 Hi, my name is Andy Colborne. I'm the training manager here at Riedel. Welcome to the Riedel Academy to go a short video that will help you understand how to get a certain function working in your Riedel product. If you want to go a bit deeper and find out more about the technology that makes our systems work, then please do head over to the Riedel website and click on the Academy section. There we have all kinds of sessions from webinars to presentations, workshops, interactive online trainings. We also do in-person trainings. So thank you for watching this video and we really hope to see you soon. Thank you for watching the Riedel Director how to video series. In this video, we will cover the key function, call to conference. In a theater, broadcast or live event environment, we have many users that need to communicate within specific groups. We can use the call to conference function to accomplish this workflow and we can treat a conference like a party line. We typically have a production channel for all users to listen to the show caller and multiple other party lines for the video engineering team, the camera operators, the audio team and the lighting team. Conferences allow groups of three or more people to communicate effectively so the entire team can receive updates, troubleshoot problems and hear cues as needed. Let's take a look at how to program a conference on panels, a blero and a four wire tie so we can interface with third party devices. Go to the groups and conference tab. Here you can create, edit and delete conferences that are in your config file. If you're interested in learning about groups, please check out the how to video about groups. I have some conferences already created. Here you can see I have a production and an audio channel. To create a new conference, click add comp. This pulls up the properties window. Here you can create your name for your conference and the eight character label that will show up on the panel. When you are finished, click OK. To program a key function for a call to conference, simply drag and drop the appropriate conference you want to add to the key panel. You can see my naming structure is different so that you can differentiate between the two keys. You can also right click and click call to conference. This will pull up the properties window where you can select the destination. Be sure to select a destination or you will not be able to save the changes. You can also disable and enable talk and listen privileges by unchecking the box. If a user does not need talk privileges on this conference, you can go to the general keys to change the key label, the 16 character subtitle for your 1200 series panels or the key mode. If you're interested in learning more about key modes, check out our other video, which will outline what those key modes are. Click OK to save your changes. Remember when programming a Bolero belt pack, it is essentially a six key wireless panel. Find a port with Bolero programmed on it in the network reports tab and double click. You can simply drag and drop your conferences onto the Bolero keys. You can also right click to add the function to add a call to conference command to a four wire tie for third party interfaces. Double click on the four wire you wish to assign the command to in the network reports tab. Here we have a camera party line that we wish to interface with. As you can see, there are three virtual functions that appear on the right side. Always. We always want to trigger this command Vox. This will only trigger the command if we break the Vox threshold, which you can edit in the properties of the port and on call. This will only trigger the command if a call associated to this port is triggered to program a call to conference on a four wire. We want to use the Vox trigger. This ensures that there is no audio being transmitted into the matrix when there is no active communication coming in the four wire port. This helps eliminate any noise coming from a third party device. Simply drag and drop the conference you want in your four wire tie into the Vox virtual function. And now you are ready to interface with your third party device. Thank you for watching these examples of the call to conference function. Remember, there are many different ways to program key functions in director. Feel free to share your workflow in the comments and remember to subscribe to read all communications to see more tutorials and new content in the future.