Importing from a Strand 300 desk

Hi John,

To import a Strand showfile you need a program called Showport from Strand. You must install this in the root  directory of your windows installation [c:\].

1. load the show file into Showport
2. Export it as an ASCII file ( I think it is Menu-> Export-> ASCII)
3. Load this file from USB as you would load a normal show file

It will not import Macros or chases. It will work very well if you import a conventional  show. Part cues will be imported as channel times and so on. One thing you have to check are the times on your cues due to the fact that 0 or no time will be replaced with the default go time.

Hope that helps

Florian
 

Hi John,

To import a Strand showfile you need a program called Showport from Strand. You must install this in the root  directory of your windows installation [c:\].

1. load the show file into Showport
2. Export it as an ASCII file ( I think it is Menu-> Export-> ASCII)
3. Load this file from USB as you would load a normal show file

It will not import Macros or chases. It will work very well if you import a conventional  show. Part cues will be imported as channel times and so on. One thing you have to check are the times on your cues due to the fact that 0 or no time will be replaced with the default go time.

Hope that helps

Florian
 

Thanks Florian,

Thats the easy bit, now all I have to do is find someone in Strand/Gentec/Phillips.....

Best wishes

John 

Try this link: http://www.strandlight.com/Software/Showport/v2.5sp.zip

Add this link to you bookmarks:

http://www.strandlight.com/US/softwares.html 

It has many of the useful utilities from the old Strand - took me a lot of Google to find.