Sony MKS-2017 User Manual

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Selecting Video

To execute a background video transition, you need to prepare by selecting the 
background video before and after the transition on the M/E cross-point control 
block.

When using the 1.5 M/E panel or 1.5 M/E wide panel
Program video (final output video) is created with the background video 
selected on the PGM/PST cross-point control block.

Select the background video displayed before the transition with the buttons in 
the background A row. Select the background video displayed after the 
transition with the buttons in the background B row.
The following table shows the correspondences between selectable signals and 
the cross-point buttons used to select them in the factory default configuration.

a) IN1 to IN16 when using the 1.5 M/E wide panel.

Assignments of signals to cross-point buttons can be freely changed using the 
Xpt Assign menu (see page 158).

To select video, proceed as follows.

Press a button in the background A row to select the background video 
before the transition.

Internally generated black signal

BLACK (left edge) 

Internally generated color matte signal

COLOR BKGD (right edge)

Signals input to processor IN1 to IN8 
connectors

 a)

Cross-point buttons other than the above

1 M/E panel

1.5 M/E panel