Hello...I accidentally deleted the entire thread about versions...so I will continue it here.. Sorry

[quote="Rick wrote"]Curt,
If I had to do it, I would go with 4 internal and 4 external. I think the cost in I/O may be too high to go all 8 external. You're just not gaining that much, in my opinion.

The fake auz buses are only for the internal DMEs and cannot be accessed by anything else since they're not really aux busses. In regards to using real aux busses to feed external DMEs or DVEous, there are 48 aux busses in the 8000A. Whether or not you have enough outputs installed into the switcher for them to GO anywhere is up to you :-) If you hook up a DVEous (how many channels of DVEs do you NEED????), it would need an aux bus for each video input (since the DVEous had to choose between a key channel and the dual mode, I think it's 4 right?). So, if you were feeding an external DME's video and key channel you would use, for example, AUX 1 and AUX 2. There is a menu setting on Bus linking called "LINK AS KEY" You would link AUX 2 to AUX 1 AS KEY so when you selected video on Aux 1, the auto-selected key signal would automatically be selected on AUX 2 for you.

The 8000 series does not require a key to be mapped to its own button. Each crosspoint has a video/key pair assigned to it.[/quote]
Rick...thanks for the information. The DVEous was before I thought we would get any other DME channels...which I found out is now the case.( although...hmm...another 4 channels....hahaha) So now I think we will have 2 internal, and 4 external DME's.

I assume I could use Aux 1 for the fill, and Aux let's say 21 for the key output that would feed one channel of ext DME. ( Aux 2 and Aux 22, Aux 3 and 23, etc). THis way externals could be fed from Aux 1 through 4 and the keys would folllow out other outputs.? This way it would be easier to remember Aux 1 for DME 1, Aux 2 for DME 2, etc.

Thank you

Curt