Modifying Wipes, Accessing the Aux Buses

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•creating a Split Key, refer to the section “Split Keys” on page 32.

Modifying Wipes

Wipes can be modified to give more distinct qualities and personalize your transitions. The following effects can be adjusted:

•Time, Direction

•Pattern, Horizontal Multiplication, Vertical Multiplication

•X-Position, Y-Position, Aspect Ratio

•Border, Color, Soft

•Hue, Saturation, Luminosity

•Rotation

To modify time and direction:

1.Press WIPE to display the Wipe menu.

2.Press NEXT until Time is displayed.

3.Use the Time knob to change the duration of the wipe.

4.Use the Direction knob to set the direction of the wipe. You can choose from the following:

•Fwd — Wipe runs in the forward (default) direction.

•Rev — Wipe runs in the reverse direction.

5.Press the Direction knob to alternately enable and disable the flip-flop direction feature. You can choose from the following:

•Enabled (FF) — The first time a wipe transition is performed, it runs in the forward direction. Performing a second wipe transition runs in the reverse direction.

•Disabled — Wipes always run in the direction specified in step 4 above.

To change other wipe modifiers:

1.Press WIPE to access the Wipe menu.

2.Press NEXT to cycle through the available wipe modifiers.

3.Use the corresponding knob to change the following:

•Pattern (Pattrn) — to find and select a desired pattern.

•X Pos or Y Pos — to position the wipe pattern.

•Aspect — to adjust the aspect ratio.

•Border Size (Border) — to adjust the size of the border.

•Image Softness (Soft) — to blur or harden the border.

•Border color (these options only appear if you set the Border Size greater than 0.0%)

›Use the Load knob to select a preset color. Press the Load knob to load the color.

›Use the BHue, BSat, and BLum knobs until the desired color is achieved.

•Rotation (Rot) — to rotate the pattern.

•Horizontal (HMult) and Vertical (VMult) Multiplication — to create multiple instances of the pattern.

Note:

•You can select a pattern using the Pattern Buttons. This also displays the Wipe menu.

•The X Pos and Y Pos can be adjusted using the positioner (KM-H 3000 only).

•Aspect adjustments are not available for all patterns.

•Circle, left square, right square, and diagonal patterns with aspect adjustments can not be rotated.

Aux Buses

The switcher has three timed Aux buses which have access to the following sources:

•Any primary source (including Media-Store)

•Program

•Clean Feed

•Preview

•Chroma Key Alpha

Accessing the Aux Buses

KM-H3000: The Aux buses can be accessed from control panel buttons.

KM-H2500: The Aux buses can be accessed through the menu system.

KM-H2500, KM-H2500U, KM-H3000U, KM-H2500E, KM-H3000E specifications

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