Sony MVS-8000X User Manual page 244

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Using two or three DME channels on one keyer
Notes
When the signal format is 1080P, the combination of two consecutively
numbered DME channels that can be selected is DME1 and DME2, DME3 and
DME4, DME5 and DME6, or DME7 and DME8. It is not possible to combine
three or more DME channels.
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Using four DME channels on one keyer
Notes
When the signal format is 1080P, this operation cannot be carried out.
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Key Setting Operations Using Menus
In the <DME Select> group, select the DME channel (DME1 to DME8) to
be used.
The lit colors of [DME1] to [DME8] indicate the DME assignment.
Lit green: Shows the DME assigned to the currently selected key.
Lit amber: Shows the DME assigned to a key other than the currently
selected key.
Off: DME is not assigned.
To select a DME being used by another keyer
Press [Override], turning it on, then select the DME channel.
The later selection is valid, and the button lights green.
Select the DME for the first channel (see the previous item, "Assigning a
DME to a key"), then select the successive channel for the second channel.
For the third channel select the channel after that.
To select the video signal for the second channel, hold down the [UTIL]
button in the cross-point control block, and select the signal in the Key1
row (DME external video bus).
To select the video signal for the third channel, hold down the [UTIL]
button in the cross-point control block, and carry out the following
operation.
• If the selected DME is channel 3 or channel 4, turn off the [KEY4]
button in the key 2 row, then select the signal in the key 2 row (DME
utility 1 bus).
• If the selected DME is channel 7 or channel 8, turn on the [KEY4] button
in the key 2 row, then select the signal in the key 4 row (DME utility 2
bus).