Chapter 5 Basic Operations
50 Selecting Video
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 cross-
point 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.
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
Press a button in the background A row to select the background video
before the transition.
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
connectors
a)
Cross-point buttons other than the above
1 2
1 2
1 M/E panel1.5 M/E panel