Re: [LCtalk] First experiences

[Dennis Peeters]

On 22 Feb 2005 at 12:34, Fokko van Duin wrote:
> It sounds as the update thread in LCedit+ was not working anymore, 
> what LanBox type, LCedit+ version on what platform do you use?

It's a lanbox-LCM, LCedit+ 3.2.1 (bought it just last week) controlled 
by a MAC G3 powerbook via USB (cardbus card)


> > And some general 'theatre minded" comments.
> > - I miss a reset button/keycommand (as in: reset all channels to 
> > active cue values, or (better still) per channel in the layer 
> > fadetime). I'm currently using the go button for this, but if you got 
> > some long fadetimes it gets kind of annoying.
>
> I am not sure what you mean, but if you type v alt-<enter> you set the 
> selection of a layer to the current mixer values.

That's not what I mean. Let me give an example: I'm in cue 666.5, which 
has a fade time of 30 seconds I think the light is to bright on a 
perticular spot on the stage , so I adjust some percentages. Later on 
in the scene I realize that that light was there for a reason, so I 
want to reset it to the stored value. On a spark or photon I press 
reset, and that's that, the lights fade in again, in the lanbox I press 
go, 666.5 fades in in 30 seconds and the scene is already over. Or I 
disable fades, and it goes back on in 0 seconds which is a bit crude. 
Do you understand my question now ?.


> > - Same for previous cue (in layer fadetime).
>
> Previous Cue key is on PC ctrl-alt-minus on Mac cmd-alt-minus. You can 
> assign e.g. a function key for this.

I'd like it to go back one step in the fade time selected in the 
command window. See above


> > - It might be nice to have a blackout button next to the master fader 
> > (so i can make a keycommand of it), I currently use s1-255=0 as 
> > keycommand.
>
> Make a Blackout cue, and assign it to another function key.

Again, I'd like the possibility to go back to the previously loaded cue 
after a blackout.


> > -Maybe a store keycommand (tried to make a macro, but that doesn't 
> > work).
> > - Is there a way to store active channels in a cue(-step) without 
> > switching to Edit mode (and losing your settings) ?
>
> If you use the edit mode of the cuelist editor normally (not single 
> step edit), you can always store the cuelist, as the channels in the 
> current cuestep are updated real-time. The cuelist editor is made to 
> change cues without loosing any setting, so what's up?

In Edit mode I can't use the spacebar for going through cue's as I 
stored them 1,5,10,... with comment cues inbetween. So I toggle Edit 
on/off... sometimes I forget to put it in edit-mode 'edit' my channels, 
find out it's not in edit-mode and have to do it all over again. If the 
cuelist editor was in percentages I could copy the values, I understand 
this option is already explored.
By the way, I can't get into single step edit, is this normal in v3.2.1 
? Seems like the Replace button is what I'm looking for.


> > Please tell me if you think i'm the next overdemanding 
> > theatretechnician who wants his 400 euro lanbox to behave like a 
> > Compulite spark.
>
> It can do even more :-)

And I sometimes want it to do less :-)
Sorry for the hassle, these are wishes, not demands. I think you make a 
great piece of kit, and I'm just getting to grips with the lanbox 
possibilities and impossiblities.