Posted by Richard Crowley on 07/12/06 13:59

"Richard Crowley" wrote ...
> "Rôgêr" wrote...
>> Please, no lectures on using crappy equipment, it's what I have to
>> work with. But we started this evening doing a live show at one of
>> our leased access stations. Problem is, the way it's set up, as soon
>> as *any* video signal hits the wire, it switches immediately to it.
>> When I turn the Videonics on, we (along with our millions of viewers
>> *heh*) see the Videonics splash screen. Anybody know how to turn on
>> the mixer without having to show the splash screen?
>
> Yeah, we started out with the Videonics MX-1 switcher
> before we gave up on it.
>
> I don't understand why the startup splash screen is a problem?
> The obvious quesiton you didn't answer is: why you don't
> turn on the switcher *before* you go on the air?

Oh, I see that you are saying that there is some kind of
automatic switch at the other end. In that case, unplug
the wire until you are ready to take the channel. If they
want to engineer their system in such a goofy way, that
is their problem. You can only do what you can do.

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