Panasonic Mixing Automation Expansion Software Users Guide

GRAPHICEDITING OFFADERMOVES
Redrawing Fader Moves: Auto Nulling Feature
When the pointer is anywhere within the horizontal region where channel
moves are displayed, a small circle appears on the fader curve. The circle
“rides” the channel’s level.
When you move the pointer horizontally, this circle traces the top of the fader
curve.
When you click the mouse, the circle becomes a crosshair, and you can begin
drawing a fader move. While drawing the fader move, the arrow pointer goes
away.
This special...

Moving Fader Moves with the Hand Tool
You can move a selected region of a fader move to an earlier or later time.
First, select a region by Command clicking and dragging on a fader move.
Then, positioning the pointer over the middle of the selected region changes
the pointer into a Hand Tool. The Hand is used to drag the selected region of
a fader move to make it start and end earlier or later, without changing its
duration.
Drawing Free Hand vs Constrained with Option and Shift. 
Normally, fader drawing...

Copying and Pasting Fader Moves
You can copy and paste a selected region of a fader move to an earlier or later
time, and/or to a different channel.
First, select a region by Command clicking and dragging on a fader move.
Then Copy the move (Command C.)
Then position the pointer to the position where you want to paste the move,
either on the same channel, or on a different channel.
Command Click to produce a flashing I-beam.
Then Paste (Command V) the region.
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MAX Graphic View 

GRAPHICEDITING OF ACHANNELON/OFF
Moving Channel On/Off with the Hand Tool
To move a Channel On/Off, move the mouse pointer over the Channel On/Off
bar, anywhere other than the ends. 
The pointer becomes a Hand tool. The Hand is used to drag the whole move. 
This makes the Channel On/Off start and end earlier or later, without
changing its duration.
Lengthening or Shortening Channel On/Offs with the Finger
Tool
To lengthen or shorten a Channel On/Off, move the pointer over either the
very Start or End of...

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Chapter 11
MAX OFFLINEOPERATION
CUELISTEDITINGINTRODUCTION
MAX’s Cue List allows very extensive and precise “Off Line” mix editing. The
term Off Line is used, as opposed to Real Time, because the time code does
not have to be present in order to make these edits.
Automation events that have been written in Real Time are displayed
numerically on the Cue List. Individual fader moves and channel on/offs,
library events, EQ, pan, aux sends and inserts, dynamics and masters, may be
added, deleted, copied,...

THECUELIST AND ASINGLEFADERMOVE
Before working with the Cue List for the first time, do the following: Start
with a new clear mix, either select Clear from the Edit Menu, or select New
from the File menu to open a new Untitled mix.
Start the time code, put a fader into WRITE mode.
(In brief, Open the Overwrite dialogue box and select Faders, then set Edit
Mode menu to Write, and then select the Fader with the SEL button.) Move
the fader a little in one direction, and then stop the time code.
Open the Cue...

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MAX Off Line Operation 
If you have chosen (in the Preferences dialogue box) not to work in dB, the
range of faders will be displayed as number from 0 to 255.
The Start Level is where the fader was as you began to move it. 
The End level is where it was at the end of the move.
The “Events =” is the number of small “sub events” that comprise the fader
move and represent small level changes with respect to frames.
Channel On/Off 
If you turn a channel on or off, it is indicated here.
End Time 
The time...

CLIPBOARDEDITING
You can already start editing in the Cue List using standard Macintosh
clipboard-style editing. 
SELECTINGEVENTS
Clickto select (highlight) the event.
Shift-clickto select multiple sequential events. 
The selection range will be from the first event selected, up to and including
the event that is shift-clicked on.
Command-clickto pick off discontiguous events.
Type Command A to select all events.
DE-SELECTINGEVENTS
When multiple events are already selected:
Click on any event to select...

Clear 
Deletes selected events from the Cue List. 
Used to remove any event from the mix.
Copy 
Copies selected events to the Clipboard. 
Performed prior to Paste.
Cut 
Deletes selected events from Cue List, and Copies selected events to
Clipboard. Performed prior to Paste.
Paste 
Pastes contents of Clipboard. 
If no event is currently selected, the events in the Clipboard are pasted into
the Cue List preserving their original times. 
For example, you may copy the fader moves from the first chorus of a...

Paste Special... 
Opens the Paste Special dialogue box. Permits you to paste the Clipboard
with a manually entered offset of the time, channel, and level.
As an example, say you have channel 3 turn on at a certain time.
You want channel 4 to turn on at the exact same time.
Select the channel off event on channel 3. Copy. 
Select Paste Special...
Check Channel, + 1, Click OK. Observe the results. 
Select the Custom View window, play the program material or other source of
time code, and notice that...