Setting The Control Mode For P-Bus Devices; Setting The Scu Editor Panel Port; Making Dcu Serial Port Settings - Sony MVS-8000X User Manual

When Source is M/E-x: Keyx SS ? Recall, No Action
When Source is P/P: DSKx SS ? Recall, No Action
When Source is Common: KF Run, No Action
Action list when the trigger type is "Status"
(In M/E-x, the x is the M/E bank number (1 to 4); in DSKx the x is
the DSK number (1 to 8); in Keyx the x is the key number (1 to 8)).
When Source is M/E-x: Keyx SS ? Recall, Keyx On, No Action
When Source is P/P: DSKx SS ? Recall, DSKx On, No Action
When Source is Common: Error Make, Error Break, Keep Break,
Keep Make, PREFS1, PREFS2, PREFS3, PREFS4, PREFS5,
PREFS6, PREFS7, PREFS8, PREFS9, PREFS10, PREFS11,
PREFS12, PREFS13, PREFS14, PREFS15, PREFS16, Device
Recording, No Action
b) When knob 2 selection is "Key Snapshot"
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Press [Action Set] to confirm the action selection.
The selected setting appears in the status area.
Test firing the trigger
To test fire the trigger, press [Test Fire].
This outputs a trigger from the selected output port. This is
not output when the trigger type is "Status."
Setting the Control Mode for P-Bus
Devices
In the <P-Bus Control> group of the Panel >Device
Interface menu, select the mode.
Trigger: When a predetermined button is pressed, the
action command assigned to that button is output, to
control an external device.
Timeline: The external device is controlled as a keyframe
effect controlled by the center control panel.

Setting the SCU Editor Panel Port

When an editing keyboard is used, this port setting is for
the editing keyboard if the license for the BZS-8050 is
valid (see page 477), and for the serial tally if the license
for the BZS-8050 is invalid.
If you want to use the port setting for the serial tally when
the license for the BZS-8050 is valid, select [Serial Tally]
from the <Editor Port Assign> group in the Panel >Device
Interface menu.
Serial Tally: Use the SCU editor panel port for the serial
tally.
Editor Keyboard: Use the SCU editor panel port for the
editing keyboard.

Making DCU Serial Port Settings

You can assign buttons in the device control block (DEV1
to DEV12) to DCU serial ports, to operate the devices
(disk recorder/VTR/Extended VTR) connected to these
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Interfacing With External Devices (Device Interface Menu)
ports. For a disk recorder/Extended VTR, you can also set
the sharing of file lists.
For details of DCU serial port settings, see "Serial Port
Settings (Serial Port Assign Menu)" (page 559).
Associating a serial port with a device
selection button
1
In the Panel >Device Interface menu, press [DCU
Serial Port/MPE Assign].
The DCU Serial Port/MPE Assign menu appears.
2
Using any of the following methods, select the DCU
serial port.
• Press directly on the list in the status area.
• Press the arrow keys to scroll the reverse video
cursor.
• Turn the knob.
Knob Parameter Adjustment
1 No Serial port
selection
a) The range of the setting value depends on the DCU port settings.
The DCU number, slot number, and serial port number
appear.
3
Select the device selection button to be assigned from
the <Assign> group.
Notes
• It is not possible to assign more than one device
selection button to the same port. The later assigned
device selection button takes priority, and the
previous selection is invalidated.
• If P-Bus/Mixer ESAM-II is assigned to a serial port,
it is not possible to assign a device selection button
to that port.
4
Repeat steps 2 and 3 as required to make assignments
to other ports.
To select whether to use an editing keyboard
If you want to use an editing keyboard for the selected
device, select a port using the same operation as in step 2,
then press [Plug-In Editor Enbl] to display "Enbl" in the
Editor column. If you do not want to use an editing
keyboard, press [Plug-In Editor Enbl] to make the "Enbl"
display disappear.
Notes
• This selection is possible when the BZS-8050 license is
valid (see page 477).
Setting values
1 and
a)
upwards