Facility Control

I was experimenting with the Desktop Preview.  Is it possible to:

1. Have a button push send the scene into the preview (perhaps a CUE / preview state?) and a second push take the scene to air? 

2. Can the XPression sequence remain untouched (as opposed to using SEQI which moves all over the place?)

Preview works fine when it's watching what the sequence preview is doing.  But I have some users that would like to preview graphics before sending to air - normally graphics containing stat data from various sources.

thanks!

Brian

For your first question, I dont have the Xpression/DashBoard API... But if it's basically the same as putting a scene in Xpression into the preview output, use the "set Focus" or FOCUS RossTalk command.

For a button to do what you're looking for, I'd make it so a button has a variable with the takeid.
Then make a parameter that holds "preview" value.
On push, get the variable takeid from the specified button, check it towards the stored parameter "preview".
If it's NOT the same, store the takeID in the "preview" variable, and run the FOCUS RossTalk.
It it IS the same, then run the SEQI with the takeID.

For your second part of the question, I dont think there is... Would love to be wrong here though! So if anyone's got a chime on on that, that'd be great, though I have a feeling you'd get a better answer in the Xpression part of the forum.

Simply use the Rosstalk TAKE command. The sequencer focus won't move.

http://help.rossvideo.com/carbonite-device/Topics/Protocol/RossTalk/XPN/RT-XPN-Comm.html

SEQI: Loads the take item takeid to air on layer number layer to the output channel selected in the template. The Sequencer focus moves to this item. For example, SEQI 0005:7 loads the take item 0005 onto layer 7.

TAKE: Loads take item takeid to air in framebuffer number buffer on layer number layer. The Sequencer focus does not move to this item. For example, TAKE 5:0:7 loads the template with TakeID 5 into framebuffer 1 and onto layer 7.

There is also an UPNEXT command you can send that will update the sequencer preview window without actually moving focus to it.