Chapter 13 External Devices; External Device Control - Sony XVS-G1 User Manual

External Devices

External Device Control

You can control operations on the following types of
external device.
• P-Bus (Peripheral Bus II protocol) devices
• GPI devices
• VTRs (Sony 9-pin VTR protocol)
• Disk recorders (video disk communications protocol,
Odetics protocol)
• AMP (Advanced Media Protocol) compatible devices
1) Unless otherwise specifically stated in this document, "disk recorder"
includes AMP compatible devices.
You can also operate external devices controlled by other
protocols over a network using general-purpose TCP/IP
connection settings.
For details about the devices that can be connected, consult
your Sony representative.
Control of GPI devices
Operate an external device using a GPI output port.
Control of P-Bus devices, VTRs, and disk
recorders
Operate an external device using a serial port or network
port.
Notes
• The maximum number of ports that can be used,
including serial ports and network ports, is 40.
• A serial port can be used when an XKS-G1700 Legacy
Interface Board (option) is installed.
• Control of P-Bus compatible devices, AMP compatible
devices, and TCP/IP connected devices is supported on
network ports.
• Control of AMP compatible devices is not supported on
serial ports.
• The connection ports must be configured in order to
operate devices connected to serial ports or network
ports.
For details, see "Setting the Connection Port of External
Devices" (page 335).
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• To use a disk recorder, the target file from the file list
must be loaded.
For details, see "Disk Recorder File Operations"
(page 171).
Effect timelines
You can register external device control data on an effect
timeline.
Effect timeline registers
The maximum number of registers that can be used in an
1)
external device region is given below.
Device 1 to Device 12: 250 per device
P-Bus: 250
GPI: 99
Notes
• Actions configured on an effect timeline are executed
only when the effect timeline is operating in the normal
direction.
• The following actions cannot be set.
- Keyframe loop
- Effect timeline loop
- Reverse direction execution
- Normal/reverse direction execution
- Keyframe path
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