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 feature allows you to freely draw new fader moves without
worrying about introducing accidental jumps in level. The pointer doesn’t
even have to be lined up with the previously written curve. Clicking the
mouse always makes the crosshair automatically start drawing from the level
of the previously written curve.
This is a graphic version of auto nulling. Fader moves can be drawn and re-
drawn freely at any time, the MAX software automatically takes care of lining
up the levels of the new moves with the level of the previously written moves.
Smoothing Fader Moves: Auto Smoothing Feature
As fader moves are drawn, the software smoothes out any small irregularities. 
It does this automatically when you release the mouse. 
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							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 is “free hand”, you can draw in any direction with the
crosshair.
To constrain the crosshair, hold the Control key to set an anchor point.
Continue holding the Control Key and move the mouse, but do not click it.
This allows you to draw a straight line in any direction. Click once for the end
point of the line.
To further constrain the crosshair, hold both the Shift and Control keys to set
an anchor point.
Continue holding Shift and Control and move the mouse, but do not click it.
This allows you to draw a straight line constrained to multiples of 90°. Click
once for the end point of the line.
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							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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							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 the Channel On/Off bar. 
The ends of the bar have shaded handles for changing their length.
Positioning the pointer over the very start or end of a Channel On/Off changes
the pointer into a Finger. 
The Finger is used to drag the start and end handles of a Channel On/Off,
making it shorter or longer in duration.
Splitting Channel On/Offs with the Scissors Tool
To Split a Channel On/Off into two separate moves, position the pointer over
the Channel On/Off bar and Option Click. 
Option clicking changes the pointer into a Scissors Tool. 
The Scissors Tool splits the Channel On/Off into two or more separate events.
New shaded handles appear for each split.
These new individual Channel On/Offs may then be moved, lengthened or
shortened as described above.
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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, pasted and modified. Whole mixes or sections of a
mix can also be manipulated in a similar manner. A whole Cue List can be
constructed entirely Off Line, for precision applications such as timed fades
for post production.
It is strongly recommended that you first familiarize yourself with various Cue
List operations before attempting to apply these operations to a real mix.
Though all operations are “un-do-able”, you should Save frequently under
different file names so that you always have the option, (in the event that
confusion develops) of retracing your steps back to a working version of the
mix.
It is important that you verify your Frame Rate selection (Edit menu,
Preferences, Time Code) so that any moves that you create Off Line will have
real frame numbers. For example, suppose you are working with film at 24
frames per second. Setting the Frame Rate to 24 frames per second will make
sure that you do not accidentally create events in the Cue List that happen
during frames 25 through 29, which do not exist in 24 frames per second.
ABOUT THEOFFLINEMENU
The Off Line Menu relates mainly to the Cue List. Most of the items in this
menu are for opening dialogues that allow you to create automation events in
the Cue List. When the Cue List is not opened, most of the items in this menu
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							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 List by typing Command-0. 
In the Cue List you should see at least two events. 
The first event is a Snapshot, which will be discussed later. The second event
is the fader move that you just made. 
Look at the detailed information about the fader move:
Start Time 
When you started to write the fader move.
Event 
What you did, in this case, “Fader Move”. If you have previously named your
tracks using the Names and Labels dialogue box, the name appears here. 
Channel
This is the channel number of the fader move.
Fader Level 
The range of the fader level is from -°dB to + 10 dB.
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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 that you stopped writing the fader move.
Note: When inserting an event, for instance Fader moves and Channel
On/Offs, right after the Snapshot Events, you need to take a space of 3
seconds to enter the new event. Sending Snapshot to the DA7 mixer
will take time.
SCROLLING THECUELIST
A mix will usually have so many events that they can not be displayed within
the size of the window. Click in the scroll bar on the right of the Cue List to
reveal more of the mix.
As the Cue List is scrolled, a small time-code pop-up window appears at the
top right of the Cue List Window. This special feature allows you to quickly
locate the time of the mix that you want to edit.
Clicking on the arrows at the end of the scroll bar shifts the display about 1
event line at a time. 
Clicking in the region above or below the scroll box shifts the display by
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							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 it and de-select the other events.
Command-click to de-select any single event.
To de-select all events, click in any blank area of the Cue List, such as the gray
area to the left of the “equals” button.
Once events are selected, use the Edit menu to 
Clear, Cut, Copy, Paste, or Replace the events.
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							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 mix.
Open a new mix, and paste into the new mix an exact copy of the fader moves
from the first chorus of the mix.
If any events are currently selected, the time of the first event selected is used
as an offset time. Events in the Clipboard are pasted into the Cue List with an
offset applied. 
For example, you may copy the first chorus of a mix, and paste in an exact
copy of the first chorus of the mix into the second chorus of the mix.
Replace 
Deletes currently selected events and pastes contents of clipboard.
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							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 channels 3 and 4 turn on at exactly the same time.
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