External Devices

In this system, you can operate while controlling the following types of external device:

•Devices supporting P-Bus (Peripheral II protocol) (referred to as “P-Bus devices” in the manual)

•Devices supporting GPI

•VTRs

•Disk recorder (Sony disk 9-pin protocol and video disk communications protocol)

•Extended VTR (Abekas A53 protocol)

The following is an outline of external device control.

For external device control operations, see Chapter 12 “External Devices” (Volume 2).

For details on the devices that can be connected, consult your Sony representative.

Shared Functions for External Device Control

Keyframe functions

There are 99 registers, numbered 1 to 99, holding external device control data as keyframe data.

The following are the keyframe functions that can be used.

•RECALL (1-99), STORE (1-99), RECALL UNDO, STORE UNDO, empty register search, AUTO SAVE, RECALL MODE (RECALL, RECALL &

REWIND)

•EDIT ENABLE, EDIT UNDO

•CONST DUR, EFF DUR, KF DUR, DELAY, PAUSE, INSERT BEFORE, INSERT AFTER, MODIFY, DELETE, COPY, PASTE BEFORE, PASTE AFTER, FROM TO, ALL

•PREV KF, NEXT KF, GOTO TC, GOTO KF, RUN, REWIND, FF, STOP NEXT KF, NORMAL, JOG, KF FADER

Note

Actions set in a keyframe are executed only when the keyframe effect is executed in the normal direction. Take care when executing simultaneously with a switcher or DME keyframe effect, since the actions are not executed in the reverse direction.

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