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Strange EMem occurrance

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Sun, 11/27/2005 - 09:03
rmerritt
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On JP 4, I built all my Fast Forward timelines (for an NBA game) with run levels DPM 2, DSK and PGM, bank 0 registers 1-9. Later, after building some Dveous effects to bank 2, I went back to run the FF transitions again, only to find that DPM 2 was no longer a part of the effect. DPM 3 & 4 lit up, but not DPM 2. I always use Auto Recall, but the only way I could run the effects was to Enable All, which would never work during the show because of the M/E 3 emem's. The effects would not work when turning enable all and auto recall off and manually enabling the needed levels. I ended up re-building 6 timelines 20 minutes before air. Has anyone else ever seen this on a 3K? I also had keyframes mysteriously appear at the end of my replay timeline. It was a 6 KF effect, but ended up with 10 KF. Whenever I would NEXT to them, the CUT button would go off which kept me from getting rid of them. Am I on drugs or what!? These are all simple operations, but I fgelt like a rookie all over again. I know I never did any LEARN+MOD to any of the effects, so how did the levels change? Strange......

Randy M

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Thu, 12/01/2005 - 14:55
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Dave Bernstein
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[quote="Scott Dailey"]IIt may be a pain to rebuild your show, but it is much more of a pain to deal with a switcher that thinks its a toaster. Scott[/quote] Now if someone could design a switcher that thinks its a blender then at least we could get some Margeritas out of it and the show would go a lot smoother!
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Tue, 11/29/2005 - 11:57
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Scott Dailey
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I agree with Dave. NMT's A-41 does this same thing, and I usually build all shows from scratch since I work mostly visitor shows. A first birthday fixes the problem. It does however come back after a few weeks. My guess is that it is, as Dave described, someone loading a disk with an old setup that contains the bad info. I have had the EIC on A-41 kick the switcher in the pants before a show and had no adverse effects. IIt may be a pain to rebuild your show, but it is much more of a pain to deal with a switcher that thinks its a toaster. Scott
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Mon, 11/28/2005 - 20:34
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rmerritt
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[quote="Dave Bernstein"]Sounds like you need to first-birthday that puppy and rebuild your show from scratch. Those 3 and 4ks tended to get "squirrely" as you say after a year or two of having different shows loaded into them every day. The trick is to get everyone who uses the switcher to build over from scratch. As soon as someone loads a disk, it might be one that holds a bunch of bugs and you're back to square one. This only applies to the switcher - the DVEous disks don't affect the switcher, as I'm sure you're well aware.[/quote] Hi Dave....these were effects that I built from scratch that seemed to lose enable levels while others were mysteriously added. In the absence of any other logical explanation, I can only assume it was something I did after building the effects. I still maintain, however, that the switcher in question has seen it's better days.
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Mon, 11/28/2005 - 17:55
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Dave Bernstein
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Sounds like you need to first-birthday that puppy and rebuild your show from scratch. Those 3 and 4ks tended to get "squirrely" as you say after a year or two of having different shows loaded into them every day. The trick is to get everyone who uses the switcher to build over from scratch. As soon as someone loads a disk, it might be one that holds a bunch of bugs and you're back to square one. This only applies to the switcher - the DVEous disks don't affect the switcher, as I'm sure you're well aware.
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Sun, 11/27/2005 - 22:10
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rmerritt
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Yeah John, I showed it to Cal, but he didn't have an idea. I was fooling around in the DPM Map Aux buses menu at one point, but I don't think I changed anything. I was running the Dveous in CPL on DPM 1 and the FF on DPM 2. I imagine it was something I did, but I can't figure what. I still think the master emem section of that switcher is squirrely. I often have problems doing a put to upper registers. I like to do a put for every effect to a higher register just as a back-up, but sometime it's problematic on this switcher.
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Sun, 11/27/2005 - 21:35
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JohnHowardSC
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How were you running your DVEous? CPL or PBus? Is there a chance you could have moved the PBus assignment away from DPM 2 after you built the FF TLs? Was Calan working and did he see this? I have known the DPM levels to do some wacky things on that truck from time to time but this is a first. JH
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