Grass Valley Xpanel Vertigo Suite v.4.8 - Manual (Page 68)

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Building and editing panels
Creating a Channel Selector
When the panel is brought into Production mode, a Channel Selector object allows
operators to choose the channel that an object’s actions will be applied to. Operators can
switch easily between individual channels and thereby use the same objects to control
multiple channels.
The Channel Selector can also be used to gang the channels, which means selecting two
or more channels so that operations carried out on the panel are sent simultaneously to all
of the ganged channels (multiple channels).
After you have created and configured a Channel Selector object, see “Selecting channels
using a Channel Selector” on page 7-5 for information and instructions on using a Channel
Selector in Production mode.
Adding and configuring a channel selector:
1.
Ensure that a Station Configuration is currently loaded in Xpanel.
2. Add a C HANNEL S ELECTOR object to the panel.
The Channel Selector first appears as an empty text object that displays N O C HANNELS .
3. Display the channel selector’s properties by opening the P ROPERTIES view (C TRL +R)
and selecting the channel selector object.
4. Set the N UMBER OF R OWS , C HANNELS PER R OW and G ROUPS PER R OW properties,
which determines the number of channel buttons (usually one per channel) and the
number of rows in which they will be displayed.
5. Select the C HANNEL L IST property and click the button, which opens the S ELECT
CHANNELS window.
6. Assign the Station Configuration’s channel to the Channel Selector’s buttons by moving
them from the A
VAILABLE CHANNELS list to the S ELECTED CHANNEL list and then click OK.
Figure 4-11 demonstrates that the order in which they appear in the S ELECTED CHANNELS
list determines which button they are assigned to. For example, first in the list is assigned
to the first button, second in list is assigned to second button...
Figure 4-11. Assigning channels to the Channel Selector’s buttons