Custom Controls
A custom control is a series of commands, or button
presses, that are recorded together into a single macro.
When you run that custom control, the switcher runs all
the commands and button pressed that were recorded in
the macro. This allows you to simplify complex
sequences of commands into simple button presses. For
example, you can create a custom control that will recall
a camera shot to preview, add a lower third, and then
transition the background and key on-air.
The switcher supports up to 2304 custom controls.
Working With Custom Controls
• ALL+ALL Reset — Including an All+All reset in a
custom control with other events may result in
unexpected results. If you need to have an All+All
reset in a custom control, it should be either the only
or last event in the custom control. Alternatively, you
can perform the All+All and then store that state to
a memory. This allows you to recall that memory as
part of the custom control instead of the All+All.
• Attached CC Ignored — If you include a button in
a custom control that has another custom control
attached to it, the command to run the second custom
control is ignored when the initial custom control is
run. This does not apply to actual custom control
buttons.
• Auto Recall — If you are including a memory recall
in the custom control, you must ensure the Auto
Recall settings are the same as when the memory was
stored. This ensures a consistent output.
• Correct Source — A custom control that selects a
source on an ME will select the correct source when
a different bus map is used, only if the original bus
map still exists on the switcher.
• Bus Maps — A custom control can be used to assign
a different bus map to a bus. Use the Assign Panel
Bus Maps menu (Press HOME > Setup >
Personality > Bus Maps > More > Assign
Maps) to assign a bus map to a bus and record the
event in the custom control.
• Button Presses Only — For non crosspoint buttons,
a custom control only records that a specic button
was pressed, and does not record the state that the
button was in. For example, if you press the TIME
CLOCK button on the Preview Overlay module while
recording a custom control, the custom control will
only record that the button was pressed. If you run
the custom control immediately after recording it,
TIME CLOCK is turned off.
• CC Hold — You can insert a Custom Control Hold
command into a custom control that will hold the
custom control at a specic point until the continue
command is received. The custom control is
continued by either pressing the custom control button
again, or by a GPI Input trigger.
• CC RECORDING — When you are recording a
custom control, the message CC RECORDING is
shown on the Main Menu.
• CC Size — The size of the selected custom control
is shown next to the name, in the Selected eld on
the left of the menu (xx/yy bytes) on the Custom
Control Menu. The rst number (xx) is the size of
the macro, and the second is the size of all the macros
in the selected bank (yy).
• Fader Isn't Recorded — To program a custom
control that will recall a memory and then perform a
transition, you must recall the memory on the ME
you want to perform the transition on, then use the
Cut or Auto Trans buttons to perform the transition.
A custom control cannot record the movement of a
fader.
• Looping CC — You can create a Looping Custom
Control by inserting a Loop CC event into the custom
control.
• Menu Navigation — You can use a custom control
to navigate to a specic menu either by using the Go
To Menu event, or by navigating to the menu when
recording the custom control. Not all menus support
this feature.
• ME Permissions — You can create a custom control
that will affect an ME that is not assigned to your
control panel by creating the custom control on a
control panel that does have the ME assigned to it.
• Pauses Needed — A custom control will not
automatically compensate for the time a memory
recall or transition will require to complete. In these
cases, you must insert a custom control pause after
the event that requires time to complete.
• Recording Source Selections — A custom control
records the specic bus map source that is mapped
to the crosspoint button that is selected, and not the
specic crosspoint button. This allows a custom
control created with one bus map to be run with a
different bus map, as long as the same bus map source
exists in the different bus map.
• Play CC — You can insert a Run Custom Control
command into a custom control that will
automatically run another custom control. If the
Multiple Custom Control feature is active, both
custom controls can run at the same time. If the
Multiple Custom Control feature is turned off,
inserting a Run Custom Control command ends the
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