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8000a Cross Point Mapping

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Clint Hendricks
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Hello All:

Our station is probably getting an 8000a and we are trying to do some planning before its arrival to expedite its implementation.

When assigning cross points can each M/E and the Aux Bus have a different button layout? For example there may be items that we feed into monitors (fed by the aux bus) much more frequently than called up fullscreen on air so we may want those on the "main" side of the aux bux crosspoints but on the "Shift" side of the M/E crosspoints or possibly not even on the m/e + p/p buttons.

Also, does the "auto select" key source have to be mapped to a crosspoint button or can the key sources be eliminated from the cross point buttons to free up button space as long as the "auto select" input key source is set in the auto select menu?

Thanks for the help!

-Clint

Bob Ennis
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When you do your crosspoint mapping, you will be doing it in the MAIN V/K Pair Assign (menu page 7322.5). Once you have made all of your assignments, you can map the actual button layouts to any one of 14 tables (all tables use the Main V/K Pairing as their reference). You assign whatever table you would like to whatever M/E or AUX bus you would like. You can assign different tables to different AUXes, so as you delegate AUXes, the button mapping will change on the AUX panel. I think that this is what you have described as what you want to do. When doing your MAIN V/K Pair assignments, you can associate key inputs to their fill signal. In this way, you don't have to map the key hole-cutters to the panel. A special buton on the AUX panel lets you see & select key sources, even though they aren't mapped to active panel buttons. And when you press the SPLIT button in te keyer panel, the source names & buttons change to the key sources so that you can program breakaway keys. One trick that I do is this: if I have 2 channels of DDR as a V/K pair, I often map them as A with B as its keyer. I also map B as a source with A as its keyer. In this way, I can easily use either A or B as a V/K pair, as Video only, or use either DDR as the breakaway hole-cutter for any other keyed source on the switcher. I also do this with Frame Mems (FM1=fill with FM2 as key, FM2 as fill with FM1 as key, etc.) - that way ANY FM can be used as either a video fill, a key source, or as a self-keyed source.

Bob Ennis