A Word Of Caution; Table Button Assign - Sony MVS -8000X Quick Setup Manual

Table Button Assign

Please jump back to menu 7322 and select Table Button Assign.
This screen looks a lot like the MAIN table assign. First, be sure knob #1 is set to "Table 1", since that's
what we're using everywhere.
The left table represents the actual buttons on the switcher panel. Button 1 is all the way to the left.
Button 2 is to the right of button 1 and so on. If your panel has 32 crosspoint buttons, then button 33
will be SHIFT + Button 1. If you scroll the lest table, you will notice the background color of the table
changes slightly to inform you that you're working on shifted buttons. The right table is your
engineering MAIN V/K pair. The good news here is, when an operator wants to put the CG (which has
both Video and Key) to a button, they don't have to worry about setting both the video and key, they
just select from the right table and the V/K are brought over automatically. Also, since Sub Tables
(TABLE1-14 are sub-tables) are always referenced to the MAIN table, any changes to make in the MAIN
table will trickle down to all the sub tables. Practice changing the location of your newly wired inputs
and place them on different buttons. Keep in mind if you use INSERT or DELETE, inputs may fall off the
panel and become inaccessible. When you're finished it might be a good idea to return everything to
"normal" until everyone understands how this works.

A Word of Caution!

One BIG, BIG word of caution.... After the switcher is on-line or operators have done a substantial
amount of setup with button tables, avoid changing the MAIN table without a very good reason. All of
the operator's effects store crosspoint data from the selected sub-table. Since all the sub-tables directly
reference the MAIN table, any changes made in the MAIN table might make effects work incorrectly.
For instance, let's say you had CAM1 on Input 1 and you set Input 1 to MAIN table V/K pair #2. The
operator uses TABLE1 and sets your V/K pair #2 to button 10. The operator has many effects for the
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