Production Switchers

I am playing around with Scenes and I'm curious what other people think. It's obvious that it saves MEs but beside that, how do you find them useful?

Thanks!

I use scenes mainly for +4 boxes, since I use a Carbonite ultra with 4 keys MEs. 

But the main appeal is having them as a single source on the pgm bus, rather than an ME plus keys.

The main drawback is that i fiind it quite tedious to change sources inside scenes (using touchdrive dashboard and the mouse)  as opposed to changing sources in ME keys.

I am playing around with Scenes and I'm curious what other people think. It's obvious that it saves MEs but beside that, how do you find them useful?

Thanks!

Hi Sorin,

As a suggestion you could use "Aux Buses" as a virtual source in your Layers.  That way you could say put Aux 21 as Layer 1 and 22 as layer 2 etc.  Then you could more easily select sources for those layers using the TD panel and delegating the top row to those Aux buses.

I use scenes mainly for +4 boxes, since I use a Carbonite ultra with 4 keys MEs. 

But the main appeal is having them as a single source on the pgm bus, rather than an ME plus keys.

The main drawback is that i fiind it quite tedious to change sources inside scenes (using touchdrive dashboard and the mouse)  as opposed to changing sources in ME keys.

I am playing around with Scenes and I'm curious what other people think. It's obvious that it saves MEs but beside that, how do you find them useful?

Thanks!

Hey Les!

Thanks for your reply. I did build a scene using AUXs as sources, but it behaves rather weirdly when I try to add it to OverDrive as a template. One of the reasons is that OverDrive doesn't see any Scene as a selectable source. And recalling it via a memory empties the sources sent to the layers. I must be doing something wrong, but it's not that big of a deal, as I can assign saved scenes as Custom Controls on my ShotBox.

And about switching sources in AUX buses using the TD Panel - it's not that easy with more complex scenes that use 4–6 layers. It's actually a bit faster to use a mouse inside Dashboard.

Hi Sorin,

As a suggestion you could use "Aux Buses" as a virtual source in your Layers.  That way you could say put Aux 21 as Layer 1 and 22 as layer 2 etc.  Then you could more easily select sources for those layers using the TD panel and delegating the top row to those Aux buses.

I use scenes mainly for +4 boxes, since I use a Carbonite ultra with 4 keys MEs. 

But the main appeal is having them as a single source on the pgm bus, rather than an ME plus keys.

The main drawback is that i fiind it quite tedious to change sources inside scenes (using touchdrive dashboard and the mouse)  as opposed to changing sources in ME keys.

I am playing around with Scenes and I'm curious what other people think. It's obvious that it saves MEs but beside that, how do you find them useful?

Thanks!

Hey Les!

Thanks for your reply. I did build a scene using AUXs as sources, but it behaves rather weirdly when I try to add it to OverDrive as a template. One of the reasons is that OverDrive doesn't see any Scene as a selectable source. And recalling it via a memory empties the sources sent to the layers. I must be doing something wrong, but it's not that big of a deal, as I can assign saved scenes as Custom Controls on my ShotBox.

And about switching sources in AUX buses using the TD Panel - it's not that easy with more complex scenes that use 4–6 layers. It's actually a bit faster to use a mouse inside Dashboard.

Hi Sorin,

As a suggestion you could use "Aux Buses" as a virtual source in your Layers.  That way you could say put Aux 21 as Layer 1 and 22 as layer 2 etc.  Then you could more easily select sources for those layers using the TD panel and delegating the top row to those Aux buses.

I use scenes mainly for +4 boxes, since I use a Carbonite ultra with 4 keys MEs. 

But the main appeal is having them as a single source on the pgm bus, rather than an ME plus keys.

The main drawback is that i fiind it quite tedious to change sources inside scenes (using touchdrive dashboard and the mouse)  as opposed to changing sources in ME keys.

I am playing around with Scenes and I'm curious what other people think. It's obvious that it saves MEs but beside that, how do you find them useful?

Thanks!

I am playing around with Scenes and I'm curious what other people think. It's obvious that it saves MEs but beside that, how do you find them useful?

Thanks!