Jands Vista I3, User Manual

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Adding fixtures to the patch Patching your rig
Choosing a fixture from the Factory list
To add a fixture from the Factory list:
1.
Click the ‘+’ symbol beside ‘Factory’ in the Fixture Type box. Vista displays
a list of manufacturer’s folders.
2.
Click the ‘+’ symbol beside the name of the manufacturer you want, to
display the list of fixtures in that folder.
3.
Scroll down the list until you find the fixture you want.
Adding the fixture to the patch panel
Once you’ve selected the fixture you want, there are two ways to add it to the
patch panel:
•
you can drag and drop one or more fixtures onto a specific
DMX location on the panel, or
•
you can use the Patch tab to place multiple copes of the
fixture onto the patch panel.
Dragging and dropping individual fixtures
To patch fixtures this way, just click on the name of the fixture in the Fixture type
box, type a number in the ‘Quantity’ box and drag the fixture(s) over to the spot
on the patch panel where you want it.
When you ‘drop’ the fixture, Vista fills the required number of DMX channels
with that fixture’s details. This example shows 8 Vari*lite VL2500 spot fixtures
that use 22 DMX channels each, dropped onto channel 1:
Once you’ve dropped a fixture onto the patch panel you can move it around to
any channel by clicking on it and dragging it to a new location.
Vista represents the fixture as a solid coloured bar with an ID number before the
name. The bar covers as many DMX channels as the fixture needs, and some
fixtures will take up more channels than others.
A solid colour shows that this fixture is currently selected. If you click anywhere
else in the patch panel, Vista de-selects the fixture and makes the colour
transparent to show that it’s no longer selected.
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