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How to perform transitions, using keys and key modifiers, memories and custom controls, as well as Media-Store operation.
UltraScene
UltraScene provides a simplified interface for creating a show with multiple key layers and basic transitions.
Scene Overview
To Create a Scene

Operation
How to perform transitions, using keys and key modifiers, memories and custom controls, as well as Media-Store operation.
- Audio and Video Processing
  Video and audio signals are processed and passed through the switcher in different ways, depending on how the switcher is being used or is set up. A better understanding of how the switcher is processing these signals help you to achieve the production you want.
- Video Sources
  The switcher has access to three basic types of video sources, external, internal, and follows.
- Video Layering
  How video is layered in the output of the switcher depends on how an ME is re-entered onto the other, and what keyers are on-air for the ME.
- Video Preview
  Video preview allows you to use an additional monitor to preview what the next shot is going to be.
- Matte Source
  Matte color backgrounds (BG) are color signals that can be applied to backgrounds and keys. Color selection is done either by picking a preset color, or by adjusted hue, saturation, and luminance to create a custom color.
- Copying
  You can copy the content of an ME or keyer to another ME or keyer.
- Transitions
  Transitions are used to change the background video and take keys on and off-air. A transition can include any combinations of background and keyers for an ME, MiniME™, or Canvas. The background and each keyer can be transitioned independently.
- Keying
  Keying is the term used to describe when you insert (or electronically cut) portions of one scene into another, or place titles over background images. Keys are made up of two basic components, an alpha, that cuts the hole in the background video, and a fill, that fills the hole with different video.
- Memory Functions
  A memory register is a snapshot of the current state of the switcher that can include one or multiple ME, MiniME™, Canvas, scenes, or chroma key outputs. Up to 100 memory registers per ME, MiniME™, Canvas, scene, or chroma key can be stored and recalled on the switcher. Each of these memory registers can store as little as the information of one ME, or as much as the current state of the entire switcher, including all ME, MiniME™, Canvas, scenes, chroma key outputs, Aux Buses, and DVE settings.
- Audio Mixer
  The audio mixer node in DashBoard provides a graphical interface to all the audio sources and mixer layers. An audio channel must be routed to the switcher to be controllable by the audio mixer interface. Audio sources can come from the embedded audio on an input BNC, through the 1RU Audio Breakout Unit, or from the Media-Store.
- Switcher Sets
  The switcher stores configuration and operation data in a number of registers that contain the individual entries for items such as memories or personality settings. These registers can be stored as a single archive file, or as a register set that contains all the individual register of that type; all memories for example. These files are stored into Sets on USB drive. Different Sets can be created for different shows or applications, allowing you to quickly locate and recall the switcher configurations.
- Media-Store
  The MediaManager interface to the Media-Store allows you to load stills, animations, or audio files from the USB drive and make them available across all MEs. Up to 4 (4 in UHDTV1) independent channels of video with alpha for playout of stills and animations are available switcher-wide.
- Clip Player
  The clip player offers a single playout channel for compressed MPEG-4 AVC (ITU-T H.264) that can be assigned as a source on any bus in the switcher. Basic transport controls can be performed manually from the Clip Player page, using custom controls, or through AMP commands.
- Custom Controls
  Once programmed, a custom control (CC) can be played back by pressing a button. The custom control can be as simple as triggering an output GPI pulse, or as complex as recalling a specific memory register on an ME, performing a switcher transition, and selecting a group of keys.
- Sequencer
  The Sequencer allows you to create a playlist of custom control events.
- UltraScene
  UltraScene provides a simplified interface for creating a show with multiple key layers and basic transitions.

To Create a Scene

Click Navigation Menu > Live Assist > UltraScene > Scene X for the scene you want to use.
Click the Add Layer Pair button to add as many layer pairs as you need for your show.

Tip: If you only need an odd number of layers you will still need to add an even number of layers. For example, if you only need 3 layers, you will still need to add 2 layer pairs resulting in 4 layers.
Click the Video Source button for the layer you want to set up and select the source you want to use for the layer. If you want to use a chroma keyer, select the CK you want to use and click Alpha/Chroma Key Source to select the video source you want to chroma key.
Click the Type button and select the type of keying you want to use for the layer. Layer types are set up in same way at key types. Refer to Keying for information on setting up different key types.

Tip: If PaneLINK is active, the 3-knob menu will jump to the menus for the layer you are setting up.
Click the On/Off button to select whether the layer is on-air (On) or off-air (Off).
Set up the remaining layers as required.

Tip: If you want to change the order of the layers, click and hold on the name of the layer position (Layer 1 for example) and drag it to the new position you want it to be and release. The new position is always between two existing layers or at the top or bottom. When you move the layer the other lays will shift to fill in the gap.

Tip: You can copy a layer and paste it over any other position on the same or a different scene.
Click the Background button and select the source you want to use on the background. If you are using the scene as a key you can leave the background as black (BK).