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Subject: Re: [LCtalk] another "feature request"
From: Fokko van Duin
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:08:34 +0100

At 11:08 +0100 04-03-2004, MisterJ wrote:
I know I keep asking for all sorts of features, but that's just to make the product even beter then it already is ;)

In theatre, it often happens that the intensity of a licht channel is not right from the first time. For example it is 80%, but it should be 90%.. We try that out, it seems ok, and then the director says "ok, that should be 90% for every cue where it was 80%". That is not to much work with a bit of cut and paste, but it would be very easy to have a CLI command like

q1.1-25.3c8=90%

saying "from que 1.1 to 25.3 set channel 8 to 90%".

It would be a bit impractical and dangerous to read all cues to your computer, modify channel 8 in all cues, and write it back to the box. But..

How about just setting the master intensity of channel 8 to 110%?

More solutions:

For any loaded cue you can always correct one or more channels, by typing e.g. +10 you raise the DMX value by 10.

You can modify a channel or selection of channels in the cuelist editor by using the wheel on the control panel, but most people do not know that if you select a range of cells (say channel 8 in all steps), and you change the wheel (or type a new DMX value) -all- cells will be changed! So changing your 80% to 90% can be done very quickly.

Also in this case typing +10 means add 10 to previous value (and yes, -10 means subtract 10 ;-)

I hope this helps,

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Fokko van Duin,                     Creators of the LanBox-LC
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