In a control room, I have an old but perfectly working DVS7250 and a Pinnacle eXcel DVE. They are not interfaced. In a production, there is the need to recall multiple effects a DVE and I would like to do this from the switcher shotbox. The DVE allow for BVW-75 remote control, so I have tried a serial link from an editor port to the DVE port.

I have no manuals. If I guess correctly, I have to setup the switcher Editor A port as "remote" instead of "editor", so that it becomes the master port, and issue commands to the DVE. I only need to cue up to a specific timecode, if I set it to 2:00:00, for example, the DVE will load the second effect in its loaded sequence.

I have tried to do this creating a shotbox that recalls a manual timecode to the VTR 1, but nothing happens when I recall it. I have also tried to assign it to an utility key, then to load and run it as if it were a timeline, but still nothing.

I'm quite sure the DVE setup is ok, I'm going to try with an editor controller to be totally sure. Can someone lend me any advice?

Thanks in advance.