Grass Valley NV9608 v.1.0 - Manual (Page 45)

NV9616 Control Panel • User’s Guide 35
5. Operation
Operating Concepts
Breakaway
In X-Y mode, a hold button retains breakaway levels after a take.
Simply press the hold button at any time before the take.
A hold button is a toggle. Press it once to put the panel in hold mode; press it again to remove hold
mode.
Multi-Destination Mode
In multi-destination mode, Hold retains destination selection(s) after a take.
Category Selection
Your panel has 10 fixed category buttons and perhaps other optional category buttons. The fixed
category buttons are arranged like a telephone keypad:
Although their position is fixed, their functions are not.
Every category button can represent up to three items: a source category, a destination category,
and a suffix. By pressing category buttons in succession, you can construct a device name.
A category button selects a source category immediately after you place the panel in source mode
by pressing a ‘Source Mode’ button (or a ‘Src/Dst’ button).
A category button selects a destination category immediately after you place the panel in destina-
tion mode by pressing a ‘Destination Mode’ button (or a ‘Src/Dst’ button).
After you select a category, the category name appears as the first part of a device name you are
building. The category buttons you press subsequently select suffixes which are appended to the
device name you have built so far. As you continue to append suffixes, the category buttons that no
longer apply to the name you are building become disabled. In fact, at some point all the category
buttons might become disabled.
Suffixes may be numeric or alphanumeric, and up to 4 characters in length. Any device may have
up to 8 suffixes. However, device mnemonics are limited to 8 characters. Therefore, the usual
—
and default — suffixes are just the numerals 0–9.
Example: you want to select the source device CAM_12 .
1 Press ‘Source Mode’ or ‘Src/Dst’
2 Press the category button that selects category
CAM . The LCD button for this source shows
CAM_____ .
3 Press the category button for suffix 1. The LCD button for this source shows CAM__1 or a simi-
lar name.
4 Press the category button for suffix 2. The LCD button for this source now shows CAM_12 .
At this point, you could press a ‘Clear’ button — as you would a backspace key — to erase the
most recent entries in the name. If you press ‘Clear’ once, it would erase the “2” you just
entered.