Creating And Editing A Macro Timeline - Sony MVS-8000X User Manual

Forcibly ending a macro timeline
• If the timeline has completed but a macro is still
executing, press the [REWIND] or [RUN] button in the
key frame control block to forcibly end the macro
timeline.
• In a macro timeline, since a take operation is not
possible, if a macro included in the timeline has a pause
event with a pause time of zero, the remainder of the
timeline after the pause is ignored, and the macro
timeline ends at that point.
Register editing functions
You can use the following editing functions on a register
in which a macro timeline is stored.
• Copy
• Move
• Swap
• Merge
• Lock
• Name
• Delete
File-related functions
You can save and recall a created macro timeline as effect
data, in the File menu.
Timeline operations are carried out on a macro timeline in
the same way as for normal effects.
For details of timeline operations, see "Keyframe Effects"
(page 29).
Notes
When using a macro timeline, note the following.
• To use a macro timeline, the Macro region must be
assigned to a region selection button in the numeric
keypad control block.
For details of region assignment operations, see
"Assigning a Region to the Region Selection Buttons in
the Numeric Keypad Control Block or Multifunction
Flexi Pad Control Block" (page 165).
• On a macro timeline, only macro recall and execution
actions are stored. The data for a macro to be recalled on
the macro timeline is not held on the timeline. It is
necessary to create the macro data first.
• A macro timeline can be saved and recalled on the
master timeline or a shotbox register, but cannot be
saved as a snapshot.
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Macro Timeline
Creating and Editing a Macro
Timeline
This section describes how to set actions, and add
keyframe points. Note that path settings are not needed on
the macro timeline.
For details of keyframe operations, see "Creating and
Editing Keyframes" (page 45).
Saving a keyframe
For the operations, use the Macro Timeline menu and the
[INS] button in the keyframe control block.
1
Press the [EDIT ENBL] button, turning it on.
This enables timeline editing in the keyframe control
block.
2
In the Macro menu, select VF4 'Timeline' and HF1
'Timeline.'
The Macro Timeline menu appears.
3
Select one of the actions (Recall, Take, Take All, No
Action) that appear on the right.
When you have selected Recall or Take, turn the knob
to select the number of the macro register.
Knob Parameter Adjustment
3 Reg No Selection of
macro register
4
Press [Set].
The selected action appears in the Action column on
the left.
5
Press the [INS] button in the keyframe control block.
This creates the keyframe 1 on the macro timeline.
To set the action for a rewind operation
On the macro timeline, when the [REWIND] button in the
keyframe control block is pressed the action set for the first
keyframe is not executed; when the [RUN] button is
pressed, then the first keyframe action is executed.
To execute an action when the [REWIND] button is
pressed, it is necessary to set this action (Rewind Action).
To carry out this setting, in the Macro >Timeline
>Timeline menu, press [Rewind Action] to recall the
Rewind Action menu. In this setting screen, use the same
setting method as in the screen for setting an action on the
macro timeline.
Alternatively, you can select the reverse arrangement,
whereby when the
[REWIND] button is pressed, this executes the action set
for the first keyframe, and when the [RUN] button is
Setting values
1 to 250