
5.2.3 Using Eagle Automation
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Eagle Automation is provided with comprehensive on-line help features. The Help
system follows standard Windows 95 help system conventions.
The following sections are excerpts from Eagle Help, which can be viewed by
clicking the Question Mark button on the Eagle Toolbar. The topics included here
are intended as a preview of the features and windows of Eagle Automation.
Words that are underlined in this document are links. When in Eagle Help, clicking a
link will take you directly to that topic.
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To begin using Eagle you must first set it for the timecode rate that you will be
feeding into the console. Click on the triangle button in the Timecode box and
select “Options” on the pulldown menu that appears. The “Timecode Options”
dialog box will appear. Set the incoming Timecode rate in the pulldown box at the
top of the window. Click on “OK” to accept the new settings. This action sets both
Eagle and the Status console to the same timecode rate. You do not need to set
the console Timecode Reader separately.
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To view and edit mixes off-line, Eagle can be used without a console connected,
however you will not be able to write dynamic fader data, run timecode, or control
switches or faders on the Console screen. Just install Eagle on the PC you wish to
use, without performing the Console Preference settings.
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You can create mixes using the Fader or Switch Mix Edit screens to set fader
values and switch states over a specific time range.
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If you have Diskmix also installed on the same PC and need to revert to Diskmix
automation, restart the PC in MS-DOS mode before running DMS, and reboot the
console with your normal console boot disk. Diskmix will not run properly in a
Win95 MS-DOS window.
Diskmix mixes may be loaded into Eagle Automation, converting the mix into an
Eagle file. To load Diskmix mixes, change to the Data-dm directory at the C: root
level, then change the File type to “
*.*
” to view Diskmix mix files. You may load
any mix file ending in a 3-digit number. “
Nts
” and “
cue
” file types cannot be
loaded. You should save the new Eagle mix into the default Eagle mix directory
“
mixes
”.
STATUS 18R
Operation and Maintenance Manual
Section 5 - Eagle Automation
August 1999
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