Control Of External Device; External Machines; 9-Pin (Sony P2 Protocol); Setting Up An External Machine - Merging Pyramix User Manual

Pyramix can control and be controlled by a wide variety of external hardware. This chapter, Machine Control
deals with situations where Pyramix is controlling and external machine or machines.

Control of External Device

If Pyramix is controlling another machine, (with the exception of GPO control) this device must be set up as an
External Machine.

External Machines

9-pin (Sony P2 protocol)

9-pin Control of External Machine

If you wish to control a 9-pin slave machine from Pyramix the target machine must be set up as an external
machine. If you wish to control Pyramix as a slave from an external 9-pin controller / synchronizer then the exter-
nal controller must be set up as a Remote Controller in Pyramix. Please see: Control by External Device on
page 392
Connection for the Sony 9-Pin protocol
Please see: Appendix VI 9 - Pin connection on page 576 for a description of the physical connection between
the PC's COM port and the RS-422 connector of the external machine.

Setting up an external machine

• Select the Settings > All Settings > Remote Control > Machine page
• Click the Add button.
• Enter a suitable name for the external machine in the Name field, such as "Betacam".
• Choose the Driver for the machine from the drop-down list. Sony 9-pin
• Check the Enable field.
• Adjust the Driver Properties, the Port Properties and the Settings according to your needs. Please
see: Sony 9-Pin Protocol Configuration (Machine) on page 540
• Click OK to confirm all the entries and to add the new machine to the list.
Note: Since Merging Technologies products are based on hard disk and computer tech-
nology they do not need to take account of the color framing sequence. (Used to pro-
duce 'legal' picture editis). Therefore Sony P2 devices must have their Color Framing
mode disabled (2F), in order to synchronise correctly. Please see the device manufac-
turer's documentation for the correct procedure to do this.
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