Grass Valley Xpanel Vertigo Suite v.4.8 - Manual (Page 65)

Xpanel User Manual 4-31
Building and editing panels
Configuring an object’s Control properties
When an object is selected, its properties are displayed in the Properties view. The
C
ONTROL category contains properties that determine to which devices, channels and
keyer/audio layer the object’s actions are applied.
The following sections provide information and advice for how to set an object’s control
properties:
•
“Channels: Dedicated versus interactive channel control” on page 4-31
• “Devices: Selecting which devices to control” on page 4-32
• “Keyer, Voice Over and Easyplay Layers” on page 4-33
Channels: Dedicated versus interactive channel control
The C HANNELS property is used to determine to which channel the object’s actions will be
applied. The following sections describe two ways of configuring an object’s Channels property,
depending upon whether you want the object’s channel control to be dedicated or interactive.
Dedicated channel control
If the object is meant to always control specific channels and devices, we recommend
dedicating the object to control specific channels by setting the object’s Control properties
(D
EVICES and C HANNELS ) to the specific channels and devices to be controlled. When the panel
is brought into Production mode, the object’s actions only apply to the channels specified in the
object’s C
HANNELS property. You cannot change the object’s Channels properties, without
returning to Design mode and manually making edits to these properties.
Figure 4-8 demonstrates that you can configure an object to control a single or multiple
channels by selecting from among the channels listed in the Channels property’s drop-
down control. Note that the channel list is automatically populated with the channels from
the currently loaded station configuration.
Figure 4-8. Configuring an object to be dedicated to specific channels
When you select two or more channels, the M ASTER C HANNEL field is automatically filled in with
the first channel that was selected. You can set any of the selected channels as the Master
Channel. The importance of the master channel is that the Xpanel only displays the status of
this channel. Indication such as which media is loaded into a channel or which keyers are cut
up is based on tallies coming back from this device. The object’s other selected channels are
known as ‘slave’ channels so any action carried out on the panel will be carried out on these
channels, but the status of these channels will not be reflected in Xpanel.