Grass Valley NV9642 v.1.2 - Manual (Page 53)

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Operation
Chapter 5 provides operating instructions for the NV9642 control panel.
Topics
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Operating Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Salvo Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Menu Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Setup Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
This chapter is intended specifically for the NV9642 panel operator.
Summary
As an NV9642 operator, you will be confronted initially with a relatively small panel — 34 buttons
of various colors and a small alphanumeric display. Because the NV9642 is a “hierarchical”
control panel, you can view, at any one time, one button “page” of a potentially large number of
pages in the hierarchy of a button “tree.” Pressing certain buttons
— navigation buttons —
causes the panel to display different button “pages.”
The design of the user interface is entirely at the discretion of the configurer. You, the user,
depend on the configurer having designed a logical and usable tree structure.
The user interface of an NV9642 in one installation can be radically different from the user inter-
face of an NV9642 in another installation. It is impossible to describe operations in great detail
because there is no one interface. What we can do, however, is give you general advice and, of
course, specific information on the behavior of the different button types and operational
modes.
Because some of the panel’s buttons can have arbitrary legends, a button’s legend might or
might not indicate its function. Operators and configurers will have to communicate about the
meaning of the buttons in the button tree.
The alphanumeric display (4 lines of 22 characters) shows the status of takes (pending or
complete) in X-Y mode or multi-destination mode under normal circumstances. The display
presents information or menu items as isolated cases warrant.
Physically, you will find
• Navigation buttons to go up or down in the button tree, or to a specific page in the tree.
• Function buttons (e.g., select a source or lock a destination).
• Lists of sources, destinations, source categories, destination categories, or salvos.
• Virtual level buttons (in X-Y mode) or MD destination buttons (in MD mode).
• Status of preset and current sources and the selected destination(s).