Chapter 20 Switcher Setup (Switcher); Settings For Switcher Configuration (Config Menu); Adjusting The Reference Phase; Specifying The Video Switching Timing - Sony MVS-8000X User Manual

Switcher Setup
(Switcher)
Settings for Switcher
Configuration (Config
Menu)
To make settings for the switcher processor configuration,
use the Switcher >Config menu.
To display the Config menu
In the Engineering Setup menu, select VF3 'Switcher' and
HF1 'Config.'
The status area shows the output signal assignment for
each of the M/E and PGM/PST banks.
The following functions are available here.
• System Phase: Adjust the switcher internal reference
phase.
• Switching Timing: Specify the timing of video
switching.
• M/E Config: Set the configuration for the M/E and
PGM/PST outputs.
- Standard mode: Fix the output configuration for the
maximum of four outputs (Out1 to 4) as follows.
Out1: Program output
Out2: Preview output
Out3: Clean output
Out4: Key preview output
- Multi-program mode: Increase the number of M/E
or PGM/PST programs, and assign any of the
following to the maximum of six outputs (Out1 to 6)
(M/E Output Assign).
Program outputs 1 to 4, preview output, key preview
1)
outputs 1 and 2, clean output.
Further, you can select the program background from
Clean or Utility2, and change the combination of
signals from which the program output is configured
(PGM Config).
- DSK mode: Treats PGM/PSTs as DSKs by assigning
one of the Out1 to Out6 outputs of M/E-1 to M/E-5 to
the background on the PGM/PST program outputs.
You can also change the signals that make up the
output signal selection (M/E Output Assign), program
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Settings for Switcher Configuration (Config Menu)

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Chapter
output, and key preview output
and K-PVW-Config.
1) For the key preview output, you can select either video mode
(background and key) or key mode (key only), and select the
background and key (K-PVW Config).
• User 1 to 8 Config: Assign the User regions, being color
backgrounds 1 and 2, AUX1 to 48, frame memory 1 to
8, and color correctors 1 and 2, to any of User1 to User8.
• Logical M/E Assign: Make settings for handling PGM/
PST hardware logically as an M/E.
• DME Config: Set the DME channel assignments used
on the individual M/E and PGM/PST banks.
• Side Flags: Make settings relating to the side flag
function (inserting a selected image on both sides of a
4:3 image).

Adjusting the Reference Phase

To adjust the switcher internal reference phase, in the
Switcher >Config menu, set the following parameter.
Knob Parameter Adjustment
3 Phase Switcher internal
reference phase
Specifying the Video Switching
Timing
1
In the Switcher >Config menu, press [Switching
Timing].
The Switching Timing menu appears.
2
Select any of the following.
Any: Not specified
Field 1: Field 1 (odd fields)
Field 2: Field 2 (even fields)
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1)
using PGM Config
Setting values
–32.00 to
+96.00