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

You can select normal execution mode or step execution
mode by a selection in the Setup menus (see page 201).

Creating and Editing a Macro

To create or edit a macro, first recall the register in which
the created macro will be saved, or the register holding the
macro to be edited, then press the [EDIT ENBL] button.
The [MCRO] button and [EDIT ENBL] button light red,
and the memory recall section switches to the macro
editing mode as shown in the following illustration.
For the method of recalling an empty register, see
"Recalling a Macro Register and Executing a Macro"
(page 100).
In this mode, you can use the following buttons for macro
creation, editing, saving, and deletion.
[EXIT] button: Forcibly exit editing mode.
[UNDO] button: Undo the last macro event insertion,
modification, deletion, paste, or other operation.
[PAUS] button: Insert a pause event (see page 98).
[AUTO INS] button: Toggle auto insert mode on or off
(see page 95).
[COPY] button: Copy a macro event (see page 97).
[PSTE] button: Paste a macro event (see page 98).
[ALL] button: Select all macro events (see page 97).
[STOR] button: Save the macro (see page 98).
[INS] button: Insert a macro event (see page 96).
[MOD] button: Modify a macro event (see page 97).
[DEL] button: Delete a macro event (see page 97).
[FROM TO] button: Switch to the mode for entering a
value range with the numeric keypad (see page 97).
[SHFT] button: Move a macro event (see page 97).
[<< PREV] button: Move the edit point to the previous
event (see page 104).
[>> NEXT] button: Move the edit point to the next event
(see page 104).
[GOTO EVNT] button: Switch to the mode for
specifying an event to move to with the numeric
keypad (see page 96).
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Macro Editing Using Menus

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 63), 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 63) 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