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Grass Valley iTX Master Control v.2.6 User Manual

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Master Control (ITX-MC)

User Guide

2 Right-click the

Hard Panel Controller

icon

and select the

Configuration

command.

The

Hard Panel Configuration

window appears.

3 Right-click the

Hard Panels

heading and select the

Add new Hard Panel

command. A

new panel heading (

New Panel1

) is added as a sub-heading.

4 Select the

New Panel

heading and then type a name for the panel in the

Panel Name

field. This name must be identical to the name given to the panel device when it was
configured using the MC Panel Configuration tool.

5 Click the

Select

button associated with the

Panel Driver

field, which opens the Select

Driver window.

6 Select

IMCPanel

from the Driver Name list and click OK.

7 The

IMC Panel Driver Configuration

section is added to the Hard Panel Configuration

pane and automatically fills in the

Local Address

(which is the IP address of the

computer hosting the iTX Desktop) and

TCP Listening Port

setting (5007).

8 Click

OK

to automatically save the hard panel’s configuration and close the Hard Panel

Configuration window.

Installing and adding the iTX MC layout to the iTX Desktop

A global layout is provided especially for iTX-MC use in the iTX Desktop’s Channel Control
view. The iTX MC layout contains all of the typical channel control components, plus the

Mixer Mapper

component (see

page 14

).

To install and add the iTX MC layout to the iTX Desktop’s Channel Control view:

1 Open the iTX Suite installer folder in Windows Explorer and navigate to:

ITX Install\Files\iTX Standard Layouts - v2.0

2 Run the

INSTALL TEMPLATES MANUALLY.bat

file to install the iTX MC global layout.

Open the iTX Desktop application.

3 From the same folder, run the

INSTALL INPUT Mappings.bat

file to install the default

input mappings for the iTX Desktop’s Mixer Mapper component.

4 Open the

Manage Views

dialog by right-clicking the

Layout Selection Bar

(bottom) and

select

Manage Views

.

5 Select the

User View

tab at the top of the

Manage Views

window. Then select the

Global

Layout

tab from the

Add Layout

from

Object Store

section. See

Figure 2-1

on page 12.