Input Source Previews; Active Source Highlights - Videonics MXPro User Manual

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Chapter 4

Input Source Previews

Active Source Highlights

• FULL – Displays only the Input Source Preview windows, each in a larger size.
Transitions Menu not displayed ( SHIFT+3 ).
• NEXT — Displays full-screen image of the NEXT input source. Transitions Menu
not displayed ( SHIFT+4 ).
• CURRENT — Displays full-screen image of the CURRENT input source. Transitions
Menu not displayed ( SHIFT+5 ).
See "Display" beginning on page 73 for examples of these configurations. Unless
stated otherwise, this guide assumes you are using the STANDARD preview.
A small, preview image from each input source appears in a separate window. Use the
previews to direct the action, position cameras, find a particular sequence on a video
tape, and so forth. The preview images do not show Input Effects (see Chapter 6, Input
Effects ).
You can have up to four input sources. MXPro labels the sources A, B, C, and D. (There
is also a fifth, built-in source — the mixer's own background color generator.) All tran-
sitions start with one source, called the CURRENT source, and end with another, called
the NEXT source.
Colored highlights help identify one video source from another. Yellow highlights the
CURRENT video source (above the preview image), and green highlights the NEXT
video source (below it)
Some sources provide audio only, others provide both video and audio. The
speaker icon (rather than a colored highlight) indicates the CURRENT and
NEXT audio selections.
The headphones icon identifies the channel to which the headphone output is
currently directed.
In addition to the highlights described above, indicator lights between the CUT and
NEXT buttons indicate the currently selected video sources.
A B
CUT
NEXT
A B
Brief descriptions of the Transitions Menu, Highlights, and Indicators follow. For more
detailed information, see Chapter 5, Transitions.
C D COLOR
C D COLOR
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Indicator Lights
A steady light identifies the CURRENT
video source. A blinking light identifies
the NEXT video source.