Clarity
Hints and Tips
Operator Manual
Page 211
In the Performance Window create rows that just contain "looks". You can fire an entire row with
just one button push which might contain for example a media clip and also a colour cue for your
movers.
You can just fire a blank row to effectively release all columns. If there are some columns you
don't want to release, then on the blank row, right-click the relevant cells and choose “replace
with blank cell”.
40.5
FLASHING A CUE
You can achieve toggle on/off very easily by recording a cue-list containing a single “halt” cue
and then setting the cue-list to “release at end”. Set the fade time and release times to 0 seconds.
Pressing the Go button will turn on the cue on the first press and release it on the second press.
40.6
QUICK RECORD
When you press record, you can press the flash button of a playback to record the cue on that
playback.
40.7
SNAPPING FORWARDS OR BACKWARDS
Press
Function
+
to snap to the next cue.
Press
Function
+
II I
to snap to the previous cue.
40.8
OPERATE CLARITY LIKE A MANUAL DESK
If you want to work in the same fashion as an LSC maXim console or other similar manual
console then you can simply record each of your looks to separate playback.
Now use the faders to playback your looks and set the level of each one live on stage for a
combined look. To record the current on stage look, press
Record
and select the "Blocking All
Fixtures" option at the bottom right of the pop-up box. This records a snapshot of the lights on
stage, just like a maXim does, complete with the proportional levels.
40.9
PROGRAMMER OVERRIDE
If you are not familiar with a “Programmer” type of lighting controller you might often get
caught out when a playback does not do what you expect it to do because you have some (or
all) of its channels still being controlled by the programmer. This is because the programmer
has a higher priority than a playback so it prevents the playback from controlling the channels.
You can overcome this problem by setting the programmer to the same priority as a playback.
Select “Show/Preferences” and tick the “Programmer operates at normal priority” check box.
Now the programmer can be overridden by a playback on a Latest Take Precedence basis.
40.10
MEDIA SERVER THUMBNAILS
The most common tech support issue we get with Clarity is how to make Media Server thumbnails
work.
The great part is that with Clarity it is all automatic, so there is nothing to set up in the Clarity
software. However there are a few tricks with the computer and/or the Media Server itself.
Firstly check that you can control the Media Server via Art-Net. If not then you have a major
network issue that needs to be resolved first. This is outside the scope of this article. If you have
Art-Net control but no thumbnails then read on.
1) IP addresses. For thumbnail exchange to work both the Clarity computer and the Media Server
must be on the same IP address ranges. We suggest using the 2.xxx.xxx.xxx range. If you are
not familiar with how to define IP addresses here are some settings to try.
Clarity Computer
IP Addr: 2.0.0.101
Subnet : 255.0.0.0
Gateway 2.0.0.201
