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Control of External Devices
Chapter
Chapter 12 External Devices
12
External Devices
Control of External
Devices
In this system, you can operate while controlling the
following types of external device:
Devices supporting P-Bus (Peripheral II protocol)
(referred to as “P-Bus devices” in the manual)
Devices supporting GPI
•VTRs
Disk recorder (Sony disk 9-pin protocol and video disk
communications protocol)
Extended VTR (Abekas A53 protocol)
For details on the devices that can be connected, consult
your Sony representative.
Use the Device menu to carry out operations for
controlling above external devices.
To access the Device menu
In the menu control block, press the top menu selection
button [DEV].
VTR, Extended VTR, and disk recorder operations are
only possible when the optional device control block
(MKS-8031TB trackball module or MKS-8036A search
dial module) is installed.
To operate P-Bus devices, VTRs, Extended VTRs, and
disk recorders in the this system, the following settings
are required on the DCU 9-pin serial port.
- Device type setting
- Device name
- Setting of control panel (SCU) to be used
For details of the settings, see “Making Serial Port
Settings” (page 559).
When using a disk recorder or Extended VTR, be sure to
go to the Device >DDR/VTR >File List menu, and recall
the file
(see page 378).
Shared Functions for External
Device Control
Keyframe functions
There are 250 registers, numbered 1 to 250, holding
external device control data as keyframe data (see page
381) (only 99 registers for the GPI timeline).
The following are the keyframe functions that can be used.
RECALL (1-250), STORE (1-250), RECALL UNDO,
STORE UNDO, empty register search, AUTO SAVE,
RECALL MODE (RECALL, RECALL & REWIND)
EDIT ENABLE, EDIT UNDO
CONST DUR, EFF DUR, KF DUR, DELAY, PAUSE,
INSERT BEFORE, INSERT AFTER, MODIFY,
DELETE, COPY, PASTE BEFORE, PASTE AFTER,
FROM TO, ALL
PREV KF, NEXT KF, GOTO TC, GOTO KF, RUN,
REWIND, FF, STOP NEXT KF, NORMAL, JOG, KF
FADER
Actions set in a keyframe are executed only when the
keyframe effect is executed in the normal direction. Take
care when executing simultaneously with a switcher or
DME keyframe effect, since the actions are not executed
in the reverse direction.
The following keyframe functions cannot be used.
- KF LOOP, EFFECT LOOP, REVERSE, NORMAL/
REVERSE
-PATH
Saving to registers
Set the data for controlling external devices in the Device
menu. You can save the set data in keyframe, snapshot, or
shotbox registers (see page 380). You can recall the
register in which the data is saved, and carry out operations
on it with the keyframe control block.
Notes
Notes

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