Control Panel VKEY 100 / external keyboard – DSK: SET PREVIEW

Enabling this feature allows you to make DSK visible on Preview. You have to choose which DSK you want to enable by indicating it in the box: Set visibility of DSK units on Preview. You can turn both DSKs on at the same time, you just have to tick both Enabled checkboxes. When you press a key with this function, DSK content will be displayed on the Preview screen and DSK buttons will lit up green.

Example: the following task is to be accomplished: after pressing F1 function key, a logo from Text1 tray is to be assigned to DSK1, then enabled and positioned on the Preview screen at X=55, Y=01 coordinates. At the same time, a text from Text2 tray assigned to DSK2 is to be shown on the screen at X=65, Y=60.

Then, after spending 5 seconds on the Preview screen, the text and the logo should appear on the Program screen via MIX transition with 3 seconds transition time. They are to be displayed for 10 seconds on the air. Then, after these 10 seconds, the text and the logo should be removed from the air via MIX transition with 3 seconds transition time.

A description of the whole procedure will be as follows:

Select one of the KeyF keys in the Triggers window, e.g. Key F1. Select Advanced mode in the upper right corner of the window.
From the Select command type drop-down list add DSK: Set Preview function using Add button and then, tick both Enabled checkboxes, enabling this function for DSK1 and DSK2 on Preview.
Then, add DSK: Set Source function from the drop-down list, set DSK1 in DSK Unit feld and Text1 in DSK Stream feld.
Next, once again select and add DSK: Set Source function setting DSK2 in DSK Unit feld and Text2 in DSK Stream feld.
Afterwards, select and add DSK: Set Position function from the drop-down list. In the Unit feld, select DSK1 and set the logo’s desired position on the screen. That is, X=55, Y=01.
Add DSK: Set Position function once again. In the Unit feld, select DSK2 and set a position the text is to have on the screen, i.e. X=65, Y=60
Then, add General Delay function and set a delay of 5 seconds. It will be a time in which the logo and the text will be displayed the Preview screen.
Now, add DSK: Transition MIX function with Transition time of 3 seconds, which will allow the logo and the text to enter the Program screen.
Add General Delay function again with a delay of 10 seconds, which will be the time the logo and text remain on the Program screen.
After that, add DSK: Transition MIX function with Transition time of 3 seconds, which will allow the logo and the text to go off the air to the Preview screen.
At the end, add DSK: Set Preview function – and leave the two Enabled checkboxes unchecked, i.e. turn DSK1 and DSK2 off.

The whole sequence triggered by pressing F1 function key will look like this: DSK1 and DSK2 buttons are being turned on. In the application, both DSK buttons light up green. Simultaneously, a source for DSK1 and for DSK2 is selected. At the same time, positions of the logo and the text are set. The logo and the text remain on the Preview screen for 5 seconds. They go on the air on the Program screen via MIX transition that lasts 3 seconds. They remain on the air for 10 seconds. They go off the air to the Preview screen via MIX transition lasting 3 seconds. Both DSKs are being turned off.

Note: Additional interesting use: The situation where you have more than one file in the tray from which you will be importing a source for DSK (as in the example above, Text1 and Text2 trays). Then, you can add Media: Select function (described later in the text) before using DSK: Set Source function. This will allow you to select a precise tab in the tray and then select a file that you want to assign to DSK.