Sony 9000 User Manual

  

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Key Setting Operations With the Key Control Block

• When utility 1 bus is selected

Use the following procedure.

In the key control block, press the delegation buttons [M/E1] and [KEY1].

Using the DME channel selection buttons, select the DME channel (DME1 
to DME4) for applying the effect.

The lit colors of the [DME1] to [DME4] buttons indicate the DME 
assignment.
Lit green: Shows the DME assigned to the currently selected key.
Lit amber: Shows the DME assigned to a key other than the currently 

selected key.

Off: DME is not assigned.

To select a DME being used by another keyer
Press [Override], turning it on, then select the DME channel.
The later selection is valid, and the button lights green.

Use the following procedure.

Select the DME for the first channel (see the previous item, “Assigning a 
DME to a key”), then select the successive channel for the second channel. 
For the third channel select the channel after that.

To select the video signal for the second channel, hold down the [UTIL] 
button in the cross-point control block, and select the signal in the Key1 
row (DME external video bus).

To select the video signal for the third channel, hold down the [UTIL] 
button in the cross-point control block, and carry out the following 
operation.

1

Clip

Reference level for 
creating mask signal

+109 to –7

2

Gain

Gain

–100 (shown as 

−

00) to +100