Product specifications

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Control Apple design keyboard,
mouse, mouse pad and
color keycaps
The keyboard is for typing commands; the
mouse selects and drags items displayed on the
UI monitor; the keycaps show the commands
mapped to each key.
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Control
Record
Playback
Dongle A ÒkeyÓ that provides access to the system
software.
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Record
Playback
AirPlay MP remote
control (optional)
Manual user interface for controlling the system
remotely using buttons.
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Serial port devices Devices for communicating messages or system
data.
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Control
Record
Playback
Customer-supplied
printer
Prints system data (for example, data in bins
and playlists).
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Record
Playback
Modem (optional for any
channel)
Sends and receives electronic mail messages and
Þles over telephone lines.
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Record
(channel
with
database)
Timecode In (customer-
supplied house or master
clock)
The timecode is connected to the Avid Media
Processor, decks, audio, and external devices.
The timecode is used to synchronize all of the
input data to a common clock time.
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Monitors Display video and information required to run
the system.
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Control UI monitor (high-
resolution, color
multisync monitor)
Displays the central user interface, which
includes a menu bar for entering commands to
operate the system, bins displaying events, and
playlists showing the events to air on each
channel.
Record/playback channels: Connect to the record/
engineering monitor, which shows the UI for
one record/playback channel at a time.
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Table 3-3 Multichannel AirPlay MP Channel Components (Continued)
Channel: Component Purpose of Component See: