Level selection, Buttons, Broadcast – Grass Valley NV9603A v.1.1 User Manual
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NV9603A
User’s Guide
It is not possible to take different sources to the destination on the same level. For instance, you
cannot take SD from two different sources. The outcome would be noise even if you could do it.
(That is because routers are not mixers.)
Level Selection
If your panel has level buttons, you can select or deselect levels. To select a level, press a level
button. To deselect it, press the button again.
There is an exception to this: when you first select a destination, all levels for that destination
are automatically selected. If you press any level button when all levels are selected, the
result is that all other levels become deselected and that level remains selected.
If your panel does not have level buttons that represent all levels of a destination, it is impos-
sible to reselect all levels after deselecting some levels. The remedy is to reselect the destination.
Doing so causes the pending take to become all-level once again.
Buttons
The NV9603A has 3 classes of button functions:
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Dedicated functions, such as ‘Default State’ and ‘Chop’.
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Variable functions, such as ‘Category’, ‘Source’, or ‘Destination’. A category button initiates or
carries out device selection. A source button selects a specific source. A destination button
selects a specific destination.
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Special functions, such as ‘Menu’ and ‘Salvo’.
At present, there are 24 button types, not including “undefined” which is not a true button type:
(If a button on your panel is undefined, it will remain dark and will not operate.)
Broadcast
A broadcast button applies to a data (or machine control) level only. The button assigns one
controlling device (the master) to multiple controlled devices (the slaves). The function is useful
in dubbing applications. See
on page 37 for more information.
Pressing the ‘Broadcast’ button turns off the ‘Source is Master’ button and vice versa.
Category
A category button has 3 functions:
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Select a source category and initiate device selection for that category.