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Configurator, networking, video I/O setup, and signalling setup.
Personality
Personality settings allow you to configure how you interact with the control panel and switcher, as well as how the buttons on the control panel appear. All of these settings are stored in the Personality register.
Bus Maps
Any video input can be mapped to any source button on the control panel using a bus map. Each source button can have multiple inputs assigned (a main source and shifted sources). You can have up to 6 shifted buses.
Shift Function

Setup
Configurator, networking, video I/O setup, and signalling setup.
- MaxConfig Switcher Configurator
  MaxConfig creates the switchers, assigns SDPE blades to them, sets what roles each blade perform in the switcher, and sets the video mode that each switcher is operating in.
- Network Connections
  Setting up network connections to the switcher, as well as network storage and file transfers.
- System Access
  Enable or disable system access and control methods such as RossTalk and FTP.
- Video Reference
  The switcher uses the REF A or B input reference signal on the router directly as a reference clock. The switcher does not rely on the reference settings in Ultrix™ for a reference signal.
- Video Inputs
  Video sources come into the switcher from the router matrix. Depending on how you want to use these video sources, or where they come from, you may want the switcher to pair them together, or associate an external device with them. Pairing two video sources together is usually used for an auto select key where an external device, such as a character generator, outputs both a key video and key alpha. Associating a video source with an external device allows special control over that device to become active when you select the source on a bus.
- Video Outputs
  Switcher outputs are routed to destinations in the router matrix.
- MultiViewer
  The MultiViewer allows you to view multiple video sources from a single output BNC. Video inputs or outputs on the switcher, including Program, Preview, and Media-Store channels, can be assigned to any box on the MultiViewer.
- System Real-Time Clock/Date
  The switcher uses an internal clock to generate the time for the clock overlay for the MultiViewer.
- Audio Output
  Audio sources from the Media-Store can be sent out the AES outputs on each of the SDPE blades.
- Personality
  Personality settings allow you to configure how you interact with the control panel and switcher, as well as how the buttons on the control panel appear. All of these settings are stored in the Personality register.
  - Personality Settings
    There are a number of settings for how the switcher will react to different situations, or how switcher elements appear to the operator. All these settings are grouped together into the Switcher Personality. These settings include double-press rates and sleep time, among others.
  - Color Schemes
    The buttons on the control panel glow with different colors specific to their state, function, and assignment. This color can be selected from a list of pre-set color schemes, or a custom color can be selected. Up to four (4) custom color schemes can be saved on the switcher.
  - Bus Maps
    Any video input can be mapped to any source button on the control panel using a bus map. Each source button can have multiple inputs assigned (a main source and shifted sources). You can have up to 6 shifted buses.
    - Shift Function
    - To Create a Bus Map
      The bus map assigns video sources to the buttons on the control panel.
    - To Assign a Bus Map
      You can assign a unique bus map to each bus accessible by the control panel.
  - User Buttons
    These buttons can be assigned to a number of functions, including ME and key selections, custom control, and memories. The number and position of the buttons on the control panel depend on the model of your control panel.
  - Dual Delegation Row Button Text Alignment (TDx Series)
    You can adjust the placement of the text in the Dual Delegation row buttons for better visibility at different angles.
- Licenses
  Software options allow you to expand the functionality or resources available to the switcher as well as operate in UHDTV1. These options can either be licensed at the time you purchase your switcher, purchased and installed later on, or temporarily licensed through the Ross Platform Manager (RPM).
- GPI Control
  General Purpose Interface (GPI) is a high/low voltage signalling protocol that allows the switcher to send simple commands to an external device, or receive commands from a device. Each pin on the GPI is set as either high (+5 Volts), or low (0 Volts), and it is the switching between high and low that sends commands to the external device, or to the switcher.
- Live Edit Decision Lists (LiveEDL)
  Edit Decision Lists are files used by non-linear editing (NLE) suites to aid in post-production. Your switcher can capture EDL data in a file that you load into your NLE suite.
- MultiPanel
  Each frame supports up to 3 independent control connections (Main, Satellite 1, and Satellite 2) as well as Satellite 3/SoftPanel. Each connection, with the exception of SoftPanel, can be from a control panel, DashBoard, or a combination of the two. All devices on the same control connection mirror each other.

Shift Function

Shift allows you to access addition sets of source buttons from the same bus. When you assign a Shift to a button on the bus map, that button can only be used to access that shifted row and is unavailable on all other rows. For example, the Shift 1 button can only be used to access shirt row 1 and the Shift 2 button can only be used to access shift row 2. Both the Shift 1 and Shift 2 buttons are not available to be used for sources on that bus map. When you press and hold, or double-press, a shift button, the source buttons on that bus change to the shifted row of source buttons. The mnemonics will change as well to indicate the new source assignments.

If you assign Shift Loop to a button, the same button can be used to access any shift row. The mnemonic on the TD panel shows what shift row the button is currently assigned to. Tap the mnemonic to cycle through all of the shift rows to assign the button to that shift row.