[quote="mario3478"]Trying to hook up Pinnacle Thunder to Sony MVS 8000, is it the same basic setup? I will be using Pbus since i hear that VDCP on Pinnacle is unreliable.[/quote] Mario, If you need info on the Thunder side of PBUS setup, let me know. I should have some screenshot grabs of the Thunder PBUS menu when I used to use a thunder w/ PBUS. Curt

[quote="mario3478"]Trying to hook up Pinnacle Thunder to Sony MVS 8000, is it the same basic setup? I will be using Pbus since i hear that VDCP on Pinnacle is unreliable.[/quote] You don't need a Lance with Thunder, Just any Thunder serial port to the port that you are using P-bus on, or have engineering make a Y cable. There is some protocol setup in Thunder including setting the P-bus address, would make a different one for each channel. A small window runs at the bottom of Thunder program with the protocol running all the time.

I've used a Thunder with a Kahuna using VDCP with no problems. They were directly connected without a Lance or DNF. I have not used a Thunder with a Sony yet. Irv

Trying to hook up Pinnacle Thunder to Sony MVS 8000, is it the same basic setup? I will be using Pbus since i hear that VDCP on Pinnacle is unreliable.

First, use menu page 7325 & set up P-Bus to be controlled via timelines. In the DCU/Serial Port Assign menu (7355), set up the machines that will be controlled via the LANCE to be PBUS devices by assigning the appropriate serial ports & setting the desired PBus addresses. Make sure that you have the BUS level assigned to a level button (menu 7321.7) In the DEV menu (5321), go to the PBUS device number that you want to control (0-23). Assign an action (Store, Recall, or a Trigger [0=play if the LANCE is set to SONY...if it's set to GVG mode, then 1=play]) & INSERT this as a keyframe. Note that a trigger or a recall can be attached to ANY keyframe, so you can do a PBUS recall of a clip in the middle of your timeline. There is a sub-menu called REWIND ACTION. On a SONY, recalling an effect or hitting Rewind actually calls up Keyframe 0, not Keyframe 1 - KF 1 immediately happens as you RUN the effect. So if you wanted to recall a clip & play it, you'd put a playback trigger as KF 1, then set up the REWIND ACTION to recall the clip. In this way, you only need 1 KF to do a recall & play of a clip. If you want the current switcher effect to send out the traditional GV-style "LEARN" command, you can use the DIRECT STORE sub-menu...enter the LANCE effect register number here & the switcher will effectively attach that clip to the current effect. If you're using macros to do recalls and/or triggers, you can build menu macros that call up recalls & triggers & use the TEST FIRE button. Just remember that each step of a menu macro takes about 15 frames.