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10.5 Updating Palettes

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10.6 Copying and moving Palettes

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10.7 Removing attributes from Palettes

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10.8 Linked Palettes

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10.9 Viewing / Editing Palette contents

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10.10Using Palettes with times

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10.10.1 Using FAN

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10.11Making Palettes into Cue Stacks

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10.12Selecting Palettes from the keypad

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10.13Merging of Palettes from another show

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10.14Modifying Palettes in the personality

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10.15Grabbing Palettes from DMX input

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11 FX Engine

11.1 Adding in FX

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11.1.1 FX Speed & Size

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11.1.2 FX base values

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11.1.3 FX add modes

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11.1.4 FX Spread (offsets over heads)

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11.1.5 FX Parts

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11.1.6 FX Segments

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11.1.7 FX Direction & Inversion

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11.1.8 Pulse Width

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11.1.9 FX fade times

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11.1.10 Initial spreads

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11.1.11 FX on CMY and RGB fixtures

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11.1.12 Flicker FX

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11.1.13 Multiple FX

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11.1.14 Joining / Splitting multiple FX

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11.1.15 Modifying FX for selected Heads

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11.1.16 Changing FX

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11.1.17 FX Reordering

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11.1.18 Blocking FX

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11.1.19 One Shot FX

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11.2 Generating user FX

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11.3 Editing user FX

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11.4 Palette FX

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11.5 FX colour flicks

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11.6 FX using base colour

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11.7 FX Window

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11.8 Importing and Exporting the FX Library

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Содержание MagicQ Pro Series

Страница 1: ...MagicQ User Manual i MagicQ User Manual Distributor www techni lux com Phone 407 857 8770 Fax 407 857 8771 Email sales techni lux com...

Страница 2: ...MagicQ User Manual ii REVISION HISTORY NUMBER DATE DESCRIPTION NAME v1 6 6 9 06 03 2015 ChamSys...

Страница 3: ...ection 6 1 11 Care of your MagicQ console 6 1 12 Safety Information 6 2 Installing MagicQ Software Drivers 7 2 1 MagicQ software 7 2 2 MagicDMX 7 2 3 MagicQ Wings Interfaces 7 2 4 MagicQ on Windows 7...

Страница 4: ...t Buttons 26 5 1 2 Windows 27 5 1 3 Head Control 28 5 1 4 Editor Buttons 28 5 1 5 Playback 29 5 2 Keyboard Keypad Select Confirm Windows 29 5 3 Common Actions 29 5 3 1 Items 29 5 3 2 Setting the value...

Страница 5: ...for Dimmers 41 6 12 Locating Heads 42 6 13 Modifying Attributes 42 6 14 Recording a Palette 44 6 15 Adding in FX 44 6 16 Recording a Cue 44 6 17 Recording a Cue Stack Chase or Theatre Stack 45 6 18 Se...

Страница 6: ...g between CMY and colour wheel Heads 58 7 21 Importing Heads 58 7 22 Exporting Heads 58 7 23 VL5 type channels split personalities 59 7 24 Merging with DMX input 59 7 25 Customising Locate Default Hig...

Страница 7: ...te values using the keypad 70 9 11 Selecting individual Heads 71 9 11 1 Single Mode 71 9 11 2 Pair 71 9 11 3 Odd Even 71 9 11 4 Segments 72 9 11 5 All 72 9 11 6 Sub selecting Groups 72 9 11 7 Sub sele...

Страница 8: ...1 1 FX Speed Size 84 11 1 2 FX base values 84 11 1 3 FX add modes 84 11 1 4 FX Spread offsets over heads 84 11 1 5 FX Parts 85 11 1 6 FX Segments 85 11 1 7 FX Direction Inversion 87 11 1 8 Pulse Width...

Страница 9: ...ns 97 12 9 1 Record Short cuts 97 12 9 2 Masking 98 12 9 3 Options 98 12 10Active 98 12 11Removing channels from the Programmer 99 12 11 1 Removing channels using the REMOVE button 99 12 11 2 Removing...

Страница 10: ...tensities in Cues 109 15 Cue Stacks 110 15 1 Cue Stack Window 110 15 2 Chase Timing 111 15 3 Cue Timing 111 15 3 1 Cue Timing Example 111 15 3 2 The Halt field 112 15 3 3 Cue Delay and Fade times 112...

Страница 11: ...12 Global Tap to Time 123 16 5 Playbacks Window 124 16 5 1 Testing playbacks 124 16 5 2 Naming playbacks 124 16 5 3 Copying and moving playbacks 124 16 5 4 Removing playbacks 124 16 5 5 Playback Rate...

Страница 12: ...ot used 131 17 3 5 Cue stack is a Prog Master 131 17 3 6 Intensity Master to 200 131 17 4 Activate Release 132 17 4 1 Halt at last step 132 17 4 2 Release after last step 132 17 4 3 Release resets to...

Страница 13: ...8 7 Audio parameter 2 137 17 8 8 Rate Divisor 137 17 9 Step View Defaults only 137 17 9 1 Step controlled as a chase 137 17 9 2 Step follows last 137 17 9 3 Step halts before executing 138 17 9 4 Zero...

Страница 14: ...Master 143 18 10Advanced activate and release options 143 19 Live Programming Busking 144 19 1 Adding individual channels using preset faders 144 19 2 Over ride take over 144 19 3 Viewing Cues and Cu...

Страница 15: ...se Sunset astronomical 156 21 3 Automated Start of Playbacks Executes 156 21 4 Keyboard macros 156 21 4 1 Quick Macro Toolbar 156 21 4 2 Keyboard Macro Timing 157 21 4 3 Recording Playback faders 157...

Страница 16: ...and Fill Down 180 22 5 3 1 Particle bounce 182 22 6 Multi Element Heads 182 22 7 Making Grids of Groups 182 22 7 1 Auto Groups 182 22 8 Programming LED using standard FX 182 22 8 1 Using groups auto g...

Страница 17: ...ads 193 24 4 Removing old heads 193 24 5 General View 193 24 5 1 Names 194 24 5 2 DMX 194 24 5 3 Params 194 24 5 4 Options 194 24 5 5 Multi 195 24 5 6 Media 195 24 6 Channels View 195 24 7 Ranges View...

Страница 18: ...27 6 3 Inhibit Outputs 213 27 7 Multi Console Programming 213 27 7 1 Checking Slave synchronisation 214 27 8 Selective Channel Control 214 27 8 1 Selecting which console controls which channels 215 2...

Страница 19: ...control using Magic Wand simulator 231 30 ChamSys Remote Protocol Commands 232 30 1 Remote Playback Commands 232 30 1 1 Remote programming commands 233 30 1 2 Attribute numbers 234 31 Controlling Mag...

Страница 20: ...251 35 5 Learn Timing 251 35 6 Timecode Generation 251 35 7 Timecode Re transmit 252 36 Remote Input port 253 36 1 Connection MagicQ Consoles MagicQ PC Wing Compact and MagicQ MaxiWing 253 36 2 Conne...

Страница 21: ...Grid Into a Visualisation 267 38 2 16 Visualiser Settings 267 38 2 17 Plots 268 39 Blind Visualisation 269 40 Using MagicQ with other Visualisers 270 40 1 Connecting to a Visauliser 270 40 2 Capture 2...

Страница 22: ...o pre Pro 2010 Operating System 282 41 5 3 Compact MQ60 MQ70 Operating System 283 41 5 4 Monitor settings on MagicQ PC Mac 283 41 5 5 Moving Windows to the External Monitor 283 41 5 6 Additional Cue S...

Страница 23: ...ct heads on include 290 41 9 5 Keypad always selects heads 290 41 9 6 Keypad Syntax Theatre Patch 290 41 9 7 Encoder Mode 291 41 9 8 Swap pan and tilt encoders 291 41 9 9 Swap Encoder direction 291 41...

Страница 24: ...tton function 297 41 13 1 Split Crossfade on PB9 PB10 297 41 13 2 Crossfade controls Playback 298 41 13 3 Stomp Playbacks 298 41 13 4 Intensity HTP FX can subtract 298 41 13 5 Go reasserts channels 29...

Страница 25: ...touch monitor 303 41 15 10 Remote trigger type 303 41 15 11 Remote trigger action 303 41 15 12 Audio input 304 41 15 13 Audio Min Max Level 304 41 15 14 Parallel Port Address 304 41 15 15 Monitor Sett...

Страница 26: ...07 41 18 4 Touch Screen 307 41 18 5 Encoders 307 41 18 6 Faulty Faders Mask 307 41 18 7 Power Fail Detection 308 41 18 8 Screen Save 308 41 18 9 Reduced rate output 308 41 18 10 Movie Buffer frames 0...

Страница 27: ...10Transferring files over network 316 42 11Status Window 316 42 12Backup Archives 317 42 13Using shows on different MagicQ products and show versions 317 42 13 1 Loading a show onto a smaller console...

Страница 28: ...ses unexpected window changes 333 46 5 MagicQ console not booting 333 46 6 MagicQ console blank screen 333 46 7 MagicQ console white screen 334 46 8 MagicQ console distorted screen 334 46 9 MagicQ con...

Страница 29: ...e of its equipment The equipment is designed to meet all current regulation requirements in the UK for electrical products None of the equipment or software supplied by ChamSys Ltd may be used in any...

Страница 30: ...FX library Immediate control of any chase FX parameter Fully featured and enabled PC Mac version Comprehensive multi console networking Remote control via consoles tablets and phone applications Expor...

Страница 31: ...liable operating environment for programming and playback of shows A show can be programmed on one model and then played back on a different model MagicQ supports 202 playbacks in total which can be b...

Страница 32: ...acks one bank of 12 fader playbacks and three banks of 12 button playbacks The MagicQ MQ100 Pro E is an entry level version of the MQ100 Pro console with reduced universes and connectivity The picture...

Страница 33: ...for use with PC Mac The MagicQ Mini Wing MagicQ PC Wing and MagicQ Maxi Wing connect directly to a PC or Mac The PC or Mac runs the MagicQ software and processes the Cues whilst the wing acts as a ph...

Страница 34: ...ms requiring all 64 universes on DMX512 multiple interfaces may be used connected via network switches 1 7 Powering Up To power up the console press the power switch on the rear panel The blue LEDs on...

Страница 35: ...Un interruptible Power Supply 1 11 Care of your MagicQ console To keep your MagicQ console in best condition please observe the following recommendations Keep liquids away from the MagicQ Drinks spli...

Страница 36: ...ives data from MagicQ 2 3 MagicQ Wings Interfaces MagicQ Wings and MagicQ DMX interfaces Dual DMX Audio MIDI SMPTE use a USB chipset made by FTDI which requires the installation of the correct drivers...

Страница 37: ...Manager lists all the devices on your system The MagicQ device is normally listed at the bottom under Universal Serial Bus Controllers but it may be under any other section It may be listed as a Cham...

Страница 38: ...MagicQ User Manual 9 348...

Страница 39: ...e device then right click and press Update Driver Select Browse My Computer for Driver Software Locate and Install Driver Software Manually Do not let Windows search for a driver Select the option Let...

Страница 40: ...MagicQ User Manual 11 348 Select Have Disk If you cannot find Have Disk then click on items in the list until you get it...

Страница 41: ...348 For PC Wing Compacts the drivers are in c Program Files ChamSys Ltd Magicq MagicQ Wing Drivers PC Wing Compact CDM 2 08 24 WHQL Certified ftdibus inf PC Wing Compacts require MagicQ software vers...

Страница 42: ...MagicQ User Manual 13 348 For all other products the drivers are in c Program Files ChamSys Ltd Magicq MagicQ Wing Drivers FTDI chamsys inf...

Страница 43: ...SX whereby the mouse keyboard become unresponsive Due to Apple compatibility issues MagicQ version 1 5 9 9 or higher is required when running on OSX 10 9 Mavericks We recommend you disable Computer sl...

Страница 44: ...ng the MagicQ folder writeable If you get the message Cannot write file when trying to save a show file or your settings changes are not saved then check that the MagicQ folder and all its subfolders...

Страница 45: ...MagicQ either through an apt repository where you can get automatic updates or by manually downloading the installer To install using the repository to your system run the following command to add ou...

Страница 46: ...aces are supported on Universe 1 When MagicQ PC or Mac is installed for the first time it will show a window with choices of demo shows This window can be hidden on subsequent starts by pressing the H...

Страница 47: ...ly record more than one cue to a Playback fader To remove the Cues from a fader press REM and press the S button of the Playback fader you wish to remove Cues from To name a fader press SET and press...

Страница 48: ...r MagicDMX interface is connected to MagicQ then the fixture will be controlled on the 1st output The preset faders can be used to change the values of individual attributes Use SHIFT and the faders t...

Страница 49: ...mode MagicQ it is not possible to record or make changes to the show data MagicQ will not save the show files status files Changes e g change of chase speed will be lost when the application is stoppe...

Страница 50: ...rting Playbacks Playback Synchronisation Multi Programming Triggering of playbacks using DMX input Mouse control of pan tilt only supported when connected to a MagicQ Wing with encoders Audio control...

Страница 51: ...ew shows to simplify and speed up show program ming Show files can be copied using USB memory sticks or the network can be used to access the file system of MagicQ consoles When the user saves the sho...

Страница 52: ...be raised above zero which is still above zero Playbacks that are bumped in using ADD or SWAP buttons automatically become the last active playback until the button is released The type of channel us...

Страница 53: ...ole supports multiple pages of Playbacks enabling Playback faders to have different functions depending on the current page Typically one page is used for each song in a show The current page is selec...

Страница 54: ...or example for changing the colour or gobo of intelligent heads The Programmer can be considered to be a table of channel level and active flags for each of the channels patched onto the console Initi...

Страница 55: ...ent panel views at any time it does not affect the programmed show it just determines what buttons faders and encoders are available for programming and playback 5 1 1 Touch Screen Encoders Soft Butto...

Страница 56: ...A window is displayed by pressing the appropriate window button On MagicQ PC Mac the window can be selected from the Window Menu from the toolbar Changing window does not affect programming or playbac...

Страница 57: ...the current date and time the ADD SWAP status of the console and other relevant status information The Input Display shows the data that has been currently entered through the keypad and the keyboard...

Страница 58: ...ypad to navigate around these items or whether you use the mouse touch To open the Keyboard Window at any time press SET SET To open the icon selector press SHIFT SET Confirm Windows are shown when yo...

Страница 59: ...lues Items that are coloured darker are read only and therefore cannot be set 5 3 3 Naming items Press the SET button Press the touch screen click ENTER over the item to name Enter the name on the ext...

Страница 60: ...remove multiple items highlight it is often easier to highlight the items before pressing REMOVE If you press REMOVE immediately after highlighting multiple items then the console will assume that yo...

Страница 61: ...Enter the name using the on screen keyboard or the external keyboard To move a Playback press MOVE then press the S button for the source Playback and then press the S button for the destination Play...

Страница 62: ...e last show Selecting last show will load and run the last show used on the system This option can be hidden for subsequent start ups The console remembers all windows that were open when the console...

Страница 63: ...heatre non track faders operate levels only When recording all data in the programmer is stored in recorded cues Theatre tracking faders operate levels only When recording only data in the programmer...

Страница 64: ...ly on the rear panel The four DMX outputs on the rear panel automatically output universes 1 to 4 unless they are configured otherwise The DMX will be output regardless of the Status enabled or disabl...

Страница 65: ...ce to Art Net Universe 0 and the second one to Art Net Universe 4 MagicQ includes a DMX viewer for monitoring Art Net on the Network select Tools DMX View 6 5 Connecting a MagicQ Playback Wing To conn...

Страница 66: ...t When using USB touch screens go to Setup View System View Monitors to see the status of the connected touch screens 6 6 2 Pro Operating System From MagicQ version 1 5 9 4 there is no longer support...

Страница 67: ...osen a head you will be returned to the Patch Window Press the PATCH IT soft button to patch the head You will be prompted for the number you wish to prompt and the address where you wish to patch the...

Страница 68: ...1 20 To patch a dimmer simply press CHOOSE DIM MEDIA select Generic Dimmerer and then patch one or more dimmers as above In the Patch Window all the lighter coloured fields can be configured To modif...

Страница 69: ...a patched head or dimmer simply press the TEST MODE soft button soft button encode C and the head which the cursor is over will be tested For heads it locates the fixture for dimmers it sets the dimm...

Страница 70: ...name a group at any time by keying in the name pressing SET and pressing the touch screen If you do not have a keyboard then press SET and select the group to name by pressing the touch screen or usi...

Страница 71: ...ngs all the attributes for that head into the programmer If the heads enable DMX control of the striking of the lamp then you may need to Lamp On the head in order to see the beam Select the heads and...

Страница 72: ...t button For indexed attributes such as colour wheels and gobo wheels the button associated with each encoder can be used to bump the attribute value to the next range Pressing SHIFT and the button bu...

Страница 73: ...add Once you have chosen a FX you are returned to the Prog Window Use the encoders to modify the parameters of the FX such as the speed size and spread between heads You can add multiple FX to a head...

Страница 74: ...S button of the playback To test the Cue clear the programmer by pressing CLEAR then raise the Playback fader or press the Playback flash button View the Cue Stack by selecting the Playback and press...

Страница 75: ...your show on the disk you need to press the SAVE SHOW soft button in the Setup Window Whilst programming you should regularly save your show so that if the power fails your show data is not lost You c...

Страница 76: ...the master faders are raised Note that if you have a large show file you may wish to turn auto backups off during playback Remember to turn them back on when you are programming If you get stuck at a...

Страница 77: ...patching facilities for allocating dimmers and intelligent heads to DMX channels Patching can be carried out at any time and has an immediate effect Press the PATCH button to open the Patch Window The...

Страница 78: ...hen the cursor is over the correct head Once you have chosen a head you will be returned to the Patch Window Press the PATCH IT soft button to patch the head and you will be prompted for an address to...

Страница 79: ...mmers as above In the Patch Window all the fields coloured yellow can be configured To modify a field first move the cursor to the field then input the new value using the keypad and keyboard and fina...

Страница 80: ...operated on Head numbers can also be used for selecting heads and setting intensities directly from the keypad By default MagicQ numbers in the order that they are patched starting from 1 If you expec...

Страница 81: ...ber directly e g 181 for Lee 181 For Rosco colours enter the gel number preceded by dot e g 14 for Rosco 14 For no colour enter 0 If you would prefer to use colour names rather than gel numbers then s...

Страница 82: ...et Selecting this option applies a permanent offset to the channel in the Patch rather than modifying the individual Palettes and Cues To remove the offset go to Patch View Chans and remove the offset...

Страница 83: ...the curves stored in the show heads folder In the CSV file the line after the last line of data the 257th line can hold a name for the curve which is then displayed in MagicQ The name has a maximum of...

Страница 84: ...re already channels patched then MagicQ will prompt whether you wish to continue and move the already patched channels aside If you confirm YES the already patched channels will be moved to the next f...

Страница 85: ...s marked as virtual and any DMX address you specified when you patched it will be ignored Change to the View DMX view and specify in the appropriate DMX columns the DMX address of the dimmer and the s...

Страница 86: ...ossible to then copy programming from other heads to the new heads To copy programmed data from one head to another press the SHIFT COPY HEAD PRG soft button in the HEAD VIEW then select the source he...

Страница 87: ...Y RGB data to Col Wheel rather than trying to map between the Colour Wheels This ensures that shows programmed with Cues using RGB palettes morph to Col Wheel palettes When morphing to heads with grea...

Страница 88: ...sor keys to select multiple channels You can also set up a channel so that it outputs data from an input channel except when that channel is being controlled by a playback or the programmer Set the Me...

Страница 89: ...nabled in Setup View Settings Keypad Keypad Syntax Theatre Patch When this option is set to yes the keypad can be used to patch a dimmer or moving light directly to a DMX address and head number e g 1...

Страница 90: ...cludes a mode of LED3chan with a virtual dimmer Note that Virtual Dimmer is distinct from Virtual Channels where all the channels of the head have separate DMX addresses 7 28 Patch Head Filtering In P...

Страница 91: ...ated and the fader will turn red The SQUARE OFF soft button enables fast programming of intensities Using the touch screen select the channels you wish to have at full and at zero but don t bother bei...

Страница 92: ...e supports theatre style key entry so you can set head 1 to 40 by typing 1 4 ENTER and you can set head 1 to 4 by typing 1 4 ENTER or 1 04 Note that if the Setup option Auto enter on keypad intensity...

Страница 93: ...s not modify which heads are selected This ensures that you can be busking moving heads whilst modifying individual dimmer levels at the same time However at any time you can set the levels of the int...

Страница 94: ...been previously activated in the programmer Press CLEAR before starting programming a new look 8 7 Setting levels whilst running a show The Intensities Window supports two fader views Programmer View...

Страница 95: ...ews VIEW GROUPS enables selection of heads using groups whilst VIEW HEADS enables individual selection of heads In VIEW GROUPS pressing the touch screen for a particular group selects all the heads as...

Страница 96: ...ish to record either by pressing the touch screen or by using the cursor keys and then pressing ENTER 9 2 2 Naming a Group When recording a group if you key in a name before pressing the touch screen...

Страница 97: ...st and 4th elements of currently selected heads 9 3 2 Selecting heads on the keypad without It is also possible to set the Setup Option Keypad always select head In this mode entering numbers on the k...

Страница 98: ...ttons and pressing LOCATE Only attributes of that type are located and placed in the Programmer 9 7 Modifying Attributes Intelligent heads have several different attributes typically including pan and...

Страница 99: ...ble on MagicQ consoles and on MagicQ PC Mac when connected to a MagicQ PC Wing or MagicQ MaxiWing It is not available when connected to MagicQ MiniWing or MagicQ USB interface as these products do not...

Страница 100: ...ade by the encoders or through selecting Palettes only affect the one sub selected head The head is indicated by a by the head number Once in Single mode the NEXT HEAD and PREV HEAD buttons are used t...

Страница 101: ...ds in the current selection like pressing ALL 9 11 6 Sub selecting Groups It is also possible to sub select groups When making a head selection you can choose multiple groups using SHIFT and pressing...

Страница 102: ...overall selection 9 12 Highlight Mode Highlight mode is used in conjunction with Single mode and Odd Even mode There are four possible modes of operation depending on the setting in the Setup Window...

Страница 103: ...the normal mode When you press and hold FAN you get a toolbar on the screen that gives you direct access to fanning options On MagicQ PC you can press SHIFTFAN to bring up the FAN toolbar There are 3...

Страница 104: ...2 ENTER This selects heads which are in both groups 1 and 2 And Only can be used with the THRU and operators GROUP 1 THRU 4 5 THRU 8 ENTER This select heads which are in one of the groups 1 to 4 and...

Страница 105: ...ithin the window select a palette entry That palette entry will be applied to all the selected heads In the Beam Window the first 5 soft buttons above the touch screen are used for selecting the Beam...

Страница 106: ...attribute into the beam palette You can modify the way the console records palettes using masking in the Record Options window Open the Record Options Window when recording by holding SHIFT and press...

Страница 107: ...ed simply be selecting some heads applying the palette and then re recording the palette Only the heads that are selected when you re record the palette will be modified in the palette other heads rec...

Страница 108: ...contents of the palette entry by editing the values in the spread sheet You can remove values entire heads or entire attributes from the palette entry using the REMOVE button The View Palette View Use...

Страница 109: ...delay and fade times type for example 2 4 3 5 This gives delay times of between 2 and 6 and fade times of between 3 and 8 seconds 10 11 Making Palettes into Cue Stacks You can copy one or more palette...

Страница 110: ...ta associated with the palette entry you selected into the personality file If the palette entry is already in the personality file i e there is a palette entry with the same name as the one you selec...

Страница 111: ...rog Window press the ADD FX soft button MagicQ groups FX into the categories Intensity Position Colour Beam Any Attribute User and Old MagicQ lists all of the stored Waveform FX Choose the Category an...

Страница 112: ...hat the FX uses different attributes e g you can mix a Pan Sine with a Tilt Sine Once you have chosen a FX you are returned to the Prog Window Use the encoders to modify the parameters of the FX such...

Страница 113: ...sures any other playback running an FX for those heads is over ridden 11 1 3 FX add modes It is possible to change the way that FX are added to the base values In the FX View of the Prog Window and Cu...

Страница 114: ...layed back spread over the first 3 heads and then this will repeat over the remaining selected heads i e heads 1 4 7 10 will do the same thing heads 2 5 8 11 will do the same thing When a FX part is s...

Страница 115: ...66 11 83 12 83 Table 11 3 With FX Segments 3 s 1 0 2 0 3 0 4 25 5 25 6 25 7 50 8 50 9 50 10 75 11 75 12 75 Table 11 4 With FX Parts 2 s 1 0 2 50 3 0 4 50 5 0 6 50 7 0 8 50 9 0 10 50 11 0 12 50 Table 1...

Страница 116: ...of the FX Odd Even automatically makes the odd heads go forward and the even heads go backwards Left Right splits the heads in two with the first half going forward and the second half going backwards...

Страница 117: ...e Pulse Width on Encoder C This enables the width of the FX to be altered without having to select different FX e g pulse 2 step pulse 3 step etc When set to 50 it is equivalent to a pulse 2 step When...

Страница 118: ...te different effects The flicker FX available are Flicker Random flicker above and below base level Flicker up Random flicker above the base level Flicker down Random flicker below the base level Flic...

Страница 119: ...cle can be changed into a square or diamond but not into a RGB effect 11 1 17 FX Reordering It is possible to reorder the heads in a FX without having to recreate the FX Press the REORDER FX button in...

Страница 120: ...than absolute values This enables FX to be built up quickly from existing Palettes The FX are updated each time the Palette is changed Palettes can be chosen when the FX is applied rather than having...

Страница 121: ...ation In addition any base levels for the channels that are controlled by the FX are also stored To recall the FX simply select some heads and then select the FX from the FX Window FX can be named mov...

Страница 122: ...FX In the Prog Window there are three views corresponding to the three types of data View Levels View Times and View FX Use the three top left soft buttons to select the view In the Channel Times and...

Страница 123: ...similar parameters together so for example if you touch a colour attribute or the colour attributes are loaded into the programmer IPCB means all Intensity Position Colour and Beam attributes work in...

Страница 124: ...al Times will be used for those heads and attributes whilst the General Times will be used for all other heads and attributes 12 4 3 FX The Cue stores FX information for each of the FX that is in the...

Страница 125: ...back to the summary for all selected heads It is possible to set individual times on a per attribute view but you must have some heads selected for this to work Use Remove to remove delay and fade tim...

Страница 126: ...ter For example 6 2 0 ENTER records to Playback 6 Cue Id 2 0 12 8 Snapshot Icons MagicQ stores Snapshot images of the Visualisation Media or Pixel Mapping output when recording Cues and Palettes enabl...

Страница 127: ...ess of whether they have been changed since the last Cue was record this forces a blocking Cue to be recorded with hard values Use ALL RECORD as a shortcut to select Entire State The Status Display in...

Страница 128: ...attributes of these of Intensity Position Colour or Beam Hold a soft button in the Beam Colour Position or Group windows and press REMOVE The specified attribute will be removed Hold and press REMOVE...

Страница 129: ...LUDE to set all attributes of the selected heads hard values 12 13 Copy between heads You can copy between heads using the keypad To copy the head data select some heads from the keypad press COPY and...

Страница 130: ...to set up a FX on some moving heads using blind mode configuring the speed and size before you make it live You can enter and exit blind mode with times For example press 10 BLIND to enter blind mode...

Страница 131: ...oft buttons on the top left hand side to change the views 13 1 Heads View The Heads View shows information for all of the heads patched in the show press the VIEW HEADS soft button You can request onl...

Страница 132: ...ows the actual values that are being output on the DMX or on the network Press the VIEW CHANS VIEW DMX and VIEW CHANS soft buttons Note that these values are the real output values if the output is en...

Страница 133: ...s of the stage rig constructed and viewed It also enables grids of LED or dimmers to be created for use with the in built pixel mapping Bitmap FX engine Press the VIEW PLAN soft button 13 5 1 Creating...

Страница 134: ...l heads from the patch are inserted Note that it is not necessary to have a head number assigned to every cell in the grid cells can be blank This enables the lights to be positioned in the grid in a...

Страница 135: ...ection of the heads Clicking on a blank space at the right edge of the grid will deselect the whole row regardless of the current state of selection of the heads Clicking within the grid on a blank sp...

Страница 136: ...State option when including Cues into the programmer to include the whole tracking state of a Cue The short cue ALL INCLUDE can be used to select Entire State When Cues are included into the Programme...

Страница 137: ...utton for the Playback 14 4 Making changes to multiple Cues Changes can be made to multiple Cues using the REC MERGE and REC REMOVE record options to specify a change in the programmer which is then m...

Страница 138: ...nto a Cue on a Playback without using the programmer press and hold the SELECT button of the Playback with the Cue to be modified Then use the keypad to adjust the intensity channels e g typing 1 THRU...

Страница 139: ...es in the Cue Stack including their names numbers and timing information The fields can be edited in a similar way to the Prog Window and Patch Windows The status field indicates the current status of...

Страница 140: ...and sequences to be set up The Next Cue for the last Cue in the Cue Stack defaults to being the first Cue in the Cue Stack 15 3 1 Cue Timing Example To illustrate the above Cue Timing consider a Cue S...

Страница 141: ...ndow in the Delay and Fade fields using For example 2 3 entered in the Fade field will produce an in fade of 2 seconds and an out fade of 3 seconds Only intensities times are affected Beam Colour and...

Страница 142: ...the Cue was recorded are stored into the new Cue Attributes are determined as modified if their value had been changed using an encoder using keypad entry using a range button using a palette or by a...

Страница 143: ...tracking mode then they will always be just the change values not the entire state When using Theatre Tracking mode Hog II Warp mode and Film mode MagicQ defaults the Cue Storage option Copy mode unli...

Страница 144: ...rehearsal To record a Cue into the Cue Store simply set up the required look in the programmer open the Cue Store Window press RECORD and press an empty Cue in the Cue Store Window To record a Cue int...

Страница 145: ...that are assigned to playbacks Select the Cues in the Cue Stack window and then select a playback fader as the destination By default when copying Cues MagicQ does not create new Cues it simply makes...

Страница 146: ...s enable control over other Cue Stacks from within Cue Stacks such as activation release go stop and setting level of other Cue Stacks Macros are typed into the Macro field in the Cue Stack window scr...

Страница 147: ...o the R macro now supports the parameter 0 to release itself i e R0 The G macro optionally supports two parameters separated by a The first parameter is the playback the second is the Cue ID to GO For...

Страница 148: ...nt step and the second line shows the next step 16 2 Activating and Releasing Playbacks Playbacks are activated and released by pressing the associated buttons and raising the associated faders depend...

Страница 149: ...the size and or speed of any FX recorded in the current Cue Thus for example you can set up one fader to control a pan swing and another to control a tilt swing Moving the faders to half gets a small...

Страница 150: ...current page number and name is displayed in the Status Display under the clock The current page can also be changed from the Page Window by selecting a new page or by pressing PAGE and entering the...

Страница 151: ...a large GO button below the Manual Fader is designed for theatre style playback and has the same function as the GO button on each playback If multiple SELECT buttons are held down then the Go Pause F...

Страница 152: ...so be triggered from Autom events The remote input can also be set to always tap to time the currently selected playback It is possible to set the GO button in the Master Crossfade Section to a Select...

Страница 153: ...k will be ignored This is because only one Cue Stack can be run on a playback Use the View Faders soft button to change the view in the Playbacks Window into faders rather than buttons Faders can then...

Страница 154: ...NGS For each wing section you can specify which page buttons the section is tied to To operate a section independently of any other page buttons set the tie to be itself For example to operate the upp...

Страница 155: ...t list for example songs not being used today are moved after all the pages specified in the set list file To use set lists first name all the pages in the Page Window according to the song name or se...

Страница 156: ...to No the fader does not activate the Cue Stack The activation threshold defaults to 0 It is a global setting which is set in Setup View Settings Hardware 17 1 2 Fader releases stack When set to Yes l...

Страница 157: ...at are running in the Cue Stack this includes FX from the current Cue and also any FX that are tracking from previous Cues in the Cue Stack When the fader is at 100 then the FX is the size that was re...

Страница 158: ...Flash will perform Pause instead of Go When set to Yes the settings Flash activates Stack Flash releases Stack and Flash toggles are ignored 17 2 5 Flash acts as Flash Go When set to Yes the Flash bu...

Страница 159: ...is non zero then the channels stored in the Group specified by the Group Id specify the channels that are under control of the Intensity Master Updating the channels stored within a Group updates the...

Страница 160: ...The channels stored in the first Cue are used to determine which channels are under control of the Intensity Master The actual levels of the channels in the first Cue is not important only that the Ch...

Страница 161: ...ybacks Intensity channels not used by other channels will fade out using the release time The release time also affects channels that are released from Cue steps within a Cue Stack step i e when the C...

Страница 162: ...cted by the grand master and sub master faders Channels also are affected by DBO and can be released by SHIFT RELEASE When set to No then the levels of HTP channels are not affected by the grand maste...

Страница 163: ...ep the same Cue Ids at the same time Setting this option to yes forces the next Playback higher number to synchronise to this Playback If enabled for playback PB10 then Wing 1 PB1 will be synced to it...

Страница 164: ...ifies how many repeats of the Chase should take place When set to 0 then the Chase will continue until the chase is exited manually 17 6 7 Running This setting specifies whether Chases start running o...

Страница 165: ...should be set to 0 17 8 2 Audio sets BPM When set to Yes then the chase speed of the Cue Stack is set to the timing of the peaks on the specified audio channel The Cue Stack should be set to Chase Tim...

Страница 166: ...17 8 6 Audio parameter 1 See Audio level above 17 8 7 Audio parameter 2 See Audio level above 17 8 8 Rate Divisor Cue Stacks can be set to use a divisor of the tapped time by default it is set to Nor...

Страница 167: ...previous Cues that are not controlled by a FX in this Cue step have the FX faded out In tracking modes this setting defaults to No In non tracking mode this setting defaults to Yes The Tracking flag F...

Страница 168: ...Position delay The default delay times used when new Cues are recorded in a Cue Stack Used by Cues in the Cue Stack set to Cue Timing Once Cues have been recorded then the times for Specific Cues are...

Страница 169: ...s are disregarded Only playbacks with a FLASH button pressed affect the HTP output Similarly the programmer and preset faders have no effect on HTP output FX and channel values are handled independent...

Страница 170: ...ded for this channel FX and channel values are handled independently enabling operators to program one playback with channel values and one with FX For example one playback could have MAC500 positions...

Страница 171: ...the older functions There is a choice of Stomping LTP or both LTP and HTP When set to just LTP then playbacks that contain HTP channels are never released stomped as they may still be affecting the o...

Страница 172: ...ow it acts as an Intensity Master Press RELEASE to stop the master having any effect 18 9 2 FX Size and FX Speed Master To make a FX Size or FX Speed Master you record a single Cue onto a Playback tha...

Страница 173: ...fault the console makes no distinction between programming and run modes Some operators may wish to restrict what is allowed in run mode this can be configured in the Setup Window You can choose to di...

Страница 174: ...Press the GOTO CUE soft button to jump directly to the Cue Alternatively key in the Cue ID within the Cue Stack of the Cue you wish to jump to and press GOTO CUE Pressing the PRELOAD CUE button rather...

Страница 175: ...in seconds before selecting the palette entry to apply For example to apply a 4 5 second movement from the current position to your programmed centre vocals position simply type 4 5 and select the vo...

Страница 176: ...to bump in the Programmer at 100 The GO button and PAUSE buttons are used to swap Palette values in the Programmer when the Programmer has mixed palette values For instance if some heads are set to us...

Страница 177: ...xample to place a Group in the Execute Window go to the Group Window press Copy select the Group and then go to the Execute Window and select the box to place the Group Cues and Cue Stacks can be reco...

Страница 178: ...ice of shutting down or entering the password to re enter the main MagicQ application windows For security reasons there is not a master password To reset the password that is locked please contact yo...

Страница 179: ...ance of the buttons faders and encoders Images uses inbuilt images whilst Coloured colours the buttons according to function When that function is active the button appears brighter The Execute Window...

Страница 180: ...aper should be a bmp or jpeg of the size set by the WIN SIZE button For MagicQ consoles the internal touch screen is 800x600 resolution Use SHIFT CLR WALLPAPER to remove the wallpaper 20 12 Special Op...

Страница 181: ...nged from the Execute Window without having to write keyboard macros In the Execute Window press ASSIGN SPECIAL and select Setup Option in order to assign the changing of a Setup Option to a single bu...

Страница 182: ...s with each event being subject to specified parameters Each event then triggers a particular MagicQ function this can be a function on a Playback a Cue Stack a Cue a Page a Macro or a Layout MagicQ c...

Страница 183: ...1 is the Page Number and F2 specifies a Playback to be activated on the Page Change 0 none and a Cue Id to jump to on PB go and PB jump PB a r level PB level PB activate PB release PB act FULL PB go P...

Страница 184: ...aracter P2 L Character to match P3 2 2nd character of received string Function PB Level F1 1 21 2 Scheduled Events MagicQ supports timed events for trigger Cues at specific times of the day or days of...

Страница 185: ...sole then records all of the following key sequences until you press the Macro Window button and the End Macro soft button To assign a macro to a button press the Assign Macro soft button and press a...

Страница 186: ...internal clock enabling accurate playback of recorded sequences MagicQ optimises fader moves to remove redundant steps 21 4 4 In built Macros MagicQ supports a number of in built macros which carry ou...

Страница 187: ...button with immediate live control during playback through encoders and buttons MagicQ includes a powerful Pixel Mapper designed for use with arrays of LED fixtures You can design a grid structure ba...

Страница 188: ...MagicQ User Manual 159 348...

Страница 189: ...each head becomes a pixel in the grid The MagicQ Pixel Mapper can then be used to play back movies bitmaps and text on the grid In the example above we patched a 20 by 20 matrix of RGB pixels total 40...

Страница 190: ...ll patched heads will be inserted Note that it is not necessary to allocate a head number to every position in the grid so if your LED fixtures are placed at weird angles you can make a grid with the...

Страница 191: ...dia server just like an external media server The Pixel Mapper can be used to play back images movies text and FX on a grid of LED dimmers or moving lights If the heads in the grid have colour mixing...

Страница 192: ...ual personality generic bitmapfx2 hed The personality has channels to select the bitmap or text channels for X Y position and size rotate and master levels for red green and blue Multiple layers can b...

Страница 193: ...peg Pics 1 User bitmaps bmp or jpeg Pics 1 User bitmaps bmp or jpeg Movies 1 User movies cmv use MagicQ Media centre to convert from mpeg avi mov etc Movies 2 User movies cmv use MagicQ Media centre t...

Страница 194: ...internal pixel mapper directly from the Media Window using the LOAD PIC LOAD MOVIE soft button available when the Pixel Mapper server is selected Movies are stored in the movies folder show movies in...

Страница 195: ...ct Devices Live Feeds to configure the live feeds For each live feed the user can set the position and size of the capture area on the PC screen In addition the resolution of the live feed sent over t...

Страница 196: ...splayed horizontally vertically top bottom or middle The Text speed determines the speed that the text scrolls across the screen Note that Text mode values less than 128 cause the text to be scrolled...

Страница 197: ...MagicQ User Manual 168 348 When the mode is set to single words then MagicQ displays each word in turn Each word must be separated by a single space in the text string...

Страница 198: ...included under the Beam attributes It is also possible to use playbacks set as LTP faders in order to control individual parameters of the bitmap from faders 22 4 11 Pixel Map FX The FX channels enab...

Страница 199: ...Vert random Horiz random enable random movement of elements across the grid Modify the mode to change thickness of the elements and offset to change the frequency With this FX it is possible to gener...

Страница 200: ...MagicQ User Manual 171 348 Spot random enable random spots on the grid Modify mode to determine whether the defaults is white spots on black background or black spots on white background...

Страница 201: ...nable rainbow patterns across the grid Modify offset to multiply the rainbow across the grid Snakes enable snaking patterns on the grid Modify the mode to determine the number of snakes the randomness...

Страница 202: ...Ball enables simple bat and ball game on the grid The bats are controlled by FX Parameters 2 and 3 The game starts when one of the bats is moved Other bitmap layers can be combined with this to make a...

Страница 203: ...e Horiz and Wipe Vert these perform a wipe of a colour across the entire grid in the horizontal or vertical directions The colour wiped across the grid is determined by the red green blue colour attri...

Страница 204: ...Level bottom Columns right to left FX P2 specifies channels 3 Level left Rows top to bottom FX P2 specifies channels 4 Level right Rows bottom to top FX P2 specifies channels 5 BMT1 Split into 3 Mid B...

Страница 205: ...l Map layer is active dimmer above 0 then setting no base on that layer will make the Pixel Map effect ignore any base level for the controlled channels instead of adding to the base level When any ac...

Страница 206: ...iew Plan pressing PATCH PIXMAP will now patch the 3D personality FX3 22 5 2 Effects 3D Pixel mapping effects are selected using the 3D FX Type parameter under the 3D FX page in the Media window For ea...

Страница 207: ...MagicQ User Manual 178 348 3D FX A2 applies a trail to the particle as it moves...

Страница 208: ...the grid depth 22 5 2 4 Heightmap This effect takes the input media from it s own layer and uses Modulate Layer 1 to offset the vertical position of the layer in 3D space and the Modulate Layer 2 to c...

Страница 209: ...MagicQ User Manual 180 348 22 5 3 Full Up and Fill Down The Fill up and Fill down modes fill the rest of the 3D space either above or below the media layer with the same pixel value...

Страница 210: ...MagicQ User Manual 181 348...

Страница 211: ...y have a large amount of LED broken down into panels which you have then programmed as groups Grids of groups enable multiple heads to be allocated to one box in the grid When Bitmaps Text or internal...

Страница 212: ...s based on the grid size This generates groups using the entire grid but with different orders of selection e g from centre to outside from the edges and vice versa This makes it easy to quickly gener...

Страница 213: ...w Use Auto Groups to generate groups in different directions on the group and from the centre outwards In the Plan View use SHIFT MAKE GROUP to make a group from the currently selected heads If no tex...

Страница 214: ...media servers or intelligent media yokes each with different media content MagicQ downloads thumbnail previews for the media content from each media server independently MagicQ supports a special win...

Страница 215: ...required layers of different types and configures the media server settings for one media server all in one action If your media server is not in the list of media servers then you will need to patch...

Страница 216: ...he network and to retrieve thumbnails and live previews Move to the IP address field and set the IP address If you have only one media server active on the network then pressing enter should detect it...

Страница 217: ...is running on If you wish to connect to a MagicHD system on another PC Mac or a MagicHD Box then set the Media Server IP address to the IP address of the external MagicHD system 23 3 2 Arkaos For Ark...

Страница 218: ...mbnail view MagicQ retrieves thumbnails from the media server and shows them on the screen for easy selection of media banks and media images The media server must be enabled in the Setup Window Media...

Страница 219: ...y integrated with MagicQ and can be used to play back media to a 2nd monitor attached to your MagicQ PC Mac From the toolbar select Media Player View Media Output and a MagicHD window will be opened 2...

Страница 220: ...PC Mac then set up multiple identical Media Server entries each with the IP of the live feed source and thumbs and Live Previews enabled The entries do not have to be adjacent media servers in the lis...

Страница 221: ...d soft button whilst if you wish to copy an existing head you can use the Save As soft button At any time you can choose a new head however if you have made changes which you have not saved to disc th...

Страница 222: ...if you change software version as this loads the latest head libraries If there are genuine errors in the head then please let us know so that we can update our libraries The heads in the ChamSys libr...

Страница 223: ...DMX Offset specify constraints on where the Head can be patched within the 512 DMX channels Changing the Num of Chans will automatically change DMX Max 24 5 3 Params Pan Range and Tilt Range are used...

Страница 224: ...hannels Framing type is used to specify the framing shuttering type MQTrack is specific to MagicQ tracking systems and is only used by MagicQ inbuilt head files 24 5 5 Multi The Multiple Heads Type an...

Страница 225: ...Pos6 Speed 51 P1F Position Vector Speed Col1 6 C1X Col Wheel 1 Col2 7 C1Y Col Wheel 2 Col3 Speed 26 C1B Colour Vector Speed Col4 27 C1E Colour White Cyan 16 C1A Cyan Red Magenta 17 C1B Magenta Green Y...

Страница 226: ...er two channels as for 16 bit and the highest channel to 24 Bit Hi The Instant field specifies whether a channel by default snaps immediately to new values rather than fading this is useful for colour...

Страница 227: ...ange can be used to build Palettes When a Head has no Palettes specified for a particular channel then it can try and generate them from the range information Up to 20 Auto Palettes are supported per...

Страница 228: ...e regardless of whether heads of the type have been patched The palette data is immediately available for patching new heads When you have changed Palettes in the Head Editor you can regenerate palett...

Страница 229: ...orrect levels and hold them for a time e g 5 seconds and then a step that returns the channels to their default values The step data is specified in the fields D1 Dx For each step there is a time for...

Страница 230: ...ead The View Chans view continues to show the individual channels Heads with multiple elements can be inserted into the grid in one go The Width Height and Order fields in the head specify how the rep...

Страница 231: ...recorded Palettes values are created only for the first element When a sub selection is in operation MagicQ will use the value in the Palette for the first element regardless of the element selected t...

Страница 232: ...e FX stored on the console so all changes will affect new shows made on the console MagicQ will not allow you to directly edit the inbuilt FX you must SAVE AS to create a new FX before you make any ch...

Страница 233: ...n specific colours on a colour wheel 25 2 View Chans Each step in the FX consists of a value between 0 and 255 and a curve The curve specifies how the level changes from one step to the next The valid...

Страница 234: ...he product is configured from MagicQ 26 1 Normal non ChamNet mode If the SnakeSys product is set in a mode other than ChamNet Mode such as Art Net ACN or buffer then it is not possible to configure th...

Страница 235: ...ices MagicQ must be running software version 1 6 0 5 or higher http chamsys co uk download Connect the SnakeSys device to either a MagicQ Console or MagicQ PC Mac System via a direct network cable It...

Страница 236: ...o add a new interface MagicQ will present a list of default profiles for configuring the interface An interface can be removed by putting the cursor on the line of the interface and pressing REMOVE If...

Страница 237: ...g of universes enables consoles to be working on different universes all within the same network MagicQ supports programming of a single show file from multiple consoles MagicQ does not currently supp...

Страница 238: ...st of network ports including any fixed network ports and wireless ports Right click the required network connection and select Properties Choose Internet Protocol TCP IP A dialog box should appear wi...

Страница 239: ...network problems At the command line type ping followed by the IP address e g to test network connection to IP address 2 0 0 3 ping 2 0 0 3 There is a short cut for use on the console keypad enter th...

Страница 240: ...a zone This allows complete control of a multi room system directly from the Execute Window without users needing to access the Setup Window 27 6 Setting up Network Sessions Software version 1 5 9 4...

Страница 241: ...hibit All feature All consoles outputs within the network session are disabled It is still possible to change Master but the outputs remain disabled When the Network Session Mode is enabled set to Man...

Страница 242: ...cks The operator can then set up the playbacks as they wish and then clear the programmer to change to this new look Clearing the programmer with time enables the operator to specify a fade time to th...

Страница 243: ...consoles 27 7 1 Checking Slave synchronisation The status of the slave synchronisation is shown in the status bar Initially the status window will show NoCon Once the Slave has a connection to the Mas...

Страница 244: ...The Slave controls the currently selected heads When no heads are selected none are controlled Active The Slave controls all channels that are active in the programmer Last Active The Master and Slav...

Страница 245: ...een external screen 1 external screen 2 and whether a network message is sent to other consoles Setting Net Only results in messages only being sent over the network not shown on the console where the...

Страница 246: ...t take over Whenever there is no ArtNet traffic on the network for a particular universe the back up console starts sending data for that universe As soon as data reappears the back up console stops s...

Страница 247: ...uired universes on both consoles should be set to Hot Takeover Equal Mode Setting both consoles to Equal operates a Master Slave mode whereby both Consoles have the same precedence The first console t...

Страница 248: ...onsole to the other Similarly control can be given to another console using the RELEASE CONTROL soft button This will force the other console to take control and depending on the hot take over options...

Страница 249: ...on information on the network It is possible to set a MagicQ console to only accept synchronisation information from a particular console In Multi Console Settings Playback Sync IP enter the IP addres...

Страница 250: ...ata sync to Master Prog and Slave Prog then selective channel control is automatically enabled Selective channel control can also be used without multi programming This gives slave consoles access to...

Страница 251: ...on the back up console Note that files will only be copied from consoles that have the auto backup option set to yes or on changes Files will not be copied from consoles that do not have this set e g...

Страница 252: ...n under the ChamSys menu that enable MagicQ to run in remote mode In remote mode MagicQ acts only as a remote control system it does not transmit any network traffic e g Art Net ACN Pathport etc excep...

Страница 253: ...two operators will cause confusion This function is only enabled when the target system i e the one you wish to control is a MagicQ console or it is a MagicQ PC system with a MagicQ PC Wing or MagicQ...

Страница 254: ...ication can be downloaded free of charge from the Apple App Store For Android it can be downloaded free of charge from the Google Play Store To enable support for the remote application set Setup View...

Страница 255: ...2 0 0 1 Note that many access points only support subnet masks of 255 255 255 0 instead of the normal ArtNet subnet mask 255 0 0 0 This can be overcome by simply making sure that all your devices are...

Страница 256: ...connection shown until the correct password is entered on the iOS Android device Note that MagicQ versions 1 5 4 0 to 1 5 6 0 had problems with the Edimx interface 1 5 6 2 supports it ok but it is ne...

Страница 257: ...n change to the Execute Window and select the place in the grid to copy to This latest version allows the Execute Window images to be shown on your iPhone or iPad as images instead of boxes Custom but...

Страница 258: ...chamsys176 8080 remote In order to set up a PC Pocket PC or mobile phone to connect to MagicQ you must ensure that there is a physical connection to MagicQ either directly via network cable or via a...

Страница 259: ...es and PC systems on the networks and enables easy selection of particular consoles for remote control The Remote and Execute functions are only enabled when connected to a MagicQ console or a MagicQ...

Страница 260: ...e after cmd button type submit name cmd1T value 1T PB1 act button button type submit name cmd1U value 1U PB1 rel button 29 5 Remote control using Magic Wand simulator MagicQ supports a Magic Wand simu...

Страница 261: ...ack playback number S Stop go back on playback playback number B Fast back on playback no fade playback number F Fast forward on playback no fade playback number level L Set playback fader level playb...

Страница 262: ...er 10 palette id H Include position palette 11 palette id H Include colour palette 12 palette id H Include beam palette 13 cue id H Include cue 19 H Update 20 palette id H Record position palette 21 p...

Страница 263: ...Tilt 5 Pos1 46 Pos2 47 Pos3 48 Pos4 49 Pos5 50 Pos6 51 Cyan 16 Magenta 17 Yellow 18 Col mix 19 Col1 6 Col3 26 Col2 7 Col4 27 Shutter 2 Iris 3 Gobo1 8 Gobo2 9 Gobo3 28 Gobo4 29 Rotate1 10 Rotate2 11 Ro...

Страница 264: ...ocol using port 6553 in broadcast mode The port number can be changed in setup View Settings Network Playback Sync Port The structure of the UDP IP packets are a ChamSys CREP header followed by the re...

Страница 265: ...n the UDP packet Note that commas are not allowed within the ASCII data inside or If you wish to send then you must send it as its hexadecimal ASCII code 31 3 Reading from the network By default data...

Страница 266: ...htons REMOTE_ETHER_PORT name sin_addr s_addr htonl INADDR_ANY if bind remote_ether_sock struct sockaddr name sizeof name closesocket remote_ether_sock return FALSE getsockopt remote_ether_sock SOL_SOC...

Страница 267: ...ote_ether_tx char data word16 size Format the message byte message MAX_CREP_MSG remote_ether_message_t rem remote_ether_message_t message int nbytes struct sockaddr_in name if remote_ether_sock return...

Страница 268: ...ss subnet_address name sin_family AF_INET name sin_port htons REMOTE_ETHER_PORT name sin_addr s_addr dwswap my_broadcast_address s_addr nbytes sendto remote_ether_sock message size sizeof remote_ether...

Страница 269: ...MagicQ PC the availability of a serial port will depend on the PC Many modern laptops do not have a serial port however USB to serial converters are readily available MagicQ supports standard baud ra...

Страница 270: ...10 13 To send the binary data stream 00 01 02 03 04 X0 1 2 3 4 To send text only X abcedf To send several lines of text X Hello 10 13 World 10 13 32 3 Reading from the serial port By default data rece...

Страница 271: ...ire the latest Pro 2014 kernel whilst MQ40 MQ60 and MQ70 require the latest firmware From v1 6 0 9 MagicQ PC Mac supports audio input through the PC Mac sound card when the PC Mac is connected to a Ma...

Страница 272: ...ond to Audio level audio parameter 1 and audio parameter 2 should be set to 0 Audio Controls fader level enables the level of the fader to be controlled by the received audio level on the chosen chann...

Страница 273: ...arty PC MIDI interfaces MagicQ can generate and receive MIDI notes commands and can also receive MIDI show control and MIDI beat clock MIDI is configured in the Setup Window View Settings view MIDI Ti...

Страница 274: ...to lines in the default file are 144 36 1t 128 36 1u MagicQ checks the received MIDI note byes to see whether they match the values So if the MIDI message matches 144 36 then it executes the remote co...

Страница 275: ...8 63 21u 144 64 22t 128 64 22u 144 65 23t 128 65 23u 144 66 24t 128 66 24u 144 67 25t 128 67 25u 144 68 26t 128 68 26u 144 69 27t 128 69 27u 144 70 28t 128 70 28u 144 71 29t 128 71 29u 144 72 30t 128...

Страница 276: ...ly 08 our interfaces have been improved to boost the signal received from these devices 34 4 MIDI Show Control MagicQ supports MIDI show control when connected to a ChamSys 2010 MIDI Timecode Interfac...

Страница 277: ...he Cue Store F0 7F 7F 02 01 01 00 31 30 F7 Go Cue Stack 10 in the Stack Store F0 7F 7F 02 01 01 32 00 31 30 F7 Go Cue 2 on Cue Stack 10 in the Stack Store It is possible to test how MagicQ responds to...

Страница 278: ...ia LTC or MIDI timecode They can also be set up to use an Internal timecode source which is activated from 0 0 0 when the Cue Stack is activated 35 1 Timecode Decode MagicQ supports decode of both lin...

Страница 279: ...the Cue Stack options Cues can be set to time code by changing the Halt field in the Cue Stack window double click on it or press SHIFT ENTER When a Cue Stack that contains time code cues is activated...

Страница 280: ...werful timecode simulator for simulating external timecode when an external timecode source is not available In the Setup Window the simulator is turned on using soft button Y When the simulator is on...

Страница 281: ...for disable Q time code Set current time code also enables time code generation For example to set timecode to 0 0 10 0 Q0 0 10 0 35 7 Timecode Re transmit The LTC or MIDI timecode decoded from a Mag...

Страница 282: ...cally on the connector 2 0V and equipment ground 4 Opto isolated input negative 3 Opto isolated input positive 1 Power supply positive 5 Volt current limited The remote input can be used to receive an...

Страница 283: ...push to break switch When using an external signal setting the type to make will cause a trigger when the voltage differential is positive The remote trigger action determines what action is taken by...

Страница 284: ...very time the remote input is triggered TAP TO TIME changes the speed of the currently selected playback In Setup View System View Status there is a counter of the number of times the remote input has...

Страница 285: ...pairs If not used with a PoE switch a Power over Ethernet injector will be required to power the unit Multiple Scene Setters can be used in a system each with a separate ID allowing each to control 4...

Страница 286: ...n IP address in the 2 9 200 XX range note your MagicQ Console or MagicQ PC must be set to have an IP address in this range with a subnet mask of 255 0 0 0 37 3 Using the Scene Setter The four playback...

Страница 287: ...n the Scene Setter Note that if you change the IP address of the Scene Setter then it will be necessary to use the new address in your browser address bar 37 5 Setting up the Serial Port The serial po...

Страница 288: ...s ensuring that the MagicQ console continues to run at full performance In order to render the beams MagicVis uses the graphics card in your PC Mac the better the performance of your graphics card the...

Страница 289: ...ems you may need to disable other network adaptors such as the wireless adaptor Once MagicVis is synced then whenever you load a new show on the console or change the visualiser patch then the changes...

Страница 290: ...orthographic view then the view automatically becomes Free You can rotate the camera around by pointing the mouse at the visualiser window clicking and holding then moving the mouse around Move the c...

Страница 291: ...ncluding Selected Heads Vis Heads and Attach Objects In Selected Heads all the visualiser heads for the currently selected heads will be shown in the list Heads are selected as usual using groups or d...

Страница 292: ...e form or room objects The wall people and furniture objects are not currently supported To create an Object press the INSERT soft button then select what kind of object is to be created The object is...

Страница 293: ...onality The shape is also shown in the Fixture Patch report If you wish to change the beam angle for fixtures other than generic heads then you must change the Zoom Narrow and Wide in the Params tab o...

Страница 294: ...a also controls the brightness of the room and of the beams These attributes can be found in the Beam window Tip FX can be applied to the position and rotation attributes to make the Camera fly around...

Страница 295: ...t the tables however you like The Patch Sheets contain all the heads in the patch whether or not they are in the Visualiser Therefore you can create a patch sheet without having to load fixtures into...

Страница 296: ...ted then go to Patch VIEW VIS Vis Heads and press the INSERT PATCHED soft This creates a visualiser head for each head in the patch The heads will be positioned in a grid format 38 2 15 Converting a M...

Страница 297: ...ide elevations restricted to either Flown or Floor fixtures and the view can be moved and zoomed The view can be restricted to only selected fixtures or to all fixtures Fixtures can be selected from t...

Страница 298: ...set to Playback MagicQ will show in the visualiser the contents of the selected Playback as if the Playback fader was at 100 Only data from the selected Playback is shown When set to Next GO MagicQ wi...

Страница 299: ...eed to ensure that both systems have their IP address and Subnet Address set up to be on the same network range e g set one to 2 0 0 1 subnet 255 0 0 0 and the other to 2 0 0 2 subnet 255 0 0 0 40 2 C...

Страница 300: ...tically enabled when you select WYSIWYG as the visualiser If you are using WYWISYG on the same PC as MagicQ then set the Visualiser to WYSIWYG same PC otherwise set it to WYSIWYG remote When connectin...

Страница 301: ...MagicQ User Manual 272 348 The universes in WYSIWYG must be bound to the ChamSys MagicQ device in order for communication to occur with MagicQ...

Страница 302: ...ou turn Auto Focus on for the ChamSys port in the Device Manager on WYSIWYG then changes made in WYSIWYG design mode will be relayed to the programmer in the console 40 3 5 Troubleshooting Problem WYS...

Страница 303: ...SETTINGS Mode Settings not Product Country Keypad Encoder Settings Windows Settings Programming Settings Playback Settings Cue Stack Settings Cue Storage Settings Media Server Settings CONSOLE SETTIN...

Страница 304: ...ging mode are Table 41 1 Setup Prog Settings Setting Normal live Theatre non track Theatre Track Hog II warp Programmer Tracking No No Yes Yes Unused Chans return to defaults No Yes Yes Yes Programmer...

Страница 305: ...o Multi Cue Zero Old FX Yes Yes No No Track L L HLF HLF Table 41 7 Setup Cue Stack Defaults Step Times Setting Normal live Theatre non track Theatre Track Hog II warp HTP in HTP out Pos times 0s 3s 3s...

Страница 306: ...l over Ethernet Show Net Show net protocol over Ethernet ACN ACN Streaming DMX over Ethernet MQ Direct Direct DMX outputs from MagicQ Pro and Expert consoles MQ Wing DMX outputs on MagicQ PC wing Mini...

Страница 307: ...verse 3 to 2 and Universe 4 to 3 41 3 4 MagicQ Consoles Direct Outputs All current MagicQ consoles have four direct DMX outputs on the rear panel By default MagicQ consoles are set to output the first...

Страница 308: ...both DMX Out and DMX In The MagicDMX interfaces do not remove the automation and remote restrictions when used with MagicQ Software this requires a MagicQ Wing or MagicQ Dual DMX Interface 41 3 8 Test...

Страница 309: ...hortcuts Hold ALL and press a playback Select Selects groups 1 to 10 Hold POS and press a playback Select Selects position palette entry Hold COL and press a playback Select Selects colour palette ent...

Страница 310: ...k Use the 3rd down PG UP PG DN buttons to change the Media Image Cues Testing of Cues Use PG UP PG DN to scroll pages of cues Cue Stack Testing of Cue Stacks Use PG UP PG DN to scroll pages of Cue Sta...

Страница 311: ...ttons on the external DMX console MagicQ uses the top 5 of the channel range as an indication that a FLASH button has been pressed On the external console the playback master fader should be configure...

Страница 312: ...includes an option to force a single window to the external monitor output The Window will remain on the external monitor except when a SHIFT CLOSE is performed This option is set in the Setup Window...

Страница 313: ...under the operating system not under MagicQ MagicQ consoles support many different touch protocols however we are reliant on the drivers available in Linux so not all touch screens will be supported...

Страница 314: ...ng X Y values in the Status Window Exit board test mode ALT CNTRL SHIFT Go to Setup View Settings and select Calibrate Touch Press 1 to confirm Now press the X on the external touch screen in the four...

Страница 315: ...r astronomical scheduled events Enter the time zone from 23 to 23 41 7 3 Latitude This is used for astronomical scheduled events Enter the latitude in degrees 41 7 4 Longitude This is used for astrono...

Страница 316: ...tting enables automatic back ups It can be set to No Yes and On Changes By default it is set to On Changes For playback of shows you may wish to turn back ups off especially if you have a very large s...

Страница 317: ...correspond to the the three options named Zero old HTP Zero old FX Rel unused chans which are the inverse of the above options The defaults for these options can be changed in the Cue Stack View Defau...

Страница 318: ...always Whens set to No only one Group can be selected at one time selecting a second group releases the first group Pressing SHIFT and multiple groups allows multiple groups to be selected Multiple i...

Страница 319: ...n you include Cues and Palette entries into the programmer the console automatically selects the heads If set to Yes the console selects all heads that have levels in the Cue or Palette entry 41 9 5 K...

Страница 320: ...and the Window button e g SHIFT GROUP In addition the Intensity attribute will also appear on Encoder F in the Pos window if that encoder is not already used for position attributes When encoder mode...

Страница 321: ...playback keys Programming shortcuts Windows are opened using CTRL and the alphanumeric keys CTRL A CTRL D CTRL E Execute CTRL F Fx CTRL G Group CTRL H Help CTRL I Intensity CTRL J Beam CTRL K Colour...

Страница 322: ...d This is useful in some countries where the normal mappings and are not easy to select To set this setting simply press the 3 keys you wish for the functions followed by ENTER 41 9 13 Enable Mouse to...

Страница 323: ...s Windows Programmer Windows and Cue Windows The currently selected heads appear at the top of the window When set to No the rows are ordered according to the Sort option specified in the Patch Window...

Страница 324: ...he Outputs Window shows intensities either using glass fill or colour grading 41 10 15 Message Window This specifies where the message box is shown main screen external screen 1 external screen 2 and...

Страница 325: ...ue within the specific Cue Stack and the QId of the Cue within the Cue Store Many users record Cues directly to Cue Stacks on Playbacks and do not need to use the Cue Store These users are only concer...

Страница 326: ...ap To Time Selected the GO button affects the absolute rate of the currently selected Playback When set to Global Tap to Time affects the absolute rate of all active playbacks Cue Stacks can be set to...

Страница 327: ...r Playback When set to non tracked only channels that are recorded as hard values in the current Cue will be reasserted All no fade forces an immediate change of the channel values controlled by the P...

Страница 328: ...s except for the PB1 option are only available on MagicQ consoles or on MagicQ PC systems with MagicQ Wings or Interfaces attached 41 13 12 Run in Execute Window This setting starts the console MagicQ...

Страница 329: ...n is enabled data can be transmitted from the Macro field of Cue steps in the Cue Stack When using network sessions or multi console operation this option should be set to None See ChamSys Remote Ehth...

Страница 330: ...eless channel to use when using a USB to Wireless interface with the MagicQ Pro 2010 or Pro 2014 console Also for MQ70 For connection to an iPhone or iPod Touch try channel 5 41 14 15 Wireless SSID Wi...

Страница 331: ...ally outputs DMX from a connected MagicQ Wing starting from Universe 1 provided that none of the Universes have been explicitly set to MQ Wing This option also enables MagicQ to search for SnakeSys pr...

Страница 332: ...creen for other serial settings See Controlling MagicQ Using Serial Port and Multiple Consoles for more details 41 15 9 Serial touch monitor Determines which monitor on the MagicQ system has a touch s...

Страница 333: ...m are ignored and the levels are scaled appro priately See Audio for full details on audio input 41 15 14 Parallel Port Address For use with the Artistic License parallel port dongle 41 15 15 Monitor...

Страница 334: ...MagicQ will send MIDI notes on the channel specified in the macro field in the Cue Stack When set to Requested Channel then MagicQ will always send the MIDI notes on the MIDI Out Channel that is set...

Страница 335: ...e 41 17 6 Hot Takeover Detect Time When Network Session Mode is set to Auto Takeover this specifies how long after a Slave detects that there is no Master on the network before it takes over control a...

Страница 336: ...acks may get triggered erroneously even when the fader has not been raised above 0 In these circumstances setting this level to a level above 0 e g 5 may remove the erroneous triggers 41 18 2 Hysteres...

Страница 337: ...reducing network traffic when data is not changing The reduced rate DMX options do not affect the WYSIWYG or Capture data The DMX data sent to MagicQ Wings and Interfaces is only sent when the data ch...

Страница 338: ...een This puts the screen into calibration mode To calibrate the touch screen simply press the screen in the bottom left corner of the screen and then the top right corner of the screen Press the scree...

Страница 339: ...cation that the console is powered 41 25 Controlling console lamp from the programmed show The console lamp brightness display brightness and LED brightness can now be controlled as a fixture within t...

Страница 340: ...been pressed Faders and encoders also can be tested in a similar way In button test mode the Window shows a map of all the buttons encoders and faders When a button is pressed the map turns green to i...

Страница 341: ...s with the file system Normally this will only result in a subsequent slow start up whilst the system repairs the disk however in certain circumstances the file system may become corrupted If you alwa...

Страница 342: ...al system It is a good idea to back up your show to an external system This ensures that should the unexpected happen you can transfer your show to another console In a touring environment where the c...

Страница 343: ...SB then the additional show file is saved at the same time This extras show file contains only the extra icon snapshot data it does not contain the main programming of your show If you wish to use you...

Страница 344: ...show To merge two versions of a show together select Advanced and then Merge Heads MagicQ will merge in Cues and Cue Stacks from the selected show file that are different to the Cues and Cue Stacks i...

Страница 345: ...e all on the same IP sub net For instance if the console is set to IP address 2 9 200 5 subnet mask 255 0 0 0 then set the host system to IP address 2 9 200 6 subnet mask 255 0 0 0 Connect to the file...

Страница 346: ...4 consoles support 64 universes MagicQ MQ60 MQ70 and MQ100 Expert consoles support 12 universes MQ40 supports 4 universes MagicQ PC Mac and Linux software supports 64 universes this enables backup fro...

Страница 347: ...p of the console including the console specific settings like IP address media settings etc and the show file This enables the console to be used to control different venues with easy swapping between...

Страница 348: ...rsion Also ensure any personalities that you have customised have been saved to a different file name of your choice the new software will install the latest version of the standard personalities We r...

Страница 349: ...ttons Pro 2010 consoles continue to use the cdx software but this now includes the new graphical toolkit Software 1 6 5 0 is not supported on older products such as MQ50 Architectural controller rack...

Страница 350: ...ting up to enter the BIOS setup Use the arrow keys and enter key to select Integrated Peripherals Onboard Select Device USB Keyboard Support and set it to Enabled Press F10 to save and exit As soon as...

Страница 351: ...so double check every command before you run it mount dev sda1 mnt mount dev sda7 mnt home chroot mnt cd opt magicq tigstartuprun This will then ask you to hit any key to enter the software update ut...

Страница 352: ...resented with a list of options where the top option is MagicQ Recovery Select this option using the up down cursor keys and ENTER It will ask you for a password after a few seconds type misspacman an...

Страница 353: ...hen say Starting firmware upgrade and then a few seconds later Sent start upgrade Do not touch anything or power off whilst the update is in progress interrupting the upgrade will leave the Console in...

Страница 354: ...k and then use the encoders or key in new values If your CMY colours are coming out inverted i e red is cyan green is purple blue is yellow then you need to set the CMY Invert option for that personal...

Страница 355: ...ad Import ASCII file PATCH View Chans Import USITT Reset console SETUP SHIFT QUIT Table 45 2 Patching Select head for patching PATCH Choose Head Patch 1 head next free address 1 Patch It Patch 5 heads...

Страница 356: ...O Lamp off all Lamp On selected heads SHIFT LOCATE Lamp Off selected heads CTRL SHIFT LOCATE Reset selected heads CTRL LOCATE Lamp on selected heads select head Lamp off selected heads select head Res...

Страница 357: ...BEAM LOCATE Default intensity attribs Select heads INT LOCATE Make active all attribs Select heads SET Make active pos attribs Select heads POS SET Make active colour attribs Select heads COLOR SET Ma...

Страница 358: ...eads only REC Record sel attribs SHIFT REC select attribs S Record entire state of programmer ALL REC Record Cue Only REC Record Snapshot THRU REC Table 45 11 Record Merging Removing Record Merge REC...

Страница 359: ...HIFT SET Table 45 14 Information Windows Additional Output Windows 2 OUT 3 OUT 4 OUT Programmer Info Window CTRL PROG or 2 PROG Cue Stack Info Window CTRL CUE STACK or 2 CUE STACK Send text message de...

Страница 360: ...back R Playback no Activate Playback 100 T Playback no Release Playback 0 U Playback no Go Playback G Playback no Stop Playback S Playback no Choose Playback C Playback no Set level last Cue Stack act...

Страница 361: ...sing an Ethernet convertor box check that it is receiving data correctly Check Outputs are configured correctly Outputs are enabled Is test mode active in DMX IO If using network outputs check the IP...

Страница 362: ...ardware problem Get a qualified service technician to remove the rear panel and reseat cables and procesor daughter card transition card On a Pro 2014 console if the console is showing lynxfb then get...

Страница 363: ...r card transition card is firmly pressed onto the processor card Avoid using the white reset button to shut down the console use the three cursor keys V and press DBO to shut down the console 46 8 Mag...

Страница 364: ...native functions include selecting views and making adjustments to the display and console light brightness The ctrl keys on external keyboards also have the same function Alt The alt button is used o...

Страница 365: ...tton Pressing this button makes the Programmer Window the active window If the window was not open then the window is opened The Programmer Window is used to view and modify the contents of the progra...

Страница 366: ...events Pressing and holding the Macro button causes the Macro Window to be temporarily made the active window until the button is released Help This is a Window select button Pressing this button mak...

Страница 367: ...an be recorded named removed moved and copied Pressing and holding the Stack Store button causes the Stack Store Window to be temporarily made the active window until the button is released Cue Store...

Страница 368: ...ries from the Position Palette It also supports the Flip function for moving heads Pressing and holding the Pos button causes the Pos Window to be temporarily made the active window until the button i...

Страница 369: ...p Mirror Pair The MQ1000 includes a dedicated Pair button On Compact consoles MQ40 MQ60 MQ70 press ALT SINGLE See Pair Select Used to select a playback as the current playback Provides a means of sele...

Страница 370: ...feature Include An action button for including previously programmed show data back into the programmer Used to edit Cues See Editing Cues Shift and Include is used to include but with a additional op...

Страница 371: ...uttons Manual Pause This Pause button is part of the manual control section and controls the current playback It has the same functionality as the Pause button associated with a playback It provides P...

Страница 372: ...ecify levels for dimmers Also used as a shortcut to select heads e g 1 selects head 1 Full The full key is used to indicate 100 when setting levels for dimmers Time This button is used to specify time...

Страница 373: ...ating system www debian org Versions prior to v1 5 6 0 of the software also used the MicroWindows library www microwindows org The software uses Qt libraries www http qt project org Linux and MicroWin...

Страница 374: ...for a specified time usually 15 minutes before the power should be restored or the console shut down Beam An attribute type attributes of an intelligent head that modify the make up of the beam are c...

Страница 375: ...oder Rotary dial used for easy control of parameters Ethernet A method of connecting data equipment together in the form of a Local Area Network LAN Fan Method of modifying parameters using encoders w...

Страница 376: ...Cue for preloading LTP values prior to the following Cue Master The Playback Master can be configured to control the HTP level of the Playbacks or the HTP level of Add Swap buttons Merge A method of c...

Страница 377: ...mer contents into an existing Cue Snapshot Loading the current outputs into the Programmer Spread Offset between heads in an FX Stack Short for Cue Stack Stack Store Short for Cue Stack Store Touch Sc...

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