Sony 8000SF User Manual

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External Devices

   

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In this system, you can operate while controlling the following types of 
external device:
• Devices supporting P-Bus (Peripheral II protocol) (referred to as “P-Bus 

devices” in the manual)

• Devices supporting GPI
• VTRs
• Disk recorder (Sony disk 9-pin protocol and video disk communications 

protocol)

• Extended VTR (Abekas A53 protocol)

The following is an outline of external device control.

There are 99 registers, numbered 1 to 99, holding external device control data 
as keyframe data.
The following are the keyframe functions that can be used.
• RECALL (1-99), STORE (1-99), RECALL UNDO, STORE UNDO, empty 

register search, AUTO SAVE, RECALL MODE (RECALL, RECALL & 
REWIND)

• EDIT ENABLE, EDIT UNDO
• CONST DUR, EFF DUR, KF DUR, DELAY, PAUSE, INSERT BEFORE, 

INSERT AFTER, MODIFY, DELETE, COPY, PASTE BEFORE, PASTE 
AFTER, FROM TO, ALL

• PREV KF, NEXT KF, GOTO TC, GOTO KF, RUN, REWIND, FF, STOP 

NEXT KF, NORMAL, JOG, KF FADER

Actions set in a keyframe are executed only when the keyframe effect is 
executed in the normal direction. Take care when executing simultaneously 
with a switcher or DME keyframe effect, since the actions are not executed in 
the reverse direction.