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Film Post-Production Monitoring Panel
The Film and Post Monitoring Panel fulfills the requirements for
a traditional PEC/Direct monitoring system for the film post-pro-
duction environment. It can be used in single and multi-operator
System 5 consoles. Up to four Film Post Panels can be installed
in a system.
The Film Monitor module is divided into two distinct parts: the
traditional PEC/DIR panel on the left, and an additional utility
panel to the right. The right panel duplicates most of the master
section’s monitoring and setup functions.
The PEC/DIR Panel
This panel houses the traditional paddles used for PEC/DIR,
Bus/Playback, or Bus/Tape switching. The second sets of pad-
dles are used to put track(s) into record. There are eight paddle
strips, with associated switches above them, and a master con-
trol strip. Bus/Tape switching on the paddles is between the Mix
Sections and their associated returns. However, it is possible to
switch not only the whole bus section but the individual buses
(legs). By default, each mix bus section is assigned to a paddle.
The master simply controls all linked bus sections at once, (i.e.,
hit the On switch on the master and all linked On switches turn
On). The bus section name appears in the four-character display.
All operations take place within the console’s existing monitor
matrix and affect only the main (CR) monitors. Turn a section On
and it is sent to the monitors (same as the CM401-T monitor
section), solo a section and anything currently assigned to the
main monitors is removed, leaving only the required section.
The Ready switch enables dropping the tracks associated with
the bus-section into record using the record paddle.
Speaker Re-Assign
The system automatically sends mix buses to the correct moni-
tor bus based on the bus section format. For example, when
monitoring FX, the left bus of the section is automatically sent
to the left monitor bus. It is sometimes required to override this
assignment and send a mix bus to a different monitor bus than
was intended. It is possible to use the Exp/Sel keys above the
displays on the PEC/DIR paddle to select buses within a section.
When a bus is selected, the Speaker Re-Assign panel illumi-
nates the current monitor bus assignment. Selecting a different
speaker from the panel re-assigns the bus within the monitor
matrix.
FILM PANEL