Operations Basic 5 Chapter

Selecting Video in the M/E Cross-Point Control Block

To execute a background video transition, you need to prepare by selecting the background video before and after the transition on the M/E cross-point control block.

When using the 1.5 M/E panel or 1.5 M/E wide panel

Program video (final output video) is created with the background video selected on the PGM/PST cross-point control block.

See the next section “Selecting Video in the PGM/PST Cross-Point Control Block” for more information about how to select video on the PGM/PST crosspoint control block.

Select the background video displayed before the transition with the buttons in the background A row. Select the background video displayed after the transition with the buttons in the background B row.

The following table shows the correspondences between selectable signals and the cross-point buttons used to select them in the factory default configuration.

Selectable signal

Cross-point button used to select

 

signal

 

 

Internally generated black signal

BLACK (left edge)

 

 

Internally generated color matte signal

COLOR BKGD (right edge)

 

 

Signals input to processor IN1 to IN8

Cross-point buttons other than the above

connectors a)

 

a) IN1 to IN16 when using the 1.5 M/E wide panel.

Assignments of signals to cross-point buttons can be freely changed using the

Xpt Assign menu (see page 158).

To select video, proceed as follows.

1

2

1

2

 

1.5 M/E panel

 

1 M/E panel

1 Press a button in the background A row to select the background video before the transition.

50 Selecting Video