SCANNY
1.1.0 beta 15
1.1.0 beta 15Setup dropDATE09 OCT 2026CHANGES14BETA
SETUP PUSH in one press to every camera at once, MENU User Setups Load and Save from Scanny, one-click engineering settings, live fiber levels (FBS RX / FCA RX) per camera, and a PATCH CAMERA column you can size and sort.
SAFETY 01
On-air cameras are skipped, not asked about
Setup Push and the MENU never ask "are you sure". A camera ON AIR is skipped by itself, its row says so, and one click sends later; the click checks again and still sends nothing while it is on air.
NEW 02
Drop a setup file on any ALEXA
Drag an .stp from Finder onto an ALEXA's tile, list row, the Wall, the CAMERA page, a PATCH row or a MAP node. SETUP PUSH opens, saves the file and ticks the cameras you dropped on. Nothing is sent until you press INSTALL. While a push runs, a drop waits. SHOW never takes a drop.
Live fiber levels per camera
See the actual fiber light levels, live from the base station: FBS RX and FCA RX for every camera on fiber. They show on the Wall tiles, the CAMERA page, the Wall's FIBER view, PATCH, MAP and SHOW, every 2 s while on screen. A low or dropping level turns amber and says which end to check first.
IMPROVED 08
READY or why not, per camera
Before you drop, each camera shows READY, or the reason it can't take the file now: ON AIR, LINK DOWN, QUIET, LOCKED, HELD, PVW or TALLY ?. A camera needs a live control link to take a setup file.
Where the file installs
After INSTALL, Scanny reads the camera's own list back and shows the name it lists: "on CAM 3 · internal · NAME". Setup files go to the camera's internal storage. On the camera: Setup › User Setups Installed.
PATCH: a CAMERA column you can size and sort
PLOT is now CAMERA. Drag its edge to make the names wider or narrower; double-click it to fit the longest name. Click any column head to sort, click again to reverse. The # / A–Z switch sorts the camera names by number or by letter. One head showing on two base stations is now caught.
SETUP PUSH: one press, every camera at once
No typing and no pop-ups. Press INSTALL LOAD (or Return) and every ticked camera gets the file at once; each one loads the moment its own copy is in, without waiting for the others. A camera ON AIR gets nothing and its row says so, with SEND for later. TALLY ? waits the same way; its SEND goes on your click. REC and PVW store the file and offer LOAD. A camera that already has a different file with that name has its old copy saved to this Mac first. The done line says how many loaded and how long it took; UNDO is on each row, and UNDO ALL puts every camera back.
MENU › Setup › User Setups: Load and Save from Scanny
No more CAM ONLY here. Load shows the setup the camera is running. Open it and the camera's own list comes up: one click on a name loads it, with the camera's current setup backed up first so UNDO puts it back. Save is SAVE AS: the name is filled in, one click stores it on the camera, then it shows in Load. A name already on the camera is never replaced. A camera ON AIR, in REC or in PVW gets nothing and the row says LOCKED.
A LOAD confirms itself, quietly
After a LOAD, Scanny reads back what the camera is running, with no question: LOADED, or amber NOT CONFIRMED if the camera doesn't say within 90 s. A frame-rate change that drops the link while the setup loads no longer shows FAILED.
Engineering settings are one click
No more typing the camera's name to change an engineering setting. Off air it is one click; on air, in REC or in PVW it stays locked.
RCPs: WRITE ANYWAY is one click
In APPLY, a panel Scanny can't tell is in use now has a WRITE ANYWAY button instead of a name to type. A panel known to be on air still gets nothing.
FIXED 03
SETUP PUSH: LOAD uses the camera's own file name
An ALEXA 35 keeps a setup as NAME.STP. SETUP PUSH asked for NAME, so the camera stored the file but said no such file to LOAD, and the push read 0 of 1 loaded. LOAD, the backup copy to the Mac, UNDO and a re-push now use the name exactly as the camera lists it. The done line is amber unless every camera got the file, and a failed row says why first.
The done line counts every camera that has the file
A camera whose LOAD failed after the install still has the file. It now counts as on the camera and the LOAD problem shows on its own: "DONE · 3 of 3 · 1 LOAD FAILED". An install that timed out but shows in the camera's list reads NOT CONFIRMED, not FAILED. A drop whose file is refused keeps the reason on screen and ticks nothing.
Keeps the 12 MB setup file limit
Carries the beta 14 fix: setup files up to 12 MB, so ALEXA 35 setups with looks (about 5 MB) import and install.