Thanks Greg, I may look into setting up the GPI loop back. Just to have another option. I am at a Comcast station.

[quote="scange"]Greg, Thanks so much for the help. And Dan, thanks for clarifying. I have figured out how to run the macros from keyframes, and I love it so far. But, here's the deal: I need ME3's sub emem panel to recall ME 2's to make these 7 keyer boxes. So I am currently recalling ME2 with a macro in ME3's 1st keyframe. Thats cool. But, I'd like to fire some other macros on PGM to under cut some FF effects there. Do you guys know how I can trigger macros from keyframes from 2 different emem panels? Thanks very much for the help so far, Mike~[/quote] Mike, is there a reason why the box effect can't be recalled via pgm/pst emem panel? I would do it all on pgm/pst, and then you will be fine. You can still have undercut stuff working for the FFV and recall ME 3, etc. If you are worried about recall speed, use one of of your keyer rows as a macro recall row, and build macros that just call up emems. Again I don't know your situation, but unless you are recalling ME 3 and running transitions at the same time, you should be ok. I guess what you are looking for is a way to run some macros from one enabled level and then run others from ME 3's subpanel. Guess that would be a cool software change. It would be like Greg's idea of using GPI out's each of them can be different enabled levels. One other idea is to attach the macros to an unused button like user 1,2,3, etc Bill

Mike, I do something similar except I use the old GPI loop back. Heres how. We have GPI outs looped back into GPI ins. One of the outs run on gpi 5 and the trigger in is on the GPI 5 in. I run a timeline on ME3 and have gpi triggers 5 emem prefed to ME3. When I run the timeline, on the 4th keyframe it fires a gpi that recalls a setup on ME1. It works rather well for me and I can still run the macros on the master emem. (I have it recall an ME but you can also have it trigger a transition/recall an emem/select a source.) I could probably do this with macros but I built it prior to the release of macros, I haven't really had a chance to rebuild it yet. Are you at a station in Philly? greg

Greg, Thanks so much for the help. And Dan, thanks for clarifying. I have figured out how to run the macros from keyframes, and I love it so far. But, here's the deal: I need ME3's sub emem panel to recall ME 2's to make these 7 keyer boxes. So I am currently recalling ME2 with a macro in ME3's 1st keyframe. Thats cool. But, I'd like to fire some other macros on PGM to under cut some FF effects there. Do you guys know how I can trigger macros from keyframes from 2 different emem panels? Thanks very much for the help so far, Mike~

Dan, Yes that is what I meant, sorry for the confussion(using master emem to recall ME1 and ME2 and MISC4/which can be a macro to recall ME3). I may have mis-read Mike's post. I was under the assumption that he was calling up an effect on master emem and on that first keyframe wanted to call up a different effect on ME3 so that he had a timeline on master emem and a different timeline that he could run indepently on ME3. sorry for any confusion. greg

Greg, I'm confused... If I've got Macros assigned to Misc 4, and I'm on ME3's Emem panel, & I call up an Emem, how can I attach a Macro to that Emem from ME3? The only way I know how to do it is by using a Master Emem to call up ME3's Emem, and Misc 4 to recall my Macro. Scange, to call up a Macro in a timeline, go to the Macro menu, and in the upper right you can select the macro you want, then hit insert (make sure the Macro level is selected in the Master Emem panel). I don't know what Greg is talking about, I hope he can explain a little more. --- Dan

That is one way to do it, This is the approach I take. What I have done is to keep the emem prefs macro level on it's own (say misc4). That way I don't lose control over the macros.. If i have another effect that doesn't recall ME3 I can still use macros with it. You can enable that macro on the first keyframe of that emem. upon recall of the effect (with your emem level enabled also.... my case it is misc 4) it triggers the macro to run. Hope this helps