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Kayenne/Karrera/GV Korona
User Manual
About Reusing Effects
E-MEM effects can be built and saved for use later. It is important to realize that the GV
Switcher system operating environment affects how an effect will load and run. Just
recalling a particular effect without considering the environment within which it runs does
not guarantee that effect will look the same as when built. When the GV Switcher system
environment for an effect is compatible, however, the look of the effect should be exactly
the same every time.
One of the most important aspects of the GV Switcher environment to consider when
reusing effects is Suite Preferences. In particular, the Source Patching and E-MEM Prefs must
be compatible. Other Suite Prefs control the behavior of the switcher, but do not affect
E-MEM compatibility.
Source patching is the mechanism to sort out facility specific differences in sources.
Loading a Suite Prefs file with preexisting Source Patch settings will not necessarily allow an
effect to run as designed. The sources must be patched to compensate for different
physical source definitions in each facility. For example, the replay VTR may be engineering
source 12 in one truck and engineering source 27 in another. If the effect was built to
expect the replay VTR on Logical source 12, then logical source 12 must be patched to
source 27 in the other truck. Once all the re-patching is completed, effects saved from the
first truck will call up the correct sources.
E-MEM Prefs control which E-MEM levels will control specific components of the switcher.
For example, if Image Store Channel 2 is assigned to the IS A group in one facility and to
Misc 7 in another, the effect may not include Channel 2 if Misc 7 is not included in the
original effect. Mapping M/E partition boundary and secondary partitions is also critical to
effect recall and run since it determines which M/E E-MEM panel (or Master E-MEM enable
group) controls M/E partitioning.
The simplest way to guarantee Suite Pref settings are compatible is to save them when the
effects are built, and reload them when you want to run those effects at a later time, making
only the necessary modifications (like those for Source Patching described above). One
common method is to save all the effects along with the Suite Pref and User Pref files for a
particular show together on a USB Memory Stick, and then reload them all the next time
you work on that show. Note that User Prefs settings will not change how an effect runs, but
will reproduce the control surface as it was when the effect was built so, for example, all the
source buttons are arranged exactly where you want them.
Other GV Switcher environment variables to consider for successful reuse of effects are
listed below.
• All the external devices required are available for use (Profile VDRs, GVEous, PBus
devices, GPI outputs, etc.).
• Correct clips loaded on the Profile or other DDRs.
• Correct stills cached on the GV Switcher Image Store.
• If operating in Multi Suite mode, the suites should be setup for effect sharing by
properly acquiring logical devices in each suite. Also sufficient resources need to be
available in the suite. If resources are not acquired, those portions of the effect will be
silently ignored. If resources are acquired after loading effects, the effects will need to
be reloaded.