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2) Select the bank and page of scene buttons on the scene panel where you want to store the
sniffed scenes.
3) Highlight the scene button where you want to store the first scene.
4) Click on the
Rec S
button to go into record mode - it will flash.
5) Run the scene on the external desk.
6) Press the flash button on the external desk for the channel you have selected for
Record
Scene,
or push its slider up above 00% and then back down again. That scene will then be
recorded to the scene button and ShowMagic will then automatically highlight the next
scene button on the scene panel, ready to store the next sniffed scene.
7) Repeat steps 5 and 6 above for all the scenes that you want to sniff and record.
8) When you have finished recording scenes by sniffing DMX, click on the
Rec S
button to
turn record mode off - it will stop flashing - and then right-click on the
Rec S
button to
change it back to
Rec M
,
Rec T
or
Rec F
.
By using the above system, you only need select a page of scene buttons and the first empty scene
of your choice on that page, select record mode with the
Rec S
button, and then you need not
access the ShowMagic desk again to record as many sniffed scenes from the external lighting desk
as you want - all the scenes can be selected and recorded by just using the external desk.
Scene Generator Function
Normally, when creating scenes you would select a fixture, or group of fixtures, highlight a function
fader such as Gobo, Color etc. by clicking on it, hold down
[Shift]
to call up the
Preset
panel on the
right, click on the desired preset and the function fader for that fixture, or for all the fixtures in that
group, would then be set to that preset. You could then use the
Rec
button on the scene panel to
record that setting to a scene button. You would then repeat this process for creating other scenes for
all, or some, of the other available presets.
However, if there are a lot of presets available for each function on a fixture, or group of fixtures,
the above could prove a laborious process, as there could potentially be very many scenes to record
one by one! For this reason a ‘scene generator’ function has been included in ShowMagic that can
automatically generate all the possible scenes for each function (using all the available presets for
that function) for any fixture or selected group of the same fixtures. This eliminates the need for you
to create each of these scenes manually.
Example:
Here’s an example of how to use this function:
1) Using the demo desk, go to the patch screen and assign Martin MiniMac Profile (Mode 2)
fixtures to fixture faders 13, 14, 15 and 16.
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