Function buttons and displays – Grass Valley NV9648 v.1.1 User Manual
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Introduction
Function Buttons and Displays
The NV9648 has 3 very different operating modes (or behavioral models):
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‘Panel Client’ mode. For brevity, we can call this “client” mode.
When the panel is in “client” mode, it operates in conjunction with an NV9649 and other
NV9648s. The NV9649 is the “server” and the NV9648s are the “clients.” The NV9649 and the
NV9648s combine to form, in essence, a larger panel — actually a cluster of many small pan-
els. The NV9649, being the server, can control which sources and destinations the NV9648s
can select. See
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‘Panel Standalone’ mode. For brevity, we can call this “standalone” mode.
When the panel is in “standalone” mode, it functions much the way it does in “client” mode,
but with a few added button functions. See
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‘LCD Min XY/MD’ mode. For brevity, we can call this LCD XY/MD mode.
In this mode, the panel also operates standalone, but has a richer function set. The panel’s
buttons are used in a hierarchical fashion: pressing a ‘navigation’ button causes the panel to
display a new set of button functions or a “button page.” There can be many such pages,
organized in a configurable tree structure.
The operator can switch the panel between “X-Y mode” and multi-destination (MD) mode. In
X-Y mode, the operator can perform takes (and locks) on individually selected levels. In MD
mode, takes occur on all levels, but the operator can perform takes to multiple destinations
simultaneously. See
The panel’s 27 buttons and 3 displays are used in very different ways in the 3 modes.
Function Buttons and Displays
At the front, the panel is divided into 3 sections. Each section has 1 display and 9 buttons. Refer
to Figure 2-1.
Each display is an 8-character alphanumeric LED display.
Each function button incorporates a 64×32 LCD. The buttons’ LCDs can be illuminated in 7
colors: red, green, yellow, blue, purple, amber, and grey. Each LCD can be off, bright (high-tally)
or dim (low-tally) depending on what the operator is doing and what functions are selected.
A button’s LCD (when it is not off ) presents the button legend. Some button legends are fixed.
Source and destination buttons, for example, show the source or destination mnemonic. Some
button legends vary. Selection buttons have 3 lines of text, the top line displaying the current
source, the middle line displaying the preset source, and the bottom line displaying the level (in
X-Y mode) or MD device in MD mode.
The buttons and displays are used differently in the 3 operating modes.
In client mode and in standalone mode, each section functions as a complete and separate
panel, unrelated to the other two sections. Each displays shows the source or destination
chosen for its section. (When the panel is in client mode, the NV9649 server panel can reassign
the destination and sources to each section of each NV9648.)
In LCD XY/MD mode, all 3 sections are integrated. The displays show, in MD mode, respectively,
from left to right, (1) the current source, (2) the preset source, and (3) the selected destination.
All 27 function buttons form a “button page” in a hierarchical structure of button pages.