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Numeric controls in this group let you define margins for each side of the frame. Drag left or right on the
number fields to adjust the values interactively or click a field to enter an exact value using the keyboard.
The region defined by these controls is completely removed. Use the
Feather setting to soften the edges.
Hint: For added convenience, similar cropping tools are available separately in the Position panels of DSKs,
along with the Key and, for LiveSet Effects, each layer’s settings for MEs .
8.1.4 AUTOMATION TAB
Automation is one of those wonderful things that really transform your workflow. The Automation tab ,
located in the Input Configuration panels for all video sources is one of several places where related features
can be found.
Macros , discussed in Chapter 17, might be viewed as the basic building blocks of automation. Macros can
easily be recorded and edited, and equally easily they can be triggered by a keystroke shortcut, control panel
button, or similar means; but that isn’t really ‘automation’, is it? It’s actually a manual operation.
Somewhat obviously, automation should happen automatically based on predetermined criteria. The
automatic transmission in your car shifts all by itself when certain conditions are met. In similar fashion, the
features of the
Automation tab allow you to predetermine what will happen when certain conditions are met.
Consider the State Change control group.
S TATE C HANGE
FIGURE 87
Click the [E] button next to a one of the ‘state’ options (see Figure 87) to assign macros that will be executed
on specific Switcher operations that affect the specified state.
For example, the accompanying images depict macros that control the volume level of the SOUND player.
Whenever Cam 1 is newly selected on the Switcher’s PGM row, the Active macro will run. Conversely,
replacing Camera 1 with a different PGM row selection will execute the Inactive macro.
Hint: The “E” on the button is short for “Event”.