Panasonic Mixing Automation Expansion Software Users Guide

							Paste Special, Absolute (=) or Offsets (+/-)
MAX lets you work either in absolute values or offset values. 
In the previous example, you entered an “offset” of “+1”. 
(Channel 3+1= Channel 4)
You could have obtained the same result by clicking on “=” and typing a “4”. 
When applications call for editing in terms of absolute values, click on the
equals sign. For example, when you need to Paste Special at a specific time,
that is, “This move must happen at one hour.”
When applications call for editing in terms of offsets, click on the plus or
minus sign. For example, “This move must happen one frame later.”
EDITBAR
At the top of the Cue List is the Edit Bar.
The Edit Bar contains tool icons and edit fields.
The buttons and icons feature “hot help”, automatic pop-up descriptions of
their function.
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EDITFIELDS
When you select an event in the Cue List, its parameters are transferred into
the edit fields in the Edit Bar. Events may then be edited by typing in new
values in the edit fields.
When more than one event has been selected, parameters held in common
appear in the edit fields. Parameters with differing values are blanked.
Example of a single fader move selected.
Example of a fader move and a channel on selected.
Example of two fader moves and a channel on selected. 
						

							More About the Edit Fields
When an event is selected in the Cue List, its parameters appear in the Edit
Fields. A cursor automatically appears on the first digit of the time.
To edit a time, type the time in the time field. 
Numbers are entered from left to right. 
Click or use the arrow keys to move around to different digits within any
number field. 
Type Delete to backspace over an entry.
Re-type to correct an entry.
Pressing Enter applies the edit. 
The Cue List is re-drawn with the edited values.
Tabbing also applies the edit, and moves the cursor to the next Edit Field. 
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FADERTOOLS
The four icons at the top left of the Edit Bar are tools
called Move, Scale, Crop, Smooth. After selecting an event in the Cue List,
click to select one of these tools before editing a time or level.
A tool icon may be selected “one time”, by single clicking on it. After the edit
is performed, Move is automatically re-selected.
A tool icon may be locked in place by double-clicking on it. After the edit is
performed, you may continue to make more edits using the same Tool.
Double-click on it again to unlock it.
Scale, Crop, and Smooth only affect fader moves.
Move 
Say we change the start time of the fader move. Does this mean
that you want the whole fader move to start and end later? If the
answer is yes, you would have first selected the Move tool.
When the Move tool is selected, any change made to the start of
the fader move is also automatically applied as an offset to the
end time. Likewise, any change to the end time will
automatically be applied as an offset to the start time. 
So the net effect is that the fader move stays the same length. It
just takes place earlier or later.
Move is always selected by default. 
Move applies to any kind of event, such as faders, channel
on/offs, parameter changes, markers, snapshots, and MIDI
events.
If you edit only the start time, the end time is automatically
changed the same amount. 
If you edit only the end time, the start time is automatically
changed the same amount. 
If you edit only the start level, the end level is automatically
changed the same amount. 
If you edit only the end level, the start level is automatically
changed the same amount. 
						

							Scale 
Suppose you make a fader move shorter by editing the end
time, that is, making the fader move end sooner. But you want
the move to start at the same time, and you want to preserve any
timing subtleties in the move. 
When Scale is selected, MAX can intelligently “squeeze” or
“stretch” a fader move, preserving all of the nuances of the
move. 
If the move was a slow fade in, making the end time earlier with
Scale selected turns the move into a quicker fade in.
If you edit the start time, the end time stays the same. 
If you edit the end time, the start time stays the same.
If you edit the start level, the end level stays the same. 
If you edit the end level, the start level stays the same. 
The dynamics of fader move are compressed or expanded.
Crop 
Crop allows you to shorten the move. If you change end time,
making it earlier, the move simply ends sooner.
Suppose that you just want to make a fader move stop at some
point. When Crop is selected, when you change the start or end
time, the software simply throws away the rest of the move. 
For example, if the move is a slow fade in from minus infinity up
to 0, making the end time earlier would result in a fade in that
stops at some point before reaching 0.
Smooth 
Smooth causes a straight line to be drawn between the start and
end of the move. 
If the fader move is erratic, selecting smooth will cause extra
steps of resolution to be inserted into the fader move to make
the move smoother.
This can be used to smooth an erratic move, even if you are not
changing the start or end time. Simply select the move in the
Cue List, and choose Smooth Now from the menu.
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							OFFSETBUTTONS
Sometimes it is desirable to perform Cue List edits using
absolute times, for example, “make this channel on/off occur at 01:02:34:12”.
Other times it might be desirable to perform Cue List edits in terms of offsets,
for example, “make all these channel on/offs happen 2 frames earlier.”
The Offset Buttons affect whether the numbers you type in to edit an event
will be used as absolute times or offsets.
Equals is selected by default. Equals allows you to enter absolute times. That
means any number you enter (level or time) will replace the previous number
(level or time.)
Click + and the number that you enter will be used as a positive offset.
Click - and the number that you enter will be used as a negative offset.
Alternately, typing +, -, or = will select the buttons.
The buttons automatically reset to = after the edit takes place.
If you want to continue to work with offsets, you may lock the button down
by double-clicking on it. A locked button will unlock if you single click on it
or any other button.
Example of Move with Offset Buttons
Suppose a fader move happens at 1 hour and 10 minutes. 
To make the same fader move happen 3 frames later, type in the Start Time
field: 00 00 00 03. Then click on +. 
Press Enter.
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							VIEW“DOCUMENT” ICON
View Events allows you to shorten the Cue List by displaying only selected
prior to editing or printing. 
Clicking on the document icon in the upper right of the Cue List toggles you
from viewing a filtered or unfiltered display, depending on the settings in the
View Events dialogue box.
If the View Events dialogue hasn’t been opened yet, that is, if no View
Events criteria have been set by the user for this particular mix, then
clicking here opens the View Events dialogue box.
VIEWEVENTSDIALOGUE
This dialogue box is normally opened by selecting View... from the Off Line
menu. 
The dialogue makes the Cue List easier to read by letting you specify which
events in the Cue List may be viewed. Events not viewed are still part of the
mix, but are “filtered” out of the Cue List so that they may not be seen or
selected.
(Before going any further, it may be helpful to point out that the channel
names that appear in these pictures were entered in the Names and Labels
dialogue box in the Edit menu.
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							Example of View Events
Say that you have a long mix consisting of thousands of events.
Say that you want to look at only the channel on/offs. 
Open the View Events dialogue. 
Uncheck Fader Moves, Snapshots, Markers and MIDI. Click Apply.
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							Observe that the Cue List now only shows channel on/offs.
The rest of the mix is still there, it just is not displayed.
Now say that you want to really remove all the fader moves from the mix but
keep the channel on/offs.
Check Fader Moves and uncheck Channel On/Offs. 
Click Apply.
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							To remove all the fader moves, select Clear. 
Click the View document icon to see all the events in the mix, which now has
no fader moves in it.
View Events may also be used to assist in finding and selecting a single
channel or a few channels prior to editing.
For example, say that you want to edit a fade out on channel 1 only.
Open View Events, and click to select Channel 1 only.
Then select a time range that the fade falls between.
Click Apply.
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