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Quickies
Trigger a Countup Clock
 Use a GPI to trigger a counter display to start counting up. Create a Macro that sets that GPI out. Post-Attach the Macro to every button on the Pgm/Pst A-Bkgd, and the [cut] and [auto tran] buttons as well. Then you'll always know how far into an item you are, or how long you've been on the same boring shot.
Thanks to Ken McAdams for this idea.
A Big Hand for Grass Valley
 To pack so much into the Kalypso, a few compromises had to be made. One was the idea of "Modifiers" - you hold down one button to change the action of another button. Examples of this are the [Shift] and [Alt Buses] modifiers. The problem is, sometimes you don't have two hands free. And sometimes, you even need three hands; consider the case where you need to simultaneously press [Shift], a Keyer Source, and the [Clr WkBfr] button. Unbelievable!
So, create a Macro that (in the Menu) changes all eight busses of an M/E to have a "Shifted" Shift Preference. The Macro then pauses for three seconds, and then sets them all back to "Unshifted". Attach this Macro to a button on the M/E (those "User Wipe" buttons have a lot to do, don't they?). Now, initiating this Macro is like a temporary Shift Lock (for three seconds), allowing one-handed selection. "Shift" may not be a problem on some busses (because of the the new DPOP action in version 10.2), but this concept can be extended to the A-Bkgd and Utility-1 rows.
Thanks to Danny Skarka for this idea.
Browse around...
Some of the ideas in the "User Prefs" or "Suite Prefs" pages could be classified as Tricks - things to help you work around something. Check out those pages, too. And the Effects page is worth a look.
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