Ok..First off..We just had a 3.5 M/E Sony MVS-8000g installed at our plant this month. Our first shoot in the new control room is at the end of the month.

I have two problems..that I hope can be fixed but from what I understand it is a limitation of the half M/E software...so maybe you guys have found a workaround.

The 8000 has no preview delegation bus for the preview output...So I thought I would try to hook up the edit preview output and use that as my preset delegation. Turns out that the edit preview always has a timecode burn in on the screen because after going through the editor menus I couldn't get it to turn off..only change what was displayed. On to plan B...I thought I would just assign each M/E preview to a crosspoint and then route them through an aux bus..and attach a macro on th P/P M/E previews that switches that aux bus. Things work great until I get to the P/P preview through the Aux...It won't let me view it, just goes to black. Any thoughts on how to get all four M/E Previews working???

This leads into my other problem...I can't send program out of any aux outputs..I was told by the sony rep that this was a limitation of the half M/E software..but I'm crossing my fingers as to a workaround.

As always..any help is greatly appreciated..

Michael Nice