Grass Valley NV9000-SE v.5.0 - Manual (Page 272)

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Control Panels
NV9608 and NV9616
Function Buttons
The panel’s 24 function buttons and two scroll buttons are backlit buttons. The buttons can be
green or amber. Each button provides three levels of tally: off, low, and high.
Ten of the buttons, arranged like a telephone keypad, have fixed functions. These 10 buttons are
“category” buttons, representing category mnemonics or category suffixes or both:
The other 14 function buttons can be assigned any available function.
The function buttons each have clear plastic keycaps under which you may place plastic inserts
for button legends. All buttons of the NV9616V (virtual panel) have automatically generated
button legends.
See Devices and Device Categories on page 137 for information on categories and suffixes.
Modes of Operation
The panels can operate in one of 2 modes:
• X-Y mode.
• Multi-destination (MD) mode.
The panels can be configured so that either mode is selectable by the operator.
Multi-Destination Mode
The panel supports up to 512 MD destinations. The NV9616 displays 16 at a time on the LCD
buttons. The NV9608 displays 8 at a time.
In MD mode, the LCD buttons are generally green — and high-tally when selected. They become
yellow when you have selected a source and red when you have locked or protected a
destination.
Breakaway is not directly possible in MD mode, but when the operator performs breakaway in
X-Y mode and then switches to MD mode, the destination(s) for which breakaway occurred
show the device name in reverse text.
X-Y Mode
The LCD buttons represent a single selected destination and the levels for that destination.
The destination appears on the top left LCD button. This button is generally amber. The button is
red when the destination is locked.
The remaining LCD buttons show the destination’s levels. The level buttons are generally green.
Level buttons turn yellow when you have selected a source on those levels. If there are more
levels than available buttons, the operator can scroll through the pages of levels using the scroll
buttons. The destination button remains in its fixed position regardless of the page.
Breakaway is possible in X-Y mode. Operators select the levels for which the take is to occur by
pressing the individual LCD buttons that represent the levels. (Scrolling might be necessary to
view all the levels.)