Control Panel VKEY 100 / external keyboard – simple mode

Let’s set the Trigger, which is to be assigned to the F1 key. The icon of Key F1 tab is highlighted . First, in the upper right corner of the window, switch to Simple mode. In a Simple mode, click on an icon at the upper left side of the window, and you will be able to select None or Graphics Overlay from the drop-down list.

Graphics Overlay mode enables you to easily load a file with a chosen type of medium. Click on the white arrow in the Media Stream field and select the type (that is a tab from the media tray where you have placed your file) from the drop-down menu: Still 1, Still 2, Text 1, Text 2, Media 1 Media 2, or Sound.

Choose a number of a page from the drop-down menu by clicking on the white arrow in the Container Page field.

The next step is to click the square button with three dots in the Media file field, to set the path to the file in the selected tab page of the tray.

A window reflecting a given medium tray (for example Media 1) will open. If the file of your interest does not exist, then you can double-click on an empty field and add it to the tray from the hard drive. This will create a file’s icon ready to be chosen as a path.

You can also set a manner in which the selected file enters on the vision. It is done by clicking on the Transition icon and setting the transition’s duration – the number of seconds or frames. For video files (Media) and Sound, a loop, that is playing a file repeatedly, can be enabled.

When the Loop is marked as active, the file will be visible on the air and played in a loop until the function button ‘F’ is pressed again by the user.

When the Loop is not checked, the file will be visible on the air and will end with its last frame, automatically leaving the Program image, i.e. turning the Trigger function off automatically.

The beginning and the end of the medium file take into account Mark In and Mark Out markers on the file, when you use it as a Simple Trigger.

Simple Trigger supports full audio for a given file, so when the tray is active on a mixer, the sound will appear at the system output when the Trigger is activated.

Simple Triggers are often used as additional scenery or special effects files, like for example semitransparent video files.

After setting all the parameters, click on the Activate Command icon at the bottom left of the window. If all the following actions were completed correctly, the command will be activated for a given key. If not – the system will inform you what yet remains to be set.

Normally, during the production, the functions are not triggered with Activate Command icon, but with the ‘F’ function keys located on the control panel’s keyboard vKEY-100 or PC keyboard .