Grass Valley Kalypso User Manual V.15.0 - Manual (Page 338)

338 Kalypso — User Manual
Section 3 — System Operation
Control Surface
A control surface is generally a group of panels which interact and provide
a single user a unified work surface. An example of this type of control
surface is a Main panel, Menu panel, and Local Aux panel of a 4-M/E
Kalypso system. These panels combine to form a Technical Director’s (TD)
control surface. Other panels like a shot box or additional menu can be
added to a control surface.
A control surface may also consist of a single item. For example, a Menu
panel (or a laptop computer running the Kalypso Menu application) can act
as a separate control surface in a suite. This could be used by a Still Store
operator to control the Kalypso’s internal Still Store.
With Resource Sharing, up to two control surfaces can be created for each
of the two suites. Each control surface can load its own User Prefs, so they
can behave differently from one another. For example, different sources can
be mapped to the source select buttons of the two control surfaces in the
same suite, permitting quick access to different sources appropriate for
each work location. If you need different User Prefs operating at the same
time, separate control surfaces are indicated.
Control surfaces allow operators to collaborate on the same production
while providing isolation between the operators themselves. For example,
a small Main panel set up in the studio for rehearsals will need access to the
same effects as the larger Main panel in the control room, but may need
access to a specific set of sources. The smaller panel also requires a different
button mapping. If a Menu panel is associated with each Main panel, the
DPOP operations of one panel should affect its menu, not the other one.
Remote Aux panels are special in that they can be associated with a suite’s
control surface, or they can be associated with a suite but not with a control
surface (independent). Independent Remote Aux panels have their own
User Pref for button mapping and delegation mapping. This provides iso-
lation of one user (a video operator for example) from the User Prefs of the
TD.
Adding panels or menus to a control surface expands the capability of that
control surface. Typical additions to a control surface would be Remote
Aux panels or Kalypso Menu applications (typically on a laptop). When
additional Menu applications are added to a control surface, only the
primary menu interacts with the Main panel for DPOP operations.
Desired Resources
The Kalypso Resource Sharing feature employs a desired resources mech-
anism. Desired resources are those that are needed for a particular show.
These resources can be specified in advance and saved as part of a Suite
Pref. Preparation for a specific show can then be accomplished by simply
loading the preference file, and then acquiring the desired resources with