Panel Control and Menus 2 Chapter

Interpreting the Menu Screen

The menu screen consists of the following principal parts.

When buttons on the screen are lit or represented in a depressed state, this indicates that the corresponding item or function is selected (set on).

aMenu title button

This shows the title of the menu screen. You can set different colors for the main menu site and subsidiary menu site (see page 335).

bMenu page number button

This shows the menu screen page number. When you press this button, the top menu window (see page 332) appears. You can enter the page number for the desired menu, or press one of the top menu selection buttons in the window, to display that menu.

While the system is accessing the hard disk, the indicator lights red.

Indicator for frame memory external hard disk

Indicator for internal hard disk

Note

When the indicator is lit, do not power off

the switcher, or disconnect the IEEE1394 cable 1).

1) When an external hard disk drive is connected

cVF buttons

These indicate the larger subdivisions of this menu.

Depending on the selected item, the menu screen contents including the HF button indications change.

dHF buttons

These indicate the items within the menu. Depending on the selected item, the menu indications change.

Depending on the function, if any one is on, the status is shown by an orange bar, as in the following figure.

eStatus area

This shows the status of the settings items controlled by the selected menu.

An orange frame appears around the parameter area relating to the displayed menu. For each of the twelve areas, pressing the display jumps to the related menu.

fFunction button area

This shows the functions which can be operated in the currently selected menu by means of buttons.

Each function button corresponds to a function which can be set in the currently selected menu. Press it to enable the function, to display a parameter group and adjust the parameters with the knobs, or to execute the function.

These buttons are in groups by function. In the screen example shown on the previous page, the [Key Bus] and [Matte] function buttons constitute the <Key Fill> group.

gParameter group button

This displays parameter group names for which the knobs can make adjustments, the current parameter setting page number, and

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