Status Panels in Copy Mode

Status Panels In Copy Mode

When Platinum switches to COPY or READ mode, the icons and labels for all layers and channels in Status panels change to cyan to show the active layers and channels from the note or copy event. Channels in use by the note are highlighted in bright cyan, whilst default channels are shown by dull grey-cyan icons. For example, assume a note was created with the parameters shown in the previous example. If this note was recalled, the top-level status and "R2 - Status" panel would look like this:

If any channels or layers are used in the current event, this can be seen in the background of the icon, while the foreground shows which channels are used by the copied event.

In This example we are copying the R1 layer from an event which uses the RGBV channels of the R1 six vector, along with the R1 bezier and HSL output controls. The current event uses the R and M channels from the six vector, along with the bezier and HSL controls. However, these are not currently being applied to the output. If you press Enter at this point you will lose these channels and controls from the underlying event and they will be replaced with the copied event.

In COPY or READ mode, clicking on the icons or labels will toggle them between the copy event (cyan) and the list event (yellow). The first time you click on an item (layer, channel or element), everything outside of this item is turned off and so becomes grey or yellow. Only this item (and all channels/elements within this item) is still cyan and being copied. For example, clicking on the "R1 Layer 1" button, will turn off copy mode for "R1 Layer 2" and all other layers.

Subsequent clicks on items will toggle that item on and off, without affecting any other items. So, for example, clicking on the "G" will turn off the Green channel, and push the cyan into the background, indicating that there is a copied channel available but turned off. Clicking on the bezier will toggle between the bezier from the current event (yellow in the foreground) and the bezier from the copied event. The panel will now look like this:

Individual elements within a channel can also be toggled. For example, clicking on the key in R1 Layer 1 Red to turn them off will take only the output primary and HSL correction from the note, but apply them to the key in the list.

You can turn on as many layers, channels or elements as desired. Pressing ENTER will commit the appropriate items to the current event.