Eos Fun Facts

This one is obvious but, Double hitting any record target, (Cue, Focus Palette, Color Palette, Beam Palette, etc.) will take you to the list that corresponds with those targets. 

And David.... once you are in that list view.... an edit key makes it possible to go directly to blind of the selected record target.

 Also.....

 Has everyone discovered the live scroller calibration tool in 1.3?  Select a channel with a color scroller.  Toggle the scroller encoder.  Notice a key that says "Calibrate."  Starting at the far end of the scroll (you want to work back toward the first frame), center the last color and press calibrate.   Repeat with each frame.  Why bother?  Because it'll make the encoder in coarse mode spot on accurate.

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Chris,

That is a fun fact.  Any Five seconds that I'm not standing in front of the console waiting for it to boot up while my crew is on deck standing around is a real bonus.  It really begs the question though- Why is the countdown there in the first place if the time that it is counting isn't necessary?  Especially if you (ETC) know that it is annoying?

B

That mechanism is in place to give the user a small window of time to prevent Eos from automatically launching.  Although, I've never actually seen it, we were worried that if your current show file became corrupted (bad sectors on a hard drive, etc...), it could cause Eos to hang/freeze on launch.  If this ever happened, the user could reboot, prevent auto-launch, and perform a "Deep Clear" from within the shell.

On Ion when you hold down an encoder, you will get the same functionality that we have on Eos. You will get a Min,Max,Next,Last & Mode button. And as long as you are holding the encoder you can continue to push the softkey that corresponds to the function that you want!

DS 

Did you also know that [at] [Enter] applied to selected channels/parameters removes the current move instruction and puts the value from the previous cue on stage (when you are working in live)?  You then just have to update the cue.  This eliminates [channel list] [recall from] <Cue> [Last] [Enter] or even worse, [Blind] [Last] --- look at the value you want, return to live, setting that value and storing/updating the cue.

 In blind, it simply removes the move instruction. 

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Did you also know that [at] [Enter] applied to selected channels/parameters removes the current move instruction and puts the value from the previous cue on stage (when you are working in live)?  You then just have to update the cue.  This eliminates [channel list] [recall from] <Cue> [Last] [Enter] or even worse, [Blind] [Last] --- look at the value you want, return to live, setting that value and storing/updating the cue.

 In blind, it simply removes the move instruction. 

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From my experience, the [at] [enter] will only work to recall data from the previous cue.  if you want to recall colour data (or any other data) from another cue, you'd need to enter

[1] [colour] [recall from] (cue) [5] [enter]

hope that helps

Cheers 

Ben, Brent is correct about that.  Also, did you know that if you apply a curve to a cue, it impacts just the intensity transitions of the cue, but if you place it on a cue part, it impacts whatever is stored in the associated part.  So this is an easy tool to ramp parameters (such as pan and tilt) when needed.

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And, that you can use [Clear] & [Enter] to make manual values "unmanual."  They will stay on stage as currently set, but are no longer available for Record Only or Update operations.  If you do this with channels selected, it will impact only those channels.  If you do it with no channels selected, it impacts all manual values.   

Anne 

This may be old news to some, but one I just discovered.

You can edit effect rate, Vert & Horiz size, axis etc, in blind the same way you can live. yay!!

Did you know that you can record the Live look without submaster contribution? [-][Sub][Record]. You can even specify a sub to exclude: [-][Sub][2][Record]
 

And did you know that [Next] can be used to find available output addresses in patch. .... as in:

[channel list] (type if necessary) [at] [next] [Enter] - will find the lowest numbered available address block big enough to patch your selection

[channel list] (type if necessary) [at] [2] [/] [Next] [Enter] - will find the lowest numbered available address block on universe 2.

...as above... [at] [4] [5] [Next] [Enter] - will find the next available address block higher than 45.

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Did you know - [Group][Target] now first selects the channels in that target? This is a change in 1.3.1.

What does this mean?

You can now select all of the lights in Color Palette 4 without actually putting them there. Useful to see what channels are recorded in a target.
 
If you want to put them there (the old Group Target functionality), you can simply repeat the target - especially useful with the direct selects: [Group][FP4][FP4]. You can also use {Recall From}[FP4].
 

For those who miss the [select active] and [select manual] hard keys that are on the Eos, you can use the keyboard commands to access these functions on the ION.

I've found it handy to record them into a macro, and then be able to access them via direct selects.  Hazaar! 

Something I found out playing around today...On ION, you can access FCB soft keys by using the encoder page keys

eg  Ch 1 [focus encoder page] [home] [enter] is the same as [1 focus home enter].

I find it useful as the encoder page keys are right there, so you don't have to reach for the touchscreen or mouse.

If you are in table view, you can also mimic pressing the intensity softkey by pressing the select button

eg.  [1][select][make null][enter] is the same as [1] [intensity][make null][enter].  Again - I find it very handy as you don't have to reach away from the face panel to get to the [intensity] button on the touchscreen or with the mouse
 

I am really excited about this easy method of lots of varied effects:

1. Make an Intensity Palette 1 with all lights at full.

2. Make an Intensity Palette 2 with all lights at 0.

3  Make an Absolute Effect with two Actions- Intensity Palette 1, and Intensity Pallete 2.

4  Make four or five copies of this effect, each with a diffferent Spread and/or Trail.

Now you can select any group of channels and have them do any of these effects.

I have six systems of thirty overheads and each of these effects create really cool patterns. 

This also works with scrollers- Color Palette 1 (Frame 1) and Color Palette 2 (Last Frame).

So Easy!

Did you know that many of the hardkeys on Eos/Ion can be used within labels? If you're constantly creating cues labeled "Mark", you can be really lazy and say [Label][Mark][Enter]. This will even work within longer labels, such as [Label] Godot goes [Home][Enter]