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Importing Strand Shows

Hi there

 

I am reprogramming a show on the eos that was originally programmed on a strand 520.  The show loaded across brilliantly and better then I expected it would.  Some of the effects didn't come across perfectly (mainly because they are CMY colour chases programmed as step chases, etc).  These needed to be reprogrammed as relative or absolute FX, (which is fine by me - made them alot neater) but the one major downside was the part cues

 The show has lots of part cues and I found all channel values ended up in the highest cue part.  For example, ch 1 > 5 should be in part1, ch 6>10 in part2, and the rest in part 3.  Instead all channels ended up in part 3.  Does anyone know of a way to fix this?  Going through all 527 cue parts and putting channels back into their correct parts is a bit of a dull and time consuming task

 

Cheers

Brent
 

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  • BrentFJ:
    The show has lots of part cues and I found all channel values ended up in the highest cue part.  For example, ch 1 > 5 should be in part1, ch 6>10 in part2, and the rest in part 3.  Instead all channels ended up in part 3.  Does anyone know of a way to fix this?  Going through all 527 cue parts and putting channels back into their correct parts is a bit of a dull and time consuming task

    We've seen the same thing, but we didn't have nearly that many part cues so it wasn't that big of a deal.  What's funny though is the 500's would chew up part cues when importing from earlier Strand boards.

    B

     

  • in reply to BSmith

    Hi Ann and Dan

    I've just emailed those show files through to you.  Enjoy

     Cheers

  • in reply to BrentFJ

    Thanks Brent.  I have the files and will let you know what I find.

     

     

  • in reply to afoster

    Hi Brent, 

    Wow, this was a great show for debugging!  I found the cause of the problem with the part cues, and in the process discovered one more issue,  which is that the Strand ASCII show usually writes out the moves to zero in the part cues, but occasionally does not.  We were not detecting the moves that were missing, but we should be, so I have fixed this as well.  These will be available in the 1.4 release.

     Thanks so much for your input, and for sending the showfile.  If you need to convert another show before 1.4 is out, please let me know and I will see what I can do for you.

     

     

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  • in reply to afoster

    Hi Brent, 

    Wow, this was a great show for debugging!  I found the cause of the problem with the part cues, and in the process discovered one more issue,  which is that the Strand ASCII show usually writes out the moves to zero in the part cues, but occasionally does not.  We were not detecting the moves that were missing, but we should be, so I have fixed this as well.  These will be available in the 1.4 release.

     Thanks so much for your input, and for sending the showfile.  If you need to convert another show before 1.4 is out, please let me know and I will see what I can do for you.

     

     

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