Hi Susaneve, I work on a Ross board daily at my news station, a Synergy 2.5. If you have any questions I would be delighted to help you out. Whose truck has a Ross in it? Did you see my posting, maybe six or seven down from yours asking of Ross boards out there? I worked on a Kalypso once, had crash course training on it and thought it a little complicated but powerful. The Ross board is the first one that I have been able to sit and learn the Ins and Outs on, Im highly delighted its the first one becuase it was supersimple to get really good-really fast. I have the pdf manuals if that will take the pressure off i can email them to you so you can look them over and get bak to me with any questions.

The Ross works a bit differently, if you have a Kalypso, then the memory does all the calling of things, you call a memory, and it holds the clips, macros, all that. On the Ross, you have a macro, that calls the memories/clips, everything. It's the workflow that makes the difference, figure that out and you will be good to go.

[quote="scottgfx"]I met Mr. Ross at NAB this year. (The son of the founder, I forget his first name) His father is retired and he is running the company now. I really enjoyed talking to him. I thought their new Vision control surface had some nice innovative features. I seem to remember something said about trying to make the switchers sexier or something like that. :)[/quote] His name is David Ross.. Helicopter, how about giving some constructive criticism..? I switch on a 4me Ross switcher and think it has some great features.. For example, the macro system is awesome; completely editable (doesn't require a sidepanel), relative or absolute macros, etc.. and the internal DVE's are pretty wicked too..

[quote="helicopter01"]ross=crap[/quote] Even if this was a thread asking about which switcher was better, your response would add absolutely nothing to the discussion. This is (was) a thread asking about actual usage. I met Mr. Ross at NAB this year. (The son of the founder, I forget his first name) His father is retired and he is running the company now. I really enjoyed talking to him. I thought their new Vision control surface had some nice innovative features. I seem to remember something said about trying to make the switchers sexier or something like that. :)

[quote="helicopter01"]ross=crap[/quote] So you brought back a 2-year-old thread just to contribute this? Very helpful.

Thank you very much Brian. If the job comes through, it will be HD. I'm not sure how much training they'll give me so it make me feel much more comfortable to hear that the learning curve won't be too great. Thanks for your reply and offering your help. I appreciate it.

If you're familiar with grass you shouldn't have too much trouble learning the Synergy 3 MDX. As far as basic switching goes its very similar in style to the grass switchers. You should find the panel to be very intuitive and probably won't have much dificulty in figuring out where things are. Will you be using it in HD or SD? You'll find the macros (custom controls as their called on the Synergy) to be very useful; and they're editable too. If you have any specific questions i can try to answer them for you.