Accom ASWR8150, Technical Manual

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HINT: It is often helpful, especially when recording long
macros, to create a script to follow, since you cannot edit
macros after recording them.
STEP 3: If the User Keys & MISC submenu is still active, press the Stop
softkey to complete the macro recording. If another menu is
active, you can press the
F1
,
F2
, or
F3
button (whichever is
the current macro) to stop recording. The list box in the
middle of the menu lists the recorded button presses. You can
now run the recorded macro by pressing the appropriate
function button.
Note that the User Keys only recall button presses, not necessarily the
functions selected by those button presses. For example, if you want to
turn on both the Safe Area and Safe Title displays in the preview output,
you press the
Safe Area
softkey three times. However, if you record a
macro that does this, it does not remember the original setting; it only
remembers that you pressed the
Safe Area softkey three times. If it is set
to something other than
Off
, it toggles three times and end up at
whatever setting appears after three presses. This feature is useful for
recording a macro that toggles a parameter setting with each press of the
function button.
To record a macro that selects the same setting for a function every time,
you can start the recording by pressing and holding
CLEAR
and
pressing the softkey. This sets that function to its default state, and you
can then toggle the softkey to the desired setting. Now when you run
the macro, it first sets the parameter to a known setting (default), then
toggles to the correct setting.
After recording the macro, you can use the Input List pushknob to scroll
through the list of macro steps (button presses).
Auto Menus
Toggling this softkey to On sets the menus to automatically come up
when you press these transition select and delegation buttons: Off is the
default.
Pressing KEY 1 recalls the Keyer 1 menu.
Pressing KEY 2 recalls the Keyer 2 menu.
Pressing DSK recalls the DSK Keyer menu.
Pressing WIPE recalls the M/E Wipes menu if the M/E buses are
active, or recalls the Program/Preset Wipe menu if the PGM/PST
buses are active.
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