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Macro button function summary, Macro menus – Grass Valley Karrera Video Production Center v.4.0 User Manual

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KARRERA — User Manual

Section 4 — Switcher Control

Macro Button Function Summary

The

Macro

button on the Control Panel, (one per Source Select area) dele-

gates keyer source select button Rows 1 and 2 for macro operations and
reports that macro mode is active (MCR appears in the bus display). To del-
egate one bus row for macro operations, press and hold down the

Macro

button, then press a bus delegation button for the row to be delegated.
MCRO appears in the bus display reporting that the row is active for macro
operations. Macro names, when displayed, will also appear on the bus
row(s).

For information about the Pre-Attached (

Pre

button), Post-Attached (

Post

button), and Replacing (

Replace

button) attached macros, see Macro Attach-

ments

on page 134

.

The

Att Enable

button enables and disables all macro button attachments

globally. When on, pressing Control Panel buttons with macros attached
will run those macros. When off, macros can only be played back by acti-
vating macro mode and pressing the macro register buttons, or with the
Macro menu.

The

Show (Attach

) button activates a mode that low tally blinks Control Panel

buttons that have macros attached.

The

Delete

button activates macro Delete mode. When delete mode is on,

pressing a macro button deletes the macro associated with that button.

When macro mode is on, pressing the

Replace

button activates attach mode.

You then select the macro register of the desired pre-defined macro and
press the button to which you wish to attach that macro.

During a macro recording, time delays can be inserted into macros. The

Ins

Delay

button activates macro Insert Delay mode. In this mode the macro del-

egated ME’s source name displays show time durations which can be
selected by pressing the corresponding keyer buttons.

The

Record

button activates or terminates macro Record mode. In this mode,

you select the macro register into which you wish to record, using the del-
egated keyer row, perform the desired actions, and then finish the
recording by either pressing the

Record

button again or pressing the newly

recorded macro register button.

Macro Menus

The Macro menus provide access to many, but not all, Karrera system
macro functions. The Macro menus are useful to access and use Macro reg-
isters not available on the Control Panel (registers 25 or 33 through 50).