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BPswitch Operators Manual Table of contents Warranty Information ................................................................................................ 9 Installation and Getting Started ................................................................................. 10 Optional Tally Box ................................................................................................ 10 Installing Optional 8 port Tally Box .................................................................... 11 Installing Optional 24 port Tally Box .................................................................. 12 Activating the Optional Tally Box Drivers ............................................................ 13 Installing Multiple Tally Boxes ........................................................................... 14 Audio I/O ............................................................................................................ 15 Clip Audio Advance .......................................................................................... 16 Running a Show ................................................................................................... 19 System Status ...................................................................................................... 21 System Settings ................................................................................................... 22 Changing the Startup Show .............................................................................. 22 Selecting between 60 and 50 Hz ....................................................................... 23 Changing the Switching Boundary ..................................................................... 24 Control Panel Installation ...................................................................................... 25 Back-Up Software ..................................................................................................... 28 Broadcast Pix Concepts ............................................................................................. 34 Broadcast Pix Switcher Features ............................................................................ 34 PixButtons for Executing with Confidence ............................................................... 34 Devices ............................................................................................................... 37 Device Controls ................................................................................................ 39 Assigning the Device Controls ........................................................................... 40 Keyboard Shortcuts .......................................................................................... 42 Enabling Keyboard Shortcuts ............................................................................ 43 Using Keyboard Shortcuts ................................................................................. 44 Multi-View PixPad ................................................................................................. 45 PixPad Navigation ............................................................................................ 47 PixPad Order Controls ...................................................................................... 51 Floating PixPads ............................................................................................... 52 Multi-View ........................................................................................................... 53 Overview of the Multi-View ............................................................................... 53 Sources on the Multi-View ................................................................................ 54 Keyer Windows on the Multi-View ..................................................................... 55 Program/Preview Overlays on the Multi-View ..................................................... 56 Counters ......................................................................................................... 56 Switching on the Multi-View .............................................................................. 57 Multi-View System Settings ............................................................................... 59 Floating Monitors ............................................................................................. 61 Labeling the Multi-View .................................................................................... 65 Multi-Lingual Multi-View ................................................................................... 66 Clocks on the Multi-View ................................................................................... 68 Controlling Timer on the Multi-View ................................................................... 71 List of Screen Resolutions ..................................................................................... 75 2 / 413 BPswitch Operators Manual Adjusting the Windows Desktop Screen Resolution ............................................. 76 PixMaster Show Editor .............................................................................................. 76 Creating a New Show ........................................................................................... 77 Selecting an Existing Show to Edit ......................................................................... 79 Editing a Show ..................................................................................................... 80 Editing a Show's Content ...................................................................................... 81 Editing a Show's Content from the Multi-View .................................................... 82 Reordering, Adding, or Removing Content ............................................................. 83 To Reorder Content .......................................................................................... 84 To Reorder a Group of Content ......................................................................... 84 Adding Content from the Central Library ............................................................ 85 Adding a Group of Content from the Central Library ........................................... 87 Manually Importing Content .............................................................................. 88 Importing Content Into a Subfolder ................................................................... 90 Fluent Watch Folders ....................................................................................... 90 Cloud-Based Watch Folders .............................................................................. 94 Resizing and Softening Images ......................................................................... 97 Previewing Content .......................................................................................... 97 Renaming Content ........................................................................................... 99 Removing Content from a Show ...................................................................... 100 Permanently Deleting Content from the Library ................................................ 101 Searching for Content in the Library ................................................................ 102 Modifying Attributes ....................................................................................... 103 Show Content Summary ..................................................................................... 104 Edit Show Settings ............................................................................................. 105 Switcher Sources Assignments ........................................................................ 107 Adding Wildcard Devices ................................................................................ 108 Show Macros ................................................................................................. 109 Global Naming of Memories ............................................................................ 110 Custom Images on Memory PixButtons ............................................................ 111 Macro Row Assignments ................................................................................. 112 Tally Remapping ................................................................................................ 114 Show Linking ..................................................................................................... 115 Restoring a Show ............................................................................................... 117 Restoring System Settings .............................................................................. 117 Exporting a Show ............................................................................................... 118 Importing a Show .......................................................................................... 120 Exporting System Files ................................................................................... 121 Importing System Files ................................................................................... 122 Digital Production Switcher ..................................................................................... 123 Switcher Controls ..............................................................................................