Profile

Sorin Podeanu

Contact Details

My Content

1 to 20 of 46 total

RE: Question regarding loading sets on Carbonite

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 07-17-2026 13:15
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
I totally got what you're saying. It was just something I've stumbled upon while trying to figure why it's not working. Those DashBoard menus are really scary for me 😄 Up until now all i did was to drag and drop buttons from existing menus. When I will have more time, I will watch all those clips ...

RE: Question regarding loading sets on Carbonite

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 07-17-2026 11:45
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
Well, I don't know what to say. Yesterday when I left the studio the buttons weren't working, today when I came back I changed the IDs and suddenly they worked. I did restarted Caprica and DashBoard again, after changing the IDs and I also changed the port number. Who knows. The important thing ...

RE: Question regarding loading sets on Carbonite

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 07-17-2026 09:40
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
oh, I also tried to trigger those buttons using the html method, but instead of running the custom controls, the browser simply displayed the panel and the buttons, it ignored the trigger ID. So i guess the max number of digits is DashBoard related, rather than Caprica. ------------------------------ ...

RE: Question regarding loading sets on Carbonite

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 07-17-2026 09:30
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
Well, I've switched from the global listener to the internal one since I couldn't find the reason it would not work, so I tried modifiying any variables I could. The important thing is that it worked, in the end :) ------------------------------ Sorin Podeanu technical director Euronews Romania -- ...

RE: Question regarding loading sets on Carbonite

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 07-17-2026 06:20
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
Hey Les! After 6 days of tweaking during a lot of 5 minutes breaks between broadcasting segments, I finally managed to make it work! Your guide was most helpful, although the screenshots were quite hard to use because of the poor quality. It took me a while to figure out that i have to enable the ...

RE: Question regarding loading sets on Carbonite

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 07-10-2026 17:24
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
Thank you, Les, for this incredibly detailed reply. I'm slowly beginning to understand how this whole thing works. I will follow your guide Monday and rebuild my custom panel with the new settings. Thanks again, have a great weekend! ------------------------------ Sorin Podeanu technical director ...

RE: Question regarding loading sets on Carbonite

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 07-10-2026 09:49
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
Thank you Les for the detailed guide. I had already built my custom panel, I was at the stage with the confirmation for the "Load Set" button. The panel works, mouse clicks reflect in the Carbonite menu. Next I filled in the field with the trigger numbers, 1001 and 1002 respectively, for both "select ...

RE: Question regarding loading sets on Carbonite

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 07-08-2026 13:51
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
Thank you Les for letting me know there is a possibility to build a custom panel. I tried to do that a few days ago, without much succes. I will try again. Hopefully I will find a way to send confirmation via RossTalk also, or through any other means. If I won't succeed, I will open a ticket. Thanks ...

RE: Question regarding loading sets on Carbonite

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 07-08-2026 10:22
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
So, I did some further testing and that RossTalk command does not recall memory 0. Instead, I suspect that it tries (and succeeds) to initialize all the settings, no matter if the set contains only the memories. While the DashBoard menu sends selective load commands. I will try to re-create the commands ...

RE: Question regarding loading sets on Carbonite

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 06-30-2026 18:09
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
Thanks for the suggestion Les. I will modify memory 0 to activate a key on an unused ME to make sure that indeed the RossTalk command recalls memory 0. If that's the case, I will duplicate memory 0 to a different number and change all necessary templates to recall the new memory. Then I will modify ...

RE: Question regarding loading sets on Carbonite

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 06-30-2026 17:20
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
Thank you Michael, I'm beginning to understand the idea behind this variable thing. The only problem is that I'm not that technically savvy to create those things in DashBoard. Also we do not use buttons on Overdrive to recall boxes, we have shots for that. So I would have to add to each shot a CC ...

RE: Question regarding loading sets on Carbonite

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 06-30-2026 16:46
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
That's exactly what I did. I created two empty folders on the USB drive, test1 and test2. I saved only the memories on each of them. Recalling those two sets with the mouse via DashBoard works with no issues. Loading them via the RossTalk command also works but it runs memory 0 on load, and memory ...

RE: Question regarding loading sets on Carbonite

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 06-30-2026 15:43
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
Hi Les, thanks for replying! Unfortunately, the only viable way to answer the producers request is by finding a way to use two different memory sets. They specifically asked me to make it possible to change it back and forth mid show. Having two sets of automated templates is impossible, since our ...

Question regarding loading sets on Carbonite

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 06-30-2026 10:25
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
Hello all, I work with a Carbonite Ultra (v 9.2.2) and our producers requested to have a new set of boxes built, equivalent to the current ones, but with different sizes and proportions, and to be able to switch between them at any given moment without affecting the templates and scenes from Overdrive. ...

RE: Scenes vs MEs

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 02-21-2026 08:45
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
Thank you, Louis, I will try your advice on Monday when I get back to work. I don't remember exactly how I made that shot. I think I created a non ME template in Overdrive, just to be able to recall a custom control (that custom control simply recalling an ultra scene) and then I added 6 additional ...

RE: Scenes vs MEs

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 02-21-2026 01:34
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
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 ...

RE: Scenes vs MEs

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 02-19-2026 01:44
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
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 ...

RE: Split Key with Overdrive

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 01-16-2026 08:37
Found In Egroup: Production Workflow \ view thread
Hi Guillaume, Since you also run Caprica you could try to create a custom control that recalls that memory with Preview Relative as destination. Then add that custom control on the Overdrive template, and set it to run when Prepared with a short delay (10 frames or whatever Overdrive requires to ...

RE: Adding "safety" when playing CG elements inside Overdrive

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 10-02-2025 10:34
Found In Egroup: Production Workflow \ view thread
Thank you, Chris, for your reply. Just to add some small details: the TD selected a CG to play, while obviously having another shot prepared, and when he pressed Space he accidentally pressed twice, just 80 milliseconds apart, and the Overdrive played the CG element but it also advanced the rundown. ...

RE: Adding "safety" when playing CG elements inside Overdrive

Posted By Sorin Podeanu 10-02-2025 06:10
Found In Egroup: Production Workflow \ view thread
Ok, in case anyone has the same problem, I found a workaround: I have enable Bounce Keys in Windows, which prevents double press of a key, and set it to 0.3 seconds. Hopefully this will prevent unwanted incidents. But it would be nice to have this as an option in Overdrive. Thank you ----------- ...