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Broadcast Pix
V5
Join the Show
Whenever a panel is not connected to a workstation, it continuously attempts
reconnection. If successful, the Join the Show button changes from green to orange.
Pressing this button when it is orange, immediately connects to the current running
show on the workstation.
Pressing this button when it is green, causes the panel to reboot itself. This can be
useful to recover from an unusual condition.
Fail-Safe
By selecting this option the operator commands the panel to control the Router directly
using the serial connection. The program and preview rows of buttons are activated,
and the program row PixButtons are labeled appropriately. Inputs 1 through 16/32 are
labeled 1 through 16/32, indicating the input channels of the Router. The Show Prog.
and Show Prev. are labeled on inputs indicating their use as the connections from the
Broadcast Pix workstation running the current show. The Cut button is also illuminated,
indicating that it can be used to perform cuts between program and preview.
When entering the Fail-Safe mode, program and preview are automatically connected
to the input that the most recently run show defined as the fail-safe source. If no source
was so identified, then program is set to Show Prog. and preview is set to Show Prev.
For this fall back mode of operation to work most effectively, be sure that the video
source connected to fail-safe source is the one that you want to go on air when Fail-
safe mode is entered.
Three other PixButtons are illuminated while in fail-safe mode. These are the Join The
Show, the Setup & Test and Turn Off Sleep PixButtons. These allow selection of these
three modes, as described in the next page.
When in Fail-Safe mode, if the operator wants to switch back to the show running on
the workstation, first check on the state of the workstation by calling up on preview the
workstation’s program output by selecting
[Show Prog.]
on preview. If it looks good, a
seamless reconnection to the show can be achieved by first selecting
[Show Prog.]
on
the program row (or the [Cut] button) before pressing the
[Join The Show]
button.
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