GRASS VALLEY zodiak, User Manual

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Daily Setups Menus
Plan out the sources you will use for a show, even ones that may not exist
on the system where you are creating the effects. Build a list of Logical
sources in the Source Patch menu without regard to the currently associ-
ated Engineering sources. After the list is built, map one of the facility’s
existing Engineering sources to each Logical source. If physical devices
don't exist for some planned sources, substitute a dummy Engineering
source. You can then build your effects and verify that they run properly.
When you are satisfied with the effects, save the Suite Prefs and E-MEM
effects you created to Zip disk. At the new facility, load these files into that
Zodiak system. Do not load the Eng Setups of one facility into the other, as
this will overwrite that facility’s existing Engineering configuration.
Once the Suite Prefs and effects are loaded at the new facility, go to the
Source Patch menu and map the appropriate Engineering sources of the
new facility to the original list of Logical sources. Your effects should now
run as previously designed without having to edit or rebuild them. When
satisfied the effects run correctly at the new facility, save that Suite Prefs
under a different name for use the next time you use this facility. Do not
overwrite the original Suite Prefs, as you will need it when you return to
the original facility.