a new SCP configuration, it is an empty configuration (except for the
panel menu). Configur ers may loa d the default configuration f rom a file (or from the SCP itself)
and modify it to create additional configurations.

The default configuration includes default menus and the following settings:

• Start in flip-only mode.

• Eight main sour ces buttons (“virtual” buttons 1–8 in bank A, 9–16 in bank B) and the standard
layers (6 video eff ects, and 2 audio overs).

• No NV9000 connections and no categories defined.

• The logging level is ‘Errors’ for all options.

• One channel defined as “Channel 1” — 192.168.7.10 — with no associated salvo. This channel
is flagged as the default channel. (This is without regard to whatever channels you might or
might not have in your system.)

The menus are populated as described in the follow ing text.

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HOME

PANEL

MENU

TRANS

MENU

BREAK

AWAY

VIDEO

EFFECTS

MONITOR

A

METERS

USER

BUTTONS

OTHER

TRANS

MENU

HOME

SLOW

MEDIUM

FAST

BREAK

AWAY

HOME

VIDEO

ONLY

AUDIO

ONLY

TRANS

MENU

HOME

KEYER 1

SELECT

LOGO A
SELECT

SQUEEZE

SELECT

KEYER 2

SELECT

KEYER 3

SELECT

LOGO B
SELECT

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Default Main Menu

The first button from the left is a fixed button named ‘Panel Menu’. Pressing this button will cause
the panel menu to appear. See Pa nel Menu, page 37.

PANEL

MENU

TRANS

MENU

BREAK

AWAY

VIDEO

EFFECTS

MONITOR

A

METERS

USER

BUTTONS

OTHER

12345678

The remaining buttons, 2–8, na vigate to other menus:

2 Trans(ition) Menu.

3 Breakaway Me nu.

4 Video Effects Menu.

5 Monitor A Menu.

6 Meters Menu.

7 User Buttons Menu.

8 Other Menu.

Trans(ition ) Menu

The ‘Trans Menu’ is configured with transition type and rate buttons:

SLOW

HOME

12345678

2 Cross fade (X-fade).

3V-fade.

4 Cut/fade.

5Fade/cut.

6Rate — slow.

7Rate — medium.

8Rate — fast .

MEDIUM

FAST

Breakaway Menu

The ‘Breakaway’ menu is configured as follows:

VIDEO

HOME

ONLY

12345678

2 Video Only.

3 Audio Only.

Video Effects Menu

The ‘Video Effects’ menu is configured as a set of naviga tion buttons:

KEYER 1

HOME

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AUDIO

ONLY

LOGO A
SELECT

SQUEEZE

SELECT

KEYER 2

SELECT

KEYER 3

SELECT

LOGO B
SELECT

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MONITOR

A

HOME

PST

PGM

OFFAIR

AUX IN

DIM

AUDIO

METERS

HOME

PST

PGM

OFFAIR

AUX IN

USER

BUTTONS

HOME

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2 ‘Keyer 1 Select’ menu.

3 ‘Logo A Select’ me nu.

4 ‘Squeeze Select’ menu.

5 ‘Keyer 2 Select’ menu.

6 ‘Keyer 3 Select’ menu.

7 ‘Logo B Select’ menu.

S If the current MCPM or MCE does not support the video effect, the effect button will be off

(dark).

Monitor A Menu

The ‘Monitor A’ menu is configured as 6 buttons:

HOME

12345678

PST

PGM

OFFAIR

AUX IN

DIM

2PST — selects preset as monitor A’s source.

3PGM — selects program as monitor A’s source.

4 OFFAIR — selects the “off air” source as monitor A’s source.

5 AUX — selects the auxiliary source as monitor A’s source.

6(off)

7 Monitor A’s DIM f unction.

8 Monitor A’s audio level status button.

Meters Menu

The ‘Meters’ me nu is configured as 4 buttons:

HOME

12345678

PST

2PST — se lects preset as the me ter ’s source .

3PGM — selects program as the meter’s source.

4OFFAIR — selects the “off air” source as the meter’s source.

5 AUX — selects the auxiliary source as the meter’s source.

PGM

OFFAIR

AUX IN

User Buttons Menu

The ‘User Buttons’ menu is configured as empty:

HOME

12345678

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OTHER

MENU

HOME

AUDIO

SOURCE
SELECT

AUDIO

MENU

HOME

AUDIO

LEVELS

MONITOR

A

MONITOR

B

METERS

DIM A

DIM B

SOURCE
SELECT

HOME

PST MAIN

BTN MAP

PST OVER

BTN MAP

PRESET

MAIN

ROUTER

PROGRAM

PRESET

HOME

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Other Menu

The ‘Other’ menu is configured as configured as 2 navigation buttons:

AUDIO

HOME

12345678

SOURCE
SELECT

2 Audio Me nu.

3 Source Select Menu.

Au dio Me nu

The ‘Audio Menu’ (acce ssible from the ‘Other’ menu) is c onfigured with 1 navigation button, 3
menu buttons and 2 function buttons:

AUDIO

HOME

LEVELS

12345678

2 Audio Levels Menu.

3(off)

4 Monitor A Menu.

5 ‘Monitor B’ (The ‘Monitor B’ menu is like the ‘Monitor A’ menu.)

6 Meters Menu.

7 ‘Dim A’.

8 ‘Dim B’.

MONITOR

A

MONITOR

B

METERS

DIM A

DIM B

Source Select Menu

The ‘Source Select Menu’ is configured as 3 submenus:

PST MAIN

HOME

BTN MAP

12345678

2 ‘Pst Main Btn Map’

PST OVER

BTN MAP

PRESET

MAIN

ROUTER

— activates the ‘main source’ menu.

3 ‘Pst Over Btn Map’ — activates the ‘over source’ menu.

4 ‘Preset Main Router’ — activates the ‘router category’ menu.

These 3 menus are list-selection menus. See Source Selection on page 36 for additional informa­tion.

Au dio Lev el s Me nu

The ‘Audio Levels’ menu is configured as 6 status buttons:

HOME

12345678

2 ‘Preset’ button — displays the preset main audio level (in dB).

3 ‘PST Over’ button — displays the preset over/main ratio, as a percentage.

4 ‘PST Over’ button — displays the preset over audio level (in dB).

5(off)

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6 ‘Program’ button — displays the program main audio level (in dB).

7 ‘PGM Over’ button — displays the program over /main ratio, as a percentage.

8 ‘PGM Over’ button — displays the program over audio level (in dB).

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Chapter 5 describes many of the operating procedures and operating characteristics of the SCP in a
master control system. It presents the following topics:

• Performing Transitions •Working with Monitors and Meters

• Using Breakaways •Understanding Non-Sync Bypass

• Selecting Transition Rates •Working with Audio Levels

• Working with Keyers •Working with Channels

• Working with Logos •Working with Squeezeback

• Understanding LOS •Panel Startup and Shutdown

• Using the Panel Menu •MCPMs and MCEs Not Connected

• Using Flip-Flop Mode •Internal Panel Problems

• Working with Machine Control •Working with Audio Overs

• Working with Intuition XG

We recommend that you become familiar with the menus and menu buttons (Chapter 4) and the
general concepts of the SCP (Chapter 3) before r eading this chapter.

Performing Transitions

The SCP is a master control panel that sets up and initiates program transitions in an MCPM or
MCE or MCE. The MCPM or MCE executes the transitions. (It is sometimes called a transition
processor.)

Setting up a transition is the primary task of the SCP operator. Automation can also set up and ini­tiate transitions but that is of little concern to SCP operators, except that operators may inhibit or
enable automation and must generally avoid interfering with automated transitions.

Most transition operations involve setting a source on the preset bus, selecting a transition type and
rate, and transitioning the source to program. Some transitions involve applied video effects and
audio overs.

For MCEs only, certain transition operations involve pre-roll and that involves mounting and cue­ing tapes. Some MCE transitions can involve Intuition XG keyer la yers.

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Basic Transition

Follow these steps to perform a basic transition:

1 Select the desired source on the preset bus.

2 (Optionally) select or deselect the desired video effects and audio overs on the preset bus.

Use the menus to choose a video effect se tting.

If you are controlling an MCE and it has Intuition XG enabled, the panel’s XG keyer layer but­tons func tion as keyer buttons function. That MCE will have one or tw o of its keyers dedicated
to XG keyer layers and therefore one or two your keyer buttons, if any, will be disabled.

3 (Optional) In the menu tree, select the desired transition type: cut, V-fade, cut-fade, cross-fade,

or fade-cut. Select the desired transition rate: slow, medium, or fast.

4 Press the transition button. At the end of the transition period (up to 10 se conds) the selections

on the preset bus will appear on the program bus. During the transition, the preset sources and
program sources will combine according to the tr ansition type and rate.

If the system is operating in “flip-only” mode, both buses will now be identical.

If the system is operating in “flip-flop” mode, the program and preset selections will “swap” at
the end of the transition.

Please note:

• To perform a transition in “flip-only” mode, you must (1) preset a source that is different from
the program source , (2) change a video effect or audio over, or (3) change audio level.

• Following a transition in “flip-flop” mode, the buses are ready to transition back to the previous
program source. No action is required unless you want to transition to a different source.

• The SCP can be locked in “flip-only” mode or “flip-flop” mode.

• You c an “hot cut” to a new source directly on the program bus at any tim e, simply by pressing
the desired source on the program bus. Hot cuts are not re commended.

• Once an transition is initiated, it cannot be stopped, except by (hot) cutting to a different source
directly on the program bus during the transition period.

• If the program and preset buses ar e identical, no transition can be performed.

See Using Flip-Flop Mode on page 88 f or additional informa tion.

See Using Brea kaways, following, for information about breakaway transitions.

See Selecting Transition Rates on page 68.

See Mapping Sources to Buttons on page 79.

Pre-Roll Transition

S Pre-roll is available for MCEs only. The MCE must have pr e-roll enabled in its configuration.

The MCE will probably also have machine c ontrol enabled in its configur ation.

Follow these steps to perform a pre-roll transition:

1 Select the desired source on the preset bus.

The transition button changes to low-tally red for pre-roll transitions.

2 (Optional) Select or deselect the desired video effects and audio overs on the preset bus.

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Some squeezeback images and some overs are subject to pre-roll — those that are carried in
main sources. You can cue (or otherwise work with) these sources independently if you select
them as main sour ces on the preset bus. However, while you have selected a main source for the
transition, you cannot control the overs and squee ze effects with machine control buttons.

3 (Optional) Select the desired transition type: cut, V-fade, cross-fade, PB cut-fade, or another.

Select the desired transition rate: slow, medium, or fast.

Main sources that have machine control enabled can also have their own default transition type
and transition rate. If you have chosen such a source, you might see your transition type and
rate buttons change. You can override the main source’s defaults.

4 Perform cueing.

The machine control buttons (if any) in the menus allow you to control the main source (the
main video source in a breakaway.) Use the machine control buttons (mark, cue, rewind, fast
forward, etc.) to ready the source device f or play.

S Even if you cannot use machine c ontrol buttons, you can position media manually if you

have access to the media.

Cueing of source media is a broad topic and device-dependent. It cannot be addressed here. It is
expected that you, the panel operator, and other persons will collaborate to mount, position, and
ready tapes in VTRs as required. Video servers probably require very little service to become
ready to play. You can position tapes manually or use master control panel buttons. T here is no
single method that works in all instances.

The amount of advance time given to pre-roll becomes important here. With pre-roll you will
probably have to press the transition button in advance of the time the transition is to begin. But
sometimes you will not.

5 Calculate the pre-roll advance time.

Consider the scenario (given in the diagram on the next page) of 3 pre-roll sources with differ­ent pre-roll values, the longest of which is about 5 seconds coupled with a V-fade of 2 seconds.

The 3 pre-roll sources, A, B, and C have different pre-roll values. The pre-roll value for C — an
Intuition XG key — is small in comparison to the transition period which is 60 frames. The tran-
sition is a V-fade, so the point at which all new video must begin is 30 frames into the transition
(the middle):

Press of
Transition
Button

Pre-Roll Period

Start A Start B Start C

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Program

Preset

System pre-roll = 4 sec

A

Pre-roll = 5 sec; latency = 12 frames

B

Pre-roll = 3 sec; latency = 8 frames

C

Pre-roll = 5 frames (for Intuition XG)

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Performing Transitions

The longest effective pre-roll is 162 frames. The pre-rolls and the transition are timed so that
the transition starts 30 frames before all three pre-rolls finish (simultaneously). There is there­fore a 132-frame (about 4.5 seconds) delay between the time you pr ess the transition button and
and the time the transition itself actually begins.

S Automation must also start pre-roll transitions ahead of time.

The system pre-roll value (120 f rames) is not greater than the longest source pre- roll, so it is
dismissed in this case. Had it been greater, it would have been used as the transition’s pre-roll
value.

S A system pre-roll value greater than all possible source pre-roll values eliminates the need

for many calculations for operators and for automation.

There are instances where the transition’s pre-roll time requires no advance timing.

These are the cases where pre-roll time is irrelevant:

• V-fade — when max pre-roll ≤ 1/2 the transition period.

• Fade-Cut — when max pre-roll ≤ the transition period.

In these cases, new video begins after the tr ansition starts.

These are the cases where pre-roll time always relevant, regardless of its length:

•X-fade.

•Cut-Fade.

• Cut.

In each of these cases, the new video must appear at the beginning of the transition. (Cut transi­tions are instantaneous for video and nearly instantaneous for audio.)

“Preset Black” transitions are not relevant. If the selected transition type is a preset black transi­tion, the MCE substitutes a normal transition for the preset black transition.

The advance time in these cases is given as follows:

•V-fade.

advance time = MAX[ (max pre-roll time – 1/2 transition time), 0 ]

•Fade-Cut.

advance time = MAX[ (max pre-roll time – transition time), 0 ]

• X-fade, Cut-fade, Cut.

advance time = max pre-roll time

If your MCE uses the system pre-roll value as a fixe d maximum pre-roll time, use that value in
the calcula tions.

6 Press the transition button.

Use the appropria te advance time.

The MCE will have calculated the proper pre-roll point in relation to the point at which the new
video is to appear on program. The pre-roll period commences. During the pre-roll period, the
transition button blinks between low- and high-tally red.

During the pre-roll period, you may press the ‘Abort’ button (if one is present) to stop the pre­roll transition.

At the end of the pr e-roll period, the transition button turns high-tally amber as it would in a
non-pre-roll transition.

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Using Breakaways

At the end of the transition period, the selections on the preset bus will appear on the program
bus. During the transition, the preset sources and program sources will combine according to
the transition type and rate.

If the system is operating in “flip-only” mode, both buses will now be identical.

If the system is operating in “flip-flop” mode, the program and preset selections will “swap” at
the end of the transition.

S Certain video effects might be configured to clear the preset bus after the transition.

S After the transition, the transition button will go low-tally, amber or red, if a pre-roll source

remains on the preset bus.

Please note:

• To perform a transition in “flip-only” mode, you must (1) preset a source that is different from
the program source , (2) change a video effect or audio over, or (3) change audio level.

• Following a transition in “flip-flop” mode, the buses are ready to transition back to the previous
program source. No action is required unless you want to transition to a different source.

• The SCP might be locked in “flip-only” mode or “flip-flop” mode.

• You c an “hot cut” to a new source directly on the program bus at any tim e, simply by pressing
the desired source on the program bus. Hot cuts are not re commended.

• Once a transition is initiated, it cannot be stopped, exc ept by (hot) cutting to a different source
directly on the program bus during the transition period.

Note, however, that you can use an ‘Abort’ button to terminate a pr e-roll transition while it is
still in its pre-roll period.

• Automation can also initiate pre-roll transitions.

• The ‘Preroll’ button — if you use it — alw ays starts a non-flip-flop transition.

Imp ortant The contents of the preset and program buses — main sources, vide o effe cts, and

Using Breakaways

A “breakaway” is a transition where audio is taken from one main source and video is taken from
another main source. You can break away either audio or video as de sired.

S If there is a breakaway of pre-roll main sources, any machine control buttons (e.g., the Cue but-

ton) apply to the to video source.

Follow these steps to perform a breakaway:

1 Select a source on the preset bus.

2 In the menus, choose the type of breakaway you want to perform:

Press ‘Video Only’ to break video away from the source selected on preset.

audio overs — depend primarily on the configuration of the MCPM or MCE
under control. When you change channels, the preset and pr ogram buses can
change radically. Further, automation and other operators can make changes that
affect your panel.

The SCP’s configurable buttons do not change. However, some buttons might
become enabled or disabled when you switch channels and at other times.

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OR

Press ‘Audio Only’ to br eak audio away from the source selected on preset.

3 On the preset bus, choose the source that you want to break away.

If you selected ‘Video Only’, the source you now select on preset will be the video source —
and the other source (now audio only) will tally violet.

If you selected ‘Audio Only’, the source you now select on pr eset will be the audio source —
and the other source (now video only) w ill tally green. (The audio source tallies violet.)

Remember that violet always indicates the audio portion of a breakaway.

4 Continue with any other presets and, when you are ready, press the Transition button.

Please note the following important points regarding breakaways:

• To ca ncel the breakaway transition after sele cting a breakaway source (and prior to initiating a
transition), simply preset another sour ce. T he new selection will be both audio and video, and
will tally green.

• You c an easily re-connect the breakaway audio or video to its “parent” source, simply by press­ing the desired source on preset, and then pressing the transition button.

• On the program bus, you can hot-cut from a breakaway configuration back to a single audio/
video source at any time — simply by pressing the desired source. However, you cannot hot-cut
from an normal source on program to a breakaway configuration — you m ust us e the preset bus
to perform breakaway.

Selecting Transition Rates

It is the MCPM or MCE that stores the transition rates for the ‘Slow’, ‘Medium’, and ‘Fast’ but­tons. You cannot change the given rates at the SCP, but you can select ‘Slow’, ‘Medium’, or “Fast’
in the menus.

The default transition rates are 60, 30 and 15 frames, respectively. (The rates are expressed as the
duration of the transition. The maximum duration is 300 frames. The minimum is 3 frames.)

The MCPM or MCE has a default transition type and rate.

Machine Control Transitions

When you are controlling an MCE that has machine control enabled, a main source might (or might
not) have its own default transition type and default transition rate. When the main source is
selected, the source’s def aults become the current transition type and rate. You can override the
main source’s defaults.

S The MCE reverts to its own defaults when the preset bus is switched to another main source

that does not have its own default.

S In a breakaway of two machine control sources, it is the video source from which the defaults

are taken.

S Machine control is available only for MCEs.

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Fade to Black

Find the “Fade to Black” (FTB) button in the menus and press it. The program output fades from
what it is to the FTB matte color at the FTB rate.

You can fade from matte to the normal program output by pressing the FTB button again. (It is a
toggle.)

A typical FTB rate is 15 frames. (The rate is expressed as the duration of the transition. The maxi­mum duration is 300 f rames. T he minimum is 3.)

The MCPM or MCE stores the FTB rate and the FTB matte color. You cannot change either at the
SCP.

Working with Keyers

The layer section of the SCP includes 3 linear keyers, 1, 2, and 3. All three keyers are identical in
functionality, but note the following:

• Keyer 1 is upstream of the squeezeback generator. If you apply a squeeze effect, and keyer 1 is
on, it will squeeze back with the “squeezed” video.

• Keyers 2 and 3 are downstream of the squeezeback generator. If you apply a squeeze eff ect, and
keyer 2 or keyer 3 is on, they will not be squeezed.

S The MCPM-MK-SD and -MK-HD have no squeezeback generator.

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Fade to Black

Intuition XG

One or two keyer buttons become disabled when ( 1) your SCP has XG layer buttons and (2) you
are controlling an MCE that has Intuition XG functions enabled.

That is because the MCE processes the XG layers using the keyers that are assigned to the Intuition
XG channels in the MCE configuration.

If you are controlling any other MCPM or an MCE without Intuition XG enabled, you keyer but­tons appear and function normally.

Performing Keyer Transitions

Any combination of the keyers can be transitioned to, or from, program output.

Follow these steps to transition one or more ke yers to program output:

1 Use the menus to select a keyer setting for each keyer you wish to use . The names of se lected

settings bec ome visible on the keyer buttons.

See Choosing Keyer Settings, following.

2 Press the desired keyer button(s) on the preset bus.

3 Optionally, set up other video effects, audio overs, and transition type and r ate.

4 Press the Transition button.

5To re move keyer( s) from program, pr ess the desired keyer(s) on the preset bus to clear them

from preset (they appear low tally) — and perform a transition in the normal way.

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Please note:

• You c an “hot cut” keys directly on and off the progra m bus at any time, as required, simply by
pressing the desired keyer on the program bus. Hot cuts are not re commended .

• You, as an operator, should be aware that keyer s can be c onfigured 2 ways:

Normal Transition. At the end of a transition, both buses are identical (flip-only mode), or both
buses reverse (flip-flop mode).

Clear after Transition. At the end of a transition, the selected keyer is automatically cleared
from the preset bus.

The keyer can also be disabled entirely.

The choice is made in the MCPM or MCE configuration. Refer to the NV5100MC Master Con-
trol Reference Manual for details.

Choosing Keyer Settings

Keyer settings are defined in the configuration of the currently se lected MCPM or MCE and iden­tify the keyer source( s) and specify several keyer options (such as opacity). Up to 8 settings can be
defined. You can choose any setting, but you cannot change the parameters of a setting at the SCP.
The same setting can be used for multiple keyers.

Keyer settings cannot be chosen when the keyer is selected on the program bus. When a keyer is
selected on program, its settings are disabled. (If you go to the settings menu for that keyer, the cur­rent setting for the keyer is high-tally. All other setting buttons are reverse-field and ca nnot be
selected.)

All 3 keyers share the same “pool” of settings.

Follow these steps to choose a keyer setting:

1 Ensure that the keyer whose setting you want to change is not selected on the program bus.

2 In the menus, find and press the keyer 1, keyer 2, or keyer 3 settings button. The list of keyer

settings then appears on the menu buttons. (I f necessary, use the scroll/set knob to sc roll
through the list of keyer settings. The MCPM or MCE permits up to 8 keyer settings.)

3 Press the appropriate menu button to choose a se tting. The setting’s name now appe ars on the

physical keyer button (pair).

4 Repeat, from step 1, to c hoose additional keyer settings.

You can choose a keyer setting at any time.

Working with Logos

The layer section of the SCP includes 2 logo buttons, A and B. Both logos are identical in function­ality, but note the following:

• Logo A is upstream of the squeezeback generator. If you apply a sque eze effect, a nd logo A is
on, it will squeeze back with the “squeezed” video.

• Logo B is downstream of the squeezeback ge nerator. If you apply a squeeze effect, and logo B
is on, it will not be squeezed.

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Working w ith Logos

S The MCPM-MK-SD and -HD do not have a squeezeback generator or logo A. When you are

controlling an MCPM-MK-SD or -HD , logo A and sque ezeback are disabled.

Unlike keyers, which use discrete key and fill video inputs, logo images are files stored in the
MCPM’s memory.

Performing Logo Transitions

Up to two logos (static or animated) can be transitioned to, or from, program output.

Follow these steps to transition either or both logos to program output:

1 Use the menus to select a logo se tting for each logo you wish to use. The names of selected set-

tings become visible on the logo button legends.

See Choosing Logo Settings, following.

2 Optionally, set up other video effects, audio overs, and transition type and r ate.

3 Press the Transition button.

4To re move logo(s) from program, press the desired logo(s) on the preset bus to clear them from

preset (they a ppear low tally) — and perform a transition in the normal way.

Please note the following important points regarding logo transitions:

• You can “hot cut” logos directly on and off the program bus at any time, as required, simply by
pressing the desired logo on the program bus. H ot cuts are not recommended.

• You, as an operator, should be aware that logos can be conf igured 2 ways:

Normal transition. At the end of a transition, both buses are identical (flip-only mode), or both
buses swap (flip-flop mode ).

Clear after Transition. At the end of a transition, the selected logo is automatically cleared from
the preset bus.

Either logo A or logo B can also be disabled entirely.

The choice is made in the MCPM or MCE configuration. Refer to the NV5100MC Master Con-
trol Reference Manual for details.

S An MCPM or MCE configuration provides a choice of 3 logo types: static, animated (run

once), and animated (loop). (An a nimation begins when the preset video first appears on pro­gram. An animation going off program stops when the previous program video is replaced by
the preset video.)

Choosing Logo Settings

Logo settings are defined in the configuration of the currently selected MCPM or MCE and identify
the logo and specify several logo options (such as opacity). Up to 64 settings can be defined. You
can choose any setting, but you cannot change the parameters of a setting at the SCP. The same set­ting can be used for multiple logos.

Logo settings cannot be chosen when the logo is selected on the program bus. When a logo is
selected on program, its settings are disabled. (If you go to the settings menu for that logo, the cur­rent setting for the logo is high-tally. A ll other setting buttons are reverse-field and cannot be
selected.)

Both logos share the same “pool” of settings. Follow these steps to choose a logo setting:

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1 Ensure that the logo whose setting you want to choose is not selected on the program bus.

2 In the menus, find and press the logo A or logo B selection button. The list of logo settings then

appears on the menu buttons. (If necessary, use the scroll/set knob to scroll through the list of
logo settings.)

3 Press the appropriate menu button to choose a se tting. The setting’s name now appe ars on the

logo button (pair).

4 Repeat, from step 1, to c hoose other logo settings.

You can choose a logo setting at any time.

Working with Squeezeback

Some MCPMs provide a squeezeback generator; the mixer/keyers do not. The MCPM-SDHD and
MCE provide an enhanced squeezeback func tion.

The basic squeezeback function reduces the program image, over the transition period, to a speci­fied portion of the video f rame, with or without borders, overlaying the reduced image on a “back­ground” video source.

Enhanced squeezeback perf orms the basic squeezeback functions and adds a second vide o source
(reduced) and optionally, the a udio from the second source, to the effect. The second reduced video
source can be in front of everything, behind ever ything, or between the primary background source
and the main source image. The audio of e nhanced squeezeback is handled manually as an audio
over.

Image 1 (the main source plus any video effect upstream of the squeezeback generator) is either
scaled or cropped to a specified region of the video frame. Image 2 can be opaque or transparent. It
can be scaled, but not cropped, and can be layered in front of or behind image 1, or behind the
background (in which case it is invisible).

Enhanced squeezeback includes borders, of variable width and c olor, f or each squeezeback image.

The MCPM or MCE performs video effects in a specific order:

Keyer 1, Logo A, Squeezeback, Keyer 2, Keyer 3, Logo B

where the effects to the right are downstream, or visually in front of, effects to their left. Your
panel’s effect buttons, if any, might oc cur in any order.

Keyer 1 and logo A effects are included in the squeezeback (when they are active during and after a
transition). Other video effects are not.

The layer section of the SCP allows 1 squeezeback button:

The MCPM-MK-SD and -HD do not have a squeezeback generator (or logo A). When you are con­trolling an MCPM-MK-SD or -HD, logo A and squeezeback are disabled.

The MCPM-SDHD has an enhanced squeezeback function.

The squeezeback generator provides smooth 2-D effec ts, allowing you to scale (or crop) the
upstream video image.

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Working with Squeezeback

Performing Squeezeback Transitions

A squeezeback effect (enhanced or not) can be transitioned to, or from, program output.

Follow these steps to transition a squeezeback effect to program output:

1 Use the menus to choose a sque eze setting for the squeezeback generator. The name of the

selected setting becomes visible on the squeezeback button legend.

Refe r to Choosing a Squeezeback Setting, following, for instructions on selecting a different
video effect setting.

2 Optionally, set up other video effects, audio overs, transition type, and transition rate.

3 Press the Transition button.

4To re move a squeezeback effect from program, press the squeezeback button on the preset bus

to clear it from preset (it will appear low tally) — and perform a tr ansition in the normal way.
The squeezeback effect will transition off the program output.

Please note the following important points regarding squeezeback tr ansitions:

• You c an “hot cut” the squeezeback effect dir ectly on and off the program bus a t any time, as
required — simply by pr essing the squeezeback button on the program bus. Hot cuts are not
recommended.

(Visually, it is not a desirable effect without the transition itself.)

• You, as an operator, should be aware that sque ezeback can e configured 2 ways:

Normal Transition. At the conclusion of a transition, both buses are identical (flip-only mode),
or both buses reverse (flip-flop mode).

Clear after Transition. At the conclusion of a transition, the sque ezeback effect is automatically
cleared from the preset bus.

Squeezeback c an also be disabled entirely.

The choice is made in the MCPM or MCE configuration. Refer to the NV5100MC Master Con-
trol Reference Manual for details.

S There are two squeezeback modes: “squeeze” and “crop.” In squeeze mode, the picture may be

squeezed and positioned anywhere on the raster. In crop mode, the image may be cropped fr om
any side.

S Squeeze settings can be used by the Intuition XG processor. Your changes can aff ect XG clips

that include squeeze effects. It is possible for your squeeze selection and its settings to be over­ridden by XG clips during a transition.

Enhanced Squeezeback

Enhanced squeezeback (in an MCPM-SDHD) involves a second video source (a main source) and
the operator’s option to include the audio for the second source in the effect.

Performing an enhanced squeezeback transition is the same as performing a normal squeezeback
transition unless you want to include the audio for the second vide o source.

S There must be at least one over button. The operator must be able to access the audio source

from the button. (Typically, the over button would be configur ed “user-modifiable” in the
MCPM or MCE configuration and the SCP’s menus would pr ovide an ove r source mapping
button.)

Follow these steps to set up audio for e nhanced squeezeback:

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1 At any time prior to the transition, press one of the audio over buttons on the preset bus. Find

and press a ‘Preset Over Button Map’ button in the menus. Choose the audio source assigned to
the squeezeback. Up to 4 a udio sources can be defined for normal audio overs. An additional
audio source is designated for use with enhanced squeezeback. You will see at most 5 source
choices.

If the audio for the enhanced squeeze is already selected, you need not re-select it.

2 Press the same audio over button (if not already selected) on the preset bus.

In summary, to set up enhanced squeezeback:

1 Choose a squeezeback setting. Press the squeezeback button on the preset bus.

2 If the squeezeback is to include audio, assign the squeezeback audio to an over button and press

the over button on the preset bus.

Refe r to the Transitions section of the NV5100MC Master Control Reference Manual for more
detailed information about enhanced squeezeback.

Choosing a Squeezeback Setting

Squeezeback settings are defined in the configuration of the currently selected MCPM or MCE and
identify the background source and specify several options (such as bor der). Up to 32 settings can
be defined. You can choose any setting at the SCP, but you cannot change the parameters of a set­ting.

Enhanced squeezeback parameters are associated with one or more of the 32 squeezeback settings.
Which of the 32 settings are “enhanced” is not necessarily obvious. Consult your system adminis­trator.

Squeezeback settings cannot be chosen when the squeezeback is selected on the program bus.
When squeezeback is selected on program, its settings are disabled. ( If you go to the settings menu
for squeezeback, the current setting for squeezeback is high-tally. All other setting buttons are
reverse-field and cannot be selected.)

Follow these steps to change a squeezeback preset:

1 Ensure that squeezeback is not on the program bus.

2 In the menus, find and press the video effect se lection button for squeezeback. The list of

squeezeback settings then appears on the menu buttons. (If necessary, use the scroll/set knob to
scroll through the list of squeezeback settings.)

3 Press the appropriate menu button to choose a se tting. The setting’s name now appe ars on the

squeezeback button.

S Again, the MCPM-MK-SD and -HD do not have a squeezeback generator. W hen you are con-

trolling an MCPM-MK-SD or -HD, squeezeback is disabled.

Machine Control Transitions

When you are controlling an MCE that has machine control enabled, squeezeback image 2 is a
main source that might require pre-roll. (Image 1 is always the main video source for the transi­tion.)

Similarly, the background squeezeback image (if it is also a main source and not internal black)
might require pre-roll.

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You can cue (or otherwise position) a pre-roll squeeze source using the panel’s machine control
buttons if you select the squeeze source as a main source on the preset bus. You cannot cue a
squeeze source w hile another main source is selected.

S Machine control is available only for MCEs.

Working with Audio Overs

MCPMs and MCEs have two mutually exclusive audio over mixers: Over 1 and Over 2. Only one
can be in use at any time. The “layer” section of the program/preset buses might include 0, 1, or 2
audio over buttons.

Although the two “over” buttons are mutually exclusive, the system allows you to preset one while
the other is on program, and transition between them.

The def ault over -to-main ratio is usually 50/50. Over ratios are “perceptual” and non-linear:

5. Operation

Wor king w it h Audio Ov ers

100%

0%

0% 100%0%

MAI N

OV ER

50%

P

Let P = intended over percent, O = resulting over percent
and M = re s ultin g ma in p ercen t

IF P = 5 0% ,

M = O = 100%

ORIF P ≤ 50%

O = P / (1–P) and M = 100%

ELS E P ≥ 50%

M = (1 –P) / P and O = 100%

EN DIF

A 50/50 ratio is really 100% main a nd 100% over. Typical voice overs are 75–80% over and
20–25% main. (Note that the program/preset audio mixer behaves according to the “normal”
linear model.)

Adj usting Audio Overs

The SCP has buttons and knobs with which you can control the levels of audio sources — main and
over — on the program bus or on the pr eset bus. There are buttons and knobs to control the ratio of
main audio to over audio on either bus.

See Audio Level and Ratio

S Over controls apply when an over button is selected on a bus. If an over is not selected, the con-

on page 46 for information on a djusting overs.

trols apply to the main source level.

Performing Over Transitions

Follow these steps to transition an audio over to program output. (This assumes that your pa nel is
configured with at least one audio over button.)

1 Press the desired over button on the preset bus. The selected over button appear high-tally vio-

let. However, if the over source is LOS or non-sync, the button appe ars red.

2 If necessary, navigate to the ‘Preset Over Button’ button in the menus to select an over source

for the over button you wish to use. The name of the selected over source becomes visible on
the over button.

See Choosing Over Sources, follow ing.

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3 Carry out other pr esets (and other operations) as needed.

4 Press the Transition button.

To re mo ve ove r(s) from program, press the desired over(s) on the preset bus to deselect them (they
now appear low tally) — and perform a transition in the normal way.

Please note:

• You can “hot cut” ove rs directly on and off the program bus at any time, as required, simply by
pressing the desired keyer on the program bus. Hot cuts are not re commended .

• An MCPM mixes the over source to program output, but does not trigger playback of the audio
device. It is possible, with an MCPM, to use a panel GPI button to start the playback. MCEs can
be configured to perform ma chine control and pre-roll functions such as starting playback.

• You must use an audio over if enhanced squeezeback is to include audio.

Choosing Over Sources

Over sources are defined in the configuration of the currently selected MCPM. Up to 4 over sources
can be def ined in gene ral. However, an MCPM-SDHD allows a fifth over to be defined in the con­text of enhanced squeezeback.

S MCEs support a sixth audio over to carry Intuition XG audio. T he SCP does not support Intu-

ition XG and you will not see this over.

S Note to configurers: the name of the enhanced squeezeback audio source (the fifth over) is

defined in MasterConfig’s ‘Video Effect Settings’ page.

Follow these steps to choose an over source:

1 Press the desired over button on the preset bus. The selected over button appears high-tally vio-

let. However, if the over source is LOS or non-sync, the button appe ars red.

2 Find and press the ‘Preset Over Button’ in menus. A list of over sources appears.

3 Press a list button to select an over source . The source now appear s highlighted in the list and

the source name appears on the over button pair.

Spe c ia l Aud io Ove rs

In addition to the 4 “normal” overs — those def ined for the MCPM or MCE under control and —
you might see two additional dedicated audio overs:

• An over dedicated to the audio from squeezeback image 2. This over is available when you are
controlling an MCPM-SDHD or a suitably configured MCE. The name given to this over
depends on the configuration of the MCPM-SDHD or MCE.

• An over dedicated to the audio from an Intuition XG processor. This is called the “XG over”
and is available for MCEs configured for Intuition X G operations.

Machine Control Transitions

When you are controlling an MCE that has machine control enabled, an audio over that is config­ured as a main source might require pre-roll.

You can cue (or otherwise position) a pre-roll over source using the panel’s machine control buttons
if you select the over source as a main source on the preset bus. You cannot cue a n over source
while another main source is selected.

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S Machine control is available only for MCEs.

MONITOR

A

HOME

PST

PGM

ON AIR

AUX IN

DIM

METERS

HOME

PST

PGM

ON AIR

AUX IN

Intuition XG Audio

Intuition XG layers can include up to 16 channels of embedded audio. An MCE pr ocesses the XG
layer’s audio as an audio over. There is an additional dedicated audio over for this purpose —
named “XG Over”— that you can select in the menus for overs. (Over mapping must be enabled in
the MCE and an over button must be selected.)

The MCE can be c onfigured to a ctivate the XG audio over automatically when you press an XG
layer button.

S Intuition XG is available only with MCEs.

S It is possible for the XG layer to be inaudible or to have no audio at all.

S Intuition XG media clips can use, and control, an MCE’s audio overs.

Working with Monitors and Meters

The MCPM or MCE has two independent audio monitoring buses, A and B, and one audio meter­ing bus. You can adjust the monitors with a monitor menu and the meters with the meters menu.

S MCEs and MCPMs handle audio monitor output differently. MCEs present 16 audio channels

on e ach output. MCPMs combine monitors A and B on 4 pairs of outputs according to one of 4
pre-configured “mixes.”

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Working with Monitors and Meters

A typical MCPM scenario has this setup:

Monitor A output connected to your main control room monitor.

Monitor B output connected to a second monitor, such as a “cue” speaker.

Metering output connected to your control room’s dedic ated hardware or sof tware mete rs.

(Optionally) an “off air” signal connected to the off-air input.

(Optionally) an auxiliary signal connected to the AUX input.

Follow these guidelines to adjust either monitor A or monitor B:

1 Find the Monitor A (or B) menu in the menu tree:

PST

HOME

PGM

ON AIR

AUX IN

DIM

2 Select the input that you wish to monitor: Preset (PST), Program (PGM), Off-Air or Aux).

3 Use the appropriate monitor knob to adjust the monitor’s audio level. (The audio level is dis-

played on the level button at the far right.)

4 Use the DIM button to attenuate the monitor level if required. (When DIM is active, the LED

above the monitor knob is lit and you cannot adjust the monitor level with the knob.)

Follow these guidelines to change the metering output:

1 Find the Me ters menu in the menu tree:

PST

HOME

PGM

ON AIR

AUX IN

2 Select the input that you wish to meter: Preset (PST), Program (PGM), Off-Air or Aux).

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S The metering output has no DIM button a nd you cannot adjust its level from the SCP.

Video

An MCE’s meter and monitor outputs can be configured to carry either program video, preset
video, or black. Your facility can use the video signals for your any purpose.

Working with Audio Levels

The SCP allows you to a djust audio levels on the program and preset buses. Changes to the pr o­gram bus directly affect on-air levels. You can adjust levels by turning the red knobs in the audio
levels section. You can view the audio le vels using the menus.

You can adjust the main source level, the ove r source level, and the over/main ratio on either bus:
program or preset.

Please note:

• The level knobs in the audio level section allow level a djustments in 0.5dB steps, from –108.0
dB to +12.0 dB.

• The ratio knob in the audio level section allows ratio adjustments in 0.5% steps, from 0 to
100%.

• The MCPM or MCE remembers audio levels for each source independently.

Follow these guidelines to adjust program audio levels:

S Tip: If you wish to monitor or meter your changes, use the menus to switch your monitoring

and metering bus to PGM. You might also wish to turn D IM off.

• To adjust the main source level:

You probably do not want to change the program main source when it is “on air,” but you can, if
necessary. Both audio overs on the program bus must be unse lecte d if you want to adjust the
main source level. Otherwise you will be adjusting the over level.

Turn the program knob in the audio levels section to adjust the main source level as required.

• To adj ust an over source level:

One audio over must be selected on the program bus if you want to adjust the over source level.
Turn the program knob in the audio levels section to adjust the over source level as required.

• To adjust the over- to-main ratio:

One audio over must be selected on the program bus if you want to adjust the program over-to­main ratio. Turn the over ratio knob in the audio levels section to adjust the over-to-main ratio
as required.

Follow these guidelines to adjust preset audio levels:

S Tip: If you wish to monitor or meter your changes, use the menus to switch your monitoring

and metering bus to PST. You might also wish to turn DIM off.

• To adjust the main source level:

Select a main source on the preset bus. Both audio overs must be unselected on the preset bus if
you want to adjust the main source level. Otherwise you will be adjusting the over level.

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Turn the preset knob in the audio levels section to adjust the main source level as required.

• To adj ust an over source level:

One audio over must be selected on the preset bus if you want to adjust the over source level.
Turn the preset knob in the audio levels section to adjust the over source level as required.

• To adjust the over- to-main ratio:

One audio over must be se lected on the preset bus if you want to adjust the preset over-to-main
ratio. Turn the ove r ratio knob in the audio le vels section to adjust the over-to-main ratio as
required.

Please note the following important points regarding audio levels:

• The audio level controls are not intended to provide permanent level correction. If audio levels
are consistently incorrect, fix the problem at the source. You should operate the SCP at unity
gain (0 dB) whenever possible .

• The two “over” buttons are mutually exclusive — only one audio over can be on-air a t a time.
However, the system allows you to pr eset one while the other is on- air, and transition between
them.

• When you transition an over source to program, the MCPM or MCE mixes the selected audio
source to program, but does not tr igger audio playback of the device. It is possible to use a GPI
output button on the SCP to start audio playback.

Mapping Sources to Buttons

You can assign a ny of the master control video sources to any “user-modifiable” ma in source but­ton. (The NV5100MC and NV5128-MC frames allow 128 possible sources.) You might need to
switch banks if the “virtual” button you want is not visible on the physical source buttons.

You can also assign any of 4 audio over sources to either of the 2 audio over buttons if the button is
“use r-modi fiable.”

(Automation can do the same for buttons that are “system-modifiable.”)

S If the button you want to use is not “user-modifiable,” you cannot do this. Whether a button is

user-modifiable is c ontrolled by the current MCPM or MCE configuration.

Main Sources

Follow these guidelines to map main sources to main source buttons:

• Press a main source button on the preset bus. It is the “virtual” button to which you will actually
assign the source. Choose bank A or B to be able to select the virtual button.

• Find and press a ‘Preset Main Button Map’ button in the menus. The button’s actual legend can
differ; it depends on the intentions of the configurer.

• Scroll through a list of sources to locate the source you want and press the menu button for that
source to choose the source.

The SCP now displays the source name on the ma in source button pair and that source is now
available (unless it is LO S or non-sync).

• Continue with other operations.

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Over Sources

Follow these guide lines to map audio over sources to audio over buttons:

Machine Control

Machine control and pre-roll are features a vailable in MCEs (only).

Certain MCE main sources can be configured with a pre-roll value. The value applies to the main
source. During a pre-roll transition, the MCE will issue pre-roll commands to any router source
mapped to a pre-roll main source regardless of whether it is appropriate to do so.

• Press an audio over button on the preset bus. This is the button to which you will assign an over
source.

• Find and press a ‘Preset Over Button Map’ button in the menus. The button’s actual legend can
differ; it depends on the intentions of the configurer.

• Up to 4 audio over sources appear. Pr ess the menu button for the over source you want.

S A fifth source might appear if any enhanced squeezeback effects are defined.

The SCP now displays the over source name on the audio over button pair and that over source
is now available (unless it is LOS).

• Continue with other operations.

Working with Channels

You will probably find one or more channel buttons in the configurable button section of your SCP.
A channel is an MCPM or an MCE.

There are 5 types of c hannel buttons:

• Channel selection.

• No channel.

• Gang channels.

• Channel status.

• Channel control.

Selecting no channels or ganging channels requires menu buttons. Channel selection is affected by
“automatic gang mode.” See the discussion of automatic ga ng mode, f ollowing.

When channels are ganged, one channel is the “main” and other channels are “followers.” The
operations you perform on the main channel are replicated on the followers.

A ‘No Channel’ button can be used to take the SCP out of service for maintenance.

A ‘Channel Status’ button (normally white) displays the name of the currently selected channel and
turns red when the channel is malfunctioning.

A ‘Channel Control’ button re-acquires the currently selected cha nnel.

When you se lect a cha nnel, all status and configuration parameters f or the newly selected channel
are dow nloaded to the panel. A channel change ta kes approximately one second. Buttons, main
sources, video effect sources, transitions rates, and salvos can all change according to your specific
channel configuration.

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A channel change can be programmed to trigger an NV 9000 salvo. Consult your system adminis­trator if you need to determine whether your channel selection buttons trigger salvos.

Automatic Gang Mode

Your SCP might be configured for “automatic gang mode.” In this mode, the default channel is the
main channel of a channel gang. Whenever the default channel is selected (by any method), all the
channels in the automatic channel gang are selected and gang selection is enabled.

The button for the main channel of the gang tallies green; the buttons for the follower channels of
the gang tally amber. Whatever actions you take for the main channel are applied also to the fol­lower channels. (Your panel might not have buttons f or a ll of the channels in the automatic channel
gang.)

The ‘Gang Channels’ button ( if you have one) tallies bright green when gang selection is enabled.
You can ena ble or disable gang selection with the ‘Gang Channels’ button. When gang selection is
enabled, you can add follower channels to, or remove follower channels from, the current channel
gang, whether that gang is the automatic channel gang or some other gang.

You cannot restore a gang using the ‘Gang Channels’ button. If you have the default channel
selected, you can press a ‘Gang Control’ button to restore the automatic channel gang after you
have disabled gang selection.

Channel Selection

To cha nge channels, press the button for the channel that you want to control.

When you perform a channel change, the new cha nnel button flashes red for an moment, indicating
that the system has acknowledged the change request. When the channel is ready, the button goes
high tally green, unless there is a problem in which case the button stays red.

If the channel you select is the default channe l under automatic gang mode, the panel selects all the
channels in the automatic channel gang. The multiple channel selection takes a few seconds.

No Channel Selection

To disconnect your SCP from all channels, press a ‘No Channel’ button (in the configurable button
section). If you do not have a ‘No Channel’ button, you cannot do this.

The SCP becomes partially “inert”— any button that controls an MCPM becomes disabled. Other
buttons remain active, in particular, any channel selection buttons you have. The menu also remains
active.

To resume normal operations following a “no channel” period, select any channel.

Ganging Channels Together

The NV5100MC system allows you to gang two or more c hannels toge ther. One channel is the
main channel and other channels are the followers. What you do to the main channel is also applied
to the follower channels.

Follow these steps to gang channels:

1 Ensure that the desired “main” channel is selected. (You can do this in the menu if you want.) If

the channel is represented on a button, the button goes high-tally green.

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2 Press a ‘Gang Channels’ button (in the configurable button section) to engage “gang mode.”

3 Press channel buttons for each desired “follower” channel. The buttons tally amber to indicate

To disable gang mode, press the ‘Gang Channels’ button again. The main channel remains selected
and the follower channels be come deselected.

Please note:

(The button goes high tally).

that they are “ganged” with the main channel. Please note that as long as gang mode remains
enabled, you can add or remove follower channels at will.

• Under automatic gang mode, the default channel is the main channel of a channel gang. Choos­ing the default channel automatically selects all the channels in the gang and also enables gang
selection. The ‘Gang Channels’ button (if you have one) goes high tally. You can use the ‘Gang
Channels’ button to turn off the gang. The def ault channel remains selected. You can use the
‘Gang Control’ button to restore the default channel gang if you have turned it off with the
‘Gang Channels’ button.

• You can couple channels with similar configur ations (e.g., SD and HD) and perform transitions
with identical sources and rates.

To do this, form the presets after you gang the channels.

• You c an couple channels w ith dissimilar configurations. Preset the channels individually, and
then gang them. You can simultaneously start transitions of different inputs at different rates.

To do this, select one of the channels to be ga nged, and form its presets. Select another channel
and form its presets and continue until all the channels are set up. T hen ga ng the channels as
described above.

If another user change s one of the channels while you a re in this process, you might get unex­pected results.

• You c an gang up to 4 channels. When you add the fourth (i.e, the third follow er channel), all
other cha nnels become inaccessible and their buttons become dark.

MCEs and Ganged Channels

MCEs have preview and aux buses. The SCP has preview and aux button rows. Other MCPMs do
not have preview and aux buses.

Therefore, if an MCE is the main channel of a channel gang, the preview and aux buttons are
active. If an MCPM is the main channel, however, the preview and aux buttons are not active.

Machin e Cont rol and Gang ed Chan nels

There can be occasions where you gang one or more MCEs with pre-roll with one or more MCEs
without pre-roll.

All channels execute the transition when you hit the Transition button. The panel cannot detect
whether an MCE has pre-roll or not. Each MCE manages pre-roll on its own.

However, if a pre-roll MCE is the main channel, the transition button turns red and says “Preroll.”
If a non-pre-roll channel is the main channel, the transition button is amber.

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Each c hannel has its own transition rate and type. However,

1 If the gang’s main channel is a pre-roll MCE, its main source might have its own default transi-

tion rate and type overriding that of the MCE. You can override the main channel’s transition
rate and type.

2 If you do override the transition r ate and type (after the channels are ganged) the transition rate

and type applies to all channels in the gang.

Note that a rate of ‘ Slow’, for example, applies to all channels but each channel could have a
different definition of “slow.”

Not e a lso that the defaul t ra te for an MCE’s ma in source is expr essed as an e xact va lue, and not
‘Slow’, ‘Me dium’, or ‘Fa st’.

S The pane l lamps tally only what is occurring for the main channel.

Intuition XG and Ganged Channels

There can be occasions where you gang one or more MCEs with Intuition XG functions with one or
more MPCMs or MCEs without Intuition XG functions.

Each MCE manages Intuition XG functions on its own.

However, if an MCE with Intuition XG functions is the main channel, the panel will enable any XG
layer buttons it has on its preset and program buses and will disable buttons for the keyers that are
used by the XG layers. If an MCE without Intuition XG functions is the main channel, the panel
does not show any X G keyer layer buttons on its preset and program buses and does show keyer
buttons.

Note that any video effect and over settings you apply after the channels are ganged apply to all
channels that are capable of the effects and overs.

Working with Machine Control

MCEs have features that support machine control and pr e-roll. The SCP has 10 button functions
that also support machine control and pre-roll:

Play Fa s t Forward Cue Pr eroll Ready
Stop Rewind Pause Abort Mark

The ‘Preroll’ and ‘Abort’ buttons are considered the “pre-roll” group; the other 8 buttons and are
considered the machine control group. The pre-roll gr oup can be enabled independently of the
machine contr ol group (in the MCE configuration).

The machine control button group are disabled (dark) if the VTR cor responding to the selected
main source is not powered up, not connected, not in r emote control mode, or has its cassette
ejec ted.

The machine control and pre-roll buttons are described under Machine Control

Pre-Roll Transitions

If you will be performing pre-roll transitions, you must consider pre-roll advance time. This is the
amount time before a transition must begin that you must press the transition. For instance, if pre­roll is 5 seconds, and a V-fade transition takes 2 seconds, you must press the transition button 4 sec-

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onds in advance. The mid-point of the actual transition occurs 5 seconds later. The advance time
will vary from transition to transition.

See Performing Transitions on page 63 for details.

Notes

1 Pressing ‘Cue ’ without having pressed ‘Mark’ does nothing and gives you no warning that it

did nothing.

2 Machine control buttons effect cha nges to the m ain video source when more than one source is

subject to machine control and pre-roll. Breakaway audio sources, over sources and squeeze
image 2 sources can also be subject to machine control and pre-roll.

The secondary source s are subject to pre-roll only if they a re also main sources. To cue a ny of
the secondary sources using the panel’s machine control buttons, select tha t source as a main
source and perform the cueing.

3 Machine control is available only for MCEs. When (and if) you select a different channel, the

availability of machine control functions depends on the channel you select.

4 The machine c ontrol buttons reflect manual cue ing and other oper ations insofar as possible.

The state of machine control devices is polled every 2 seconds. The average latency for status is
1 sec.

Working with Intuition XG

So that you ca n understand the creation of, use of, and nature of XG clips, animations, crawls, and
so on, we invite you to r ead any and all Intuition XG documentation from Miranda.

The use of Intuition X G clips and Intuition XG panel functions is possible only when you are c on­trolling an MCE configured for I ntuition XG. Any Intuition XG features your panel might have are
disabled for other MCPMs and MCEs.

The SCP ha s no mechanism by which to select XG clips. It is necessary to use another control
panel to select the clips for a transition. After you have selected a set of clips, however, you can use
the SCP to place them on, or r emove the m from, the preset bus and transition them to (or from) the
program bus.

XG Layer Buttons

When you are controlling an MCE configured for Intuition X G, your SCP will probably have from
one to four ‘XG layer’ buttons on the program bus. The XG layer buttons also appear on the preset
bus, depending on the configuration of the MCE under control.

S An MCE configuration supports XG layer functions on either the preview bus or the preset bus,

but not both. Because the SCP has no preview buttons, it is advisable to use the SCP only for
MCEs that use the preset bus for XG layers.

Using an XG layer button is much like using a keyer button. When you press the button, the cur­rently selected XG clip appears on the bus (and presumably on the corresponding monitor). Note
however, that it is only immediately after an XG clip is selected (on another control panel) that you
can preview any signific ant portion of it. When you select the clip, it cues and plays out (on what-

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ever bus it was chosen) and after it plays out, its persistent portion remains. The persistent portion
might be nothing at all. It is possible to see the persistent portion (if there is any) at any time on the
preset (or preview) monitor used the MCE under control.

When you press the transition button, all selected XG clips play out on the program bus according
to the timing with which they were defined (and according to the timing of other video ef fects on
involved in the transition.

There are some differences between X G layers and regular keyers, however:

• The MCE uses one or two of its regular keyers to perform the Intuition XG media insertion.
The buttons for the keys used are disabled as long as that particular MCE is under control.

Because the XG layers use keyers, the XG layers occur in the video effect ordering whe re the
particular keyers would appear. Where the XG layer buttons are on the pre set and program
buses has no effect on the video effect ordering.

• An XG clip includes audio. The XG layer button will automatically select the audio over that
carries XG audio if the Intuition XG subsystem is so configured in the MCE configuration. It is
possible for the XG layer to be inaudible or to have no audio at all.

• An XG clip can also include and control MCE squeezeback e ffect s and a udio over s. An X G
clip can also select a main source. The XG clip cannot use more than one squeezeback or over
at one time because the MCE has only one squeezeback generator and only one over processor
on e ach bus. The XG clip can also select only one main source at a time.

Those squeezeback, over, and main source changes might be reflected on the program bus as
they occur during a transition. The squeezeback, over, and main source changes can be
reflected on the pr eset or pr eview bus immediately after selection in the ‘XG Select’ menu, but
after that, only the persistent portion of the XG clip remains.

XG Keyer Control Button

Your SCP might also have an ‘XG Keyer Control’ button in its menus. You can regard this button
as an emergency kill switch. It can be used in cases where the MCE loses communication with the
Intuition XG processor or where clip content is not as expected.

When you press the ‘XG Keyer Control’ button, it immediately turns off the keyers responsible for
mixing the video output of the Intuition XG. If a transition is in progress at the time you press the
button, it w ill continue to completion without the Intuition XG video.

The ‘XG Keyer Control’ button is a toggle: press it once to turn off the video; press it again to turn
on the video.

Notes

The button does not stop the Intuition X G processor. Keep in mind that the button functions even
when the MCE cannot communicate with the I ntuition XG processor.

XG clips can select and control MCE squeezeback and MCE audio overs. The ‘XG Keyer Control’
button does not turn off any squeezeback or any over controlled by an X G clip.

Turning off the XG video will turn off the XG audio if the XG over was automatically selected with
the XG layer(s). If you selected the XG over independently, the XG keyer control button doe s not
turn it off.

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Layers

The SCP c an have up to 4 XG layer buttons. Each one c orresponds to a n independent XG keyer
layer and each button (when selected) causes the XG clip assigned to the XG layer to be mixed into
program output during a transition.

Performing XG Layer Transitions

You can transition combinations of video effects (including XG la yers) to, or from, the program
bus. Follow these steps to transition one or more XG layers to program output:

1 Use another control panel to select an XG clip for each XG layer you wish to use. The name of

the selected clips become visible on the associated XG layer buttons on your SCP.

2 Press the desired X G layer button(s) on the preset bus. Selected XG layers appear high-tally.

3 Optionally select the XG audio over. (It is through the audio over that the X G layer’s audio is

mixed with main source audio.) There is an MCE configuration option where the pr essing the
XG layer button automatically selects the XG audio over. If that is the case for the MCE you are
controlling, you should not make any selection.

The MCE configuration provides a default over-to-main ratio for its XG clips. You can adjust
that ratio using the menus or the over ratio knob.

S The XG clip assigned to an X G layer might be inaudible or have no audio at all.

4 Optionally, set up other video effects, an audio over, and transition type and rate.

5 Press the Transition button.

To re mo ve XG layer(s) from program, press the desired XG layer(s) on the pr eset bus to deselect
them and perform a transition in the normal way. (Deselected XG layers appear low tally.)

Please note:

• You can “hot cut” XG layer directly on and off the program bus at any time, as required, simply
by pressing the desired XG layer on the program bus. Hot cuts are not recomm ended.

Hot c uts do not cause the XG clip assigned to the XG layer to start playing.

• You, as an operator, should be aware that each of the two possible Intuition XG channels (one
assigned to the program bus and the other assigned to the preset bus or the preview bus) can be
configured, individually, 2 ways:

Normal Transition. At the end of a transition, both buses are identical (flip-only mode), or both
buses swap (flip-flop mode ).

Clear after Transition. At the end of a transition, the selected XG layer is automatically cleared
from the preset bus. This option is available only in flip-only mode.

The XG la yer can also be disabled entirely.

The choices are made in the MCE configuration. Refer to the NV5100MC Refere nce Manual
for details.

Im por t ant Please consult your system administrator to determine how your particular

XG layers behave.

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Previewing XG Layer Transitions

Prior to a transition, the XG clips assigned to XG layers appear on either the preset bus or the pre­view bus, but not both. They are displayed on either your preset monitor or your preview monitor.

In most cases, only the persistent portion (if any) of an XG clip will be visible on your preset or
preview monitor. The exception is when you select an XG layer button for the first time after hav­ing chosen the XG clip in the ‘XG Select’ menu of some other panel. In that case, the clip cues and
plays to completion on the preset or preview bus. Here too, its persistent portion (if any) remains
visible.

All selected XG layers begin pla ying, with full effect, as they transition to the program bus.

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PANEL

MENU

HOME

SYSTEM
STATUS

PANEL

STATUS

PANEL
SETUP

MANAGE

LOG

VERSION

INFO

PANEL

CONTROL

UPDATE
CONFIG

Using the Panel Menu

Using the Panel Menu

Using the panel menu, a lways available, you can do the following:

• Change the SCP’s IP address (and ma sk).

• Vie w panel status.

• Set the time and date.

• Test the panel’s functions.

• Update the panel conf iguration.

• Restart or stop the panel.

This the panel menu.

SYSTEM

HOME

STATUS

Pressing ‘Update Conf ig’ causes the SCP software to restart, even when no configuration changes
are present. Update Config can be useful if you suspect that there is a problem with program execu­tion. The process takes only a few seconds.

Pressing ‘Panel Control’ allows you to test, restart, or stop the panel.

See Panel Menu on page 37 for more detail.

Using Flip-Flop Mode

In flip-flop mode, the MCPM or MCE swaps the program bus and preset bus af ter a transition. I n
flip-only mode (or normal mode), the preset bus remains unchanged after a transition. (An excep­tion to normal mode is when a video effect is configured to be removed from the preset bus after a
transition.)

Flip-flop mode is local to a control panel. It is not shared between control panels. However, it is the
currently selected MCPM or MCE that applies the mode. A control panel sends a flip-flop (or flip­only) comma nd at every transition.

Consider, for example, two panels that are controlling the same MCPM or MCE. Flip-flop mode is
enabled on one and not the other. If an operator initiates a transition on control panel 1, the MCPM
or MCE performs a flip-flop transition. If an operator initiates a transition on control panel 2, the
same MCPM or MCE will perform a flip-only transition.

PANEL

STATUS

PANEL
SETUP

MANAGE

LOG

VERSION

INFO

PANEL

CONTROL

UPDATE
CONFIG

The SCP c an be configured to operate in either flip-flop mode or nor mal mode as the default. The
SCP can also be configured with a flip-flop button which you can use to switch modes.

Please note:

• In “flip-only” mode:

In the layer section, after you transition an effect or over to program, no action is required if you
want to “hold” that effect or ove r on pr ogram.

In the layer section, to remove an effect or over after transitioning it to program, simply clear it
from preset, and transition in the normal way.

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