Linking A Control Panel With The Menu; Entering And Displaying Text/Numbers - Sony MLS-X1 User Manual

Linking a Control Panel
with the Menu
You can set a menu to operate by linking it with an
operation from a control panel.
Multiple MLS-X1 menu sessions can be connected
simultaneously, but only one MLS-X1 menu session can
be linked to an operation from a control panel.
The following control panel operations are link targets.
• Setting a parameter in the utility control block in menu
parameter operation mode
• Setting a parameter in the device control block in menu
parameter operation mode
• Recalling a menu by double-pressing a control panel
button
• Menu shortcut functions of the memory recall buttons
in the utility/shotbox control block, memory recall
buttons in the utility control block, and cross-point
buttons in the cross-point control block
Panel link button
1
Press the panel link button in the header area.
The connected control panel and the link icon are
displayed on the panel link button.
2
Check the message, then press [OK].
The control panel link is set and the link icon turns
light blue.
Note
If a control panel link is set while the control panel is
linked to another menu session, the other menu link is
canceled.
Also, once you set a control panel link, it cannot be
canceled until another menu session is linked to the
same control panel.
Entering and Displaying
Text/Numbers
Press a numeric keypad input button to display the
numeric keypad window and enter a numeric value.
For details, see "Numeric keypad window" (page 67).
Press a keyboard input button and enter alphanumeric
characters using a computer keyboard/on-screen
keyboard/touch panel.
Invalid characters for names
The following characters cannot be used for entering
names.
\ / : * ?
Note
When entering names shown on control panel buttons and
the display, "|" is used as a line break code.
Name settings when multiple items are
selected
When setting a name with multiple items selected, the
same name may be set or a consecutive number may be
appended to the name depending on the menu.
In the following menus, a consecutive number is
appended to the name.
• Home > Setup > System > Input > Input Adjust menu
(19101.31)
• Home > Setup > System > Source > Edit Source Name
menu (19101.71)
• Home > Setup > Xpt Assign > V/K Pair > Logical V/K
Pair Assign menu (19102.21)
• Home > Setup > Xpt Assign > V/K Pair > Edit Logical
V/K Pair Name menu (19102.22)
• Home > Setup > Panel > Module > Utility Function
Assign menu (19104.22)
Example:
Setting the source name of signals
If three signals are selected as the target and you enter
"CAM", the name of each signal will become "CAM1",
"CAM2", and "CAM3".
Timecode input and frame number input
When entering a timecode, you can select either timecode
input mode or frame number input mode.
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