[quote="greg"]Bob and Bill thanks for the info, I already see a great use for these. One other thing (I believe I already know the answer to this) The next macros will wait for the previous to end, correct?[/quote] Do you mean when playing a few of them back to record into one larger macro? I would think if you had a long macro playing and called up another one, it may overide what you had playing, although not sure. Unless your macro had a bunch of delays and such that made the macro last like 10 seconds or something not sure this would be a problem. You could have a macro with 40 commands in it, if there are no delays they are going to all pretty much happen instantly. If you do have a long macro just wait till it is finished before playing the next one, as long as you don't add a long delay it will record and play it back like you did it all at once. Bill

Bob and Bill thanks for the info, I already see a great use for these. One other thing (I believe I already know the answer to this) The next macros will wait for the previous to end, correct?

Thank for all your responses. Guess I'll have to write down what I do next time.

[quote="greg"][quote="Bill D"]I know of no way to view or edit existing macros on the Kalypso/Zodiak. You can append them, (adding on to them I guess, never tried this). Depending on what you need to do this may help. Also in the future if you have complicated macros, try breaking them down and build a bunch of smaller one's. Then you can play them back to make one large macro. Then you can just save the original smaller one's to disk, and if you ever have to modify anything this could help you I would think.[/quote] Bill, Is this done buy putting the attachments into your new macro build or do you have to use a timeline. greg[/quote] That is what I meant Bob.. thanks :) What I did for a show not a huge macro but it made it easier to do it in steps. I created 3 macros. One of them put a DDR source on a key bus, another went into menu to select chroma key, another punched in #'s for a green chroma key in the keyer menu. Anyway, I put those 3 macros into like macro 1-3 on the macro delegated key bus. I then went into macro menu made a new macro by hitting record in the menu, sure you can use the panel as well. I then hit the button for each of those macros, basically playing each one back, I may have put a few delay's in there somewhere. That new macro was the macro that was recalled at the top of the emem for every transition I did. Then when I added purple chroma key (celtics and other green logo teams). I built a macro that typed in the numbers for the purple chroma key, and then used the other two shorter macros in conjunction with that new one to create another main macro that was recalled when I called up transitions that needed to key purple. Those smaller macros I had room within the 99 to bury somewhere. I just moved them to the panel when I needed to use them to build something else. hope that makes sense.. :) later Bill

Greg - I think that what Bill's talking about is that rather than build a 50-step macro where one problem within those 50 steps means a complete rebuild is to build small macros...maybe 3 to 5 steps apiece. If you built 10 macros with 5 steps apiece, you'd LEARN Macro 11 (for example), and then just start pressing the Macro 1-10 buttons...their information would be copied into Macro #11 in the order that you press the macro buttons. Or if you already have a Macro 11, you could use the APPEND mode (which causes any further button presses...including those of other macro buttons to be added at the END of the recording macro). By building smaller macros & chaining them together into one larger macro, if there are any errors in any of the steps of the final macro, it's a fairly easy task to fix the one bad small macro, and then rebuild the large macro by re-chaining the smaller macros again rather than build everything from scratch.

[quote="Bill D"]I know of no way to view or edit existing macros on the Kalypso/Zodiak. You can append them, (adding on to them I guess, never tried this). Depending on what you need to do this may help. Also in the future if you have complicated macros, try breaking them down and build a bunch of smaller one's. Then you can play them back to make one large macro. Then you can just save the original smaller one's to disk, and if you ever have to modify anything this could help you I would think.[/quote] Bill, Is this done buy putting the attachments into your new macro build or do you have to use a timeline. greg

Sorry, but Kalypsos & Zodiaks do not have a way of going into the macros to view the steps, like the DD-series switchers (which includes Kayak) and SONY switchers do. A viewer or editor were never designed into the GV software.

I know of no way to view or edit existing macros on the Kalypso/Zodiak. You can append them, (adding on to them I guess, never tried this). Depending on what you need to do this may help. Also in the future if you have complicated macros, try breaking them down and build a bunch of smaller one's. Then you can play them back to make one large macro. Then you can just save the original smaller one's to disk, and if you ever have to modify anything this could help you I would think. Bill