There were 2 things that would have made our life a lot better:
1. Scenes should have a default sub-master of their own. Many of our scenes has all the lights on in them and then the director says: "Great look but can you make it a darker on this scene". If there was a sub-master on the scene (say below the disable all fixture channels button), I could just drag that down. Instead I have to click on every fixture and adjust it, taking a long time.
2. Levels of Sub-masters on the virtual console is not saved in the project, they always start at 255. We use a few set-up pages with frames where all the fixtures are mapped out with various click & go and other sliders/buttons controlling the lights. This makes it easier to interactively program. The frames then get sub-masters so I can remove them from the light feed and run the programmed scenes. When I save and re-open then the sub-masters are all up again causing the fixtures to do what the frame says. I need to go to each sub-master and drag it down. This caused a problem one night when there was a lot of light on stage during the performance due to this override, before I worked it out.
Theatre sho report back - general
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david garyga
For number 1, there is also a "copy values to every fixture" button in the scene editor.
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Chris Laurie
That is a very bad idea in my set-up as the scene contains about 20 odd fixtures with a mixture of channels and functionality. If you want to screw up a scene do this across all the fixtures, I learnt that the hard way.
You can carefully paste a fixture to like fixtures but remember the colour is not the same so it also wont work - I only want to reduce the intensity over all the fixtures.
Not sure if channel groups will work but I will give them a try.
You can carefully paste a fixture to like fixtures but remember the colour is not the same so it also wont work - I only want to reduce the intensity over all the fixtures.
Not sure if channel groups will work but I will give them a try.