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FIGURE 21-5
Similarly, delegate buttons on the control surface are lit when active. Multiple selections are performed by
pressing one or more buttons at the same time.
FTB
In one departure from the onscreen user interface functionality, note that FTB (Fade to Black), though
located near the delegates, is not a delegate button – it is an action button. To perform a Fade to Black
operation simply press the FTB button. The fade in/out duration for FTB is derived from the BKGD
transition setting.
Hint: When FTB is displayed on Program Out, it obscures all other Switcher activity. To alert you to this
important fact, the FTB button flashes for several seconds if you should make a new TRANSITION
DELEGATE selection that does not include FTB.
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RANSITION
B
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ONTROL
While the control surface does not have Transition Bins for individual video layers, as the onscreen Live
Desktop does, it does support selection of transitions and control over their attributes.
SELECT
When a single layer, such as BKGD, is selected in the MAIN TRANSITION > DELEGATE group on the control
surface, rotating the SELECT knob cycles the current transitions in the Transition Bin for that layer.
When multiple video layers have been delegated, turning SELECT affects the transitions for all layers as
follows:
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When all delegated layers are currently on the same transition bin 'slot', the selection in the
corresponding transition bins simply cycles left or right synchronously.
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Otherwise (when the Transition Bin slots for multi-delegated layers are not harmonized), rotating the
knob moves the selection layer by layer as the knob turns until the selected slots are aligned.
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From that point, continuing to twist SELECT moves the transition selection in lock step.
The SELECT knob also acts as a push button:
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Push SELECT to toggle the Reverse setting for the BKGD transition.
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Push SHIFT + SELECT to toggle the Ping Pong switch for the BKGD transition.