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Grass Valley Zodiak v.6.0 Mar 15 2006 User Manual

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Zodiak — User Manual

Section 3 — Control Surface Description

To enter only fields, use two separators before the number. For example, a
time of 30 fields (one half second on 60 hz systems) is entered by typing:

,

,

30

,

Enter

You can actually enter any combination of seconds, frames and fields. The
Zodiak system will do the conversion and display the result in seconds,
frame, field format.

Decimal values for other non-time parameters are also input on the Master
E-MEM subpanel with the numeric keys, the

Undo/•

button for the decimal,

and the

Enter

button to complete the entry. If a default value exists for an

entry, it can be input without typing in a value by pressing:

,

Enter

The Zodiak Menu panel also provides a touch activated keypad for
entering values directly into menus, using similar procedures.