Saving A Macro; Macro Editing Using Menus; Macro Register Editing; Online Editing Of Macro Events - Sony MVS-8000X User Manual

Saving a Macro

Use the following procedure to save the register after
creating or editing/modifying a macro.
1
In the numeric keypad control block, press the
[MCRO] button, turning it on.
This assigns the numeric keypad control block to
macro operations.
2
Press the [STORE] button, turning it on.
3
Enter the number of the register (1 to 250) in which
you want to save the macro with the numeric keypad
buttons.
To search for an empty register, instead of entering a
number, press the [.] (period) button.
The display shows the corresponding register number.
A letter "E" after the number indicates that the
corresponding register is empty.
4
Press the [ENTER] button.
This saves the macro data in the specified register, and
the [STORE] button goes off.
The [RCALL] and [STORE STATS] buttons light.
To cancel the saving of a macro
To cancel the saving of a macro immediately after
performing it, hold down the [STORE STATS] button and
press the [UNDO] button.
Macro Editing Using
Menus
Using any of the menus in the following table, you can edit
macro registers and macro events.
Menu Function
Register menu Carry out macro
(macro register register editing.
editing)
On Line Edit Edit events in a
menu (online macro register,
editing of using the control
macro events) panel and menus.
Off Line Edit Edit events in a
menu (offline macro register, on
editing of the hard disk, or on
macro events) a memory card,
using the menus.

Macro Register Editing

You can display the current state of a macro register using
the Macro >Register menu.
The items displayed are the same as under "Effect Status
Display" (page 408), with the exception that the region
name is not displayed and that the total number of macro
events saved in the register is displayed.
In the Macro >Register menu, you can do the following
editing operations on macro registers.
• Lock: Write-protect the contents of the register.
• Copy: Copy the contents of one register to another
register.
• Delete: Delete the contents of a register.
• Name: Attach a name to a register.
The operations for macro register editing are the same as
those for effect register editing (see page 408) except the
region selection operation, which is not necessary for
macro register editing.

Online Editing of Macro Events

Using the On Line Edit menu, you carry out online editing
of macro events.
In the On Line Edit menu, you can check the control panel
operating sequence in the menu. You can also carry out
editing using the control panel and menu.
Operations
• Locking a register
• Copying a register
• Deleting a register
• Naming a register
• Inserting an event
• Deleting an event
• Modifying an event
• Inserting an event
• Adding an event
• Deleting an event
• Creating a new
macro
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Macro Editing Using Menus