Lance Design TDC-100B, Preliminary Installation And Operation Manual

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Lance Design TDC-100B is designed to provide control of multiple channels of
video disk recorder(s) or other devices via P-Bus II interface to Grass Valley Group,
Sony, or other production switchers.
This combination allows the user to do the following:
1) Mark playback inpoints when learning an emem effect on the switcher.
2) Recall (cue) the playback device to these cues when effects are recalled.
3) Trigger (roll) the playback device in response to an emem timeline run, loop, or
other trigger.
In addition to these functions which are driven from the production switcher, the
control panel provides full manual control of the devices, providing normal shuttle,
jog, variable play, record, cue, and other commands.
CONTROL PANEL DESCRIPTION
The TDC-100B control panel provides the following controls (left to right on the
panel):
 Numeric Keypad - for entry of numeric data, register numbers, timecodes, etc.
 Plus and Minus Keys - for timecode arithmetic, and for use as up/down keys for
scrolling through the menu items.
 FCN Key - for selecting alternate functions of some keys. Press and release the
FCN key, then press the key whose alternate function you want.

SET Key - operates like an ‘equals’ or ‘enter’ key. To enter a timecode number
from the keypad, for example, you would key in the time, press SET, and press
MARK IN. The SET key tells the controller to use the keypad time instead of
marking from the current disk position
 TM Key - used for displaying durations of registers (outpoint minus inpoint). If
you have both an inpoint and outpoint set, pressing TM will show you the duration
between them. This key is also used to enter time values into the timer or timecode
generator of the controlled device, if this capability is supported.
 CLR Key - Clear function. Clears numeric entry and other modes. Functions
somewhat like a ‘cancel’ or ‘escape’ key. Also used to clear registers - see below.