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    Steve Bailey
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Ion wish list

Having just had a terrific Ion demo from Micah at the NY office last week, I wanted to add my own thoughts as to functions I would like to see added.

1) Biggie:  Allow Supermasters on submasters, as per the Emphasis system.  With as many as 200+ subs and/or playbacks available, it would make managing the subs easier, especially with complicated looks created on the subs that need to be mastered and easily controlled .  This is an Emphasis function that is extraordinarily useful and would think it I would have been added to Ion and Eos, given the huge numbers of subs available.  Would be useful for playbacks as well....

 2) Color number (L116 as example) on the encoder wheel LCD screen, if the color was picked from a vendor gel selection.  I believe this is planned as an alternative to name.

3) Expandable and docking Direct selects.  Maybe make it across both touch screens if present ?.  Don't allow the direct select screens to be lost when moving around the CIA menus. 

4)  Another biggie: Plus percentage and Minus percentage level changes with a Shift plus + or - press.   

5) In the OLE, allow a Browse (the PC Hard Drive) function to the Import/Export ASCII functionality.  Currently if you want to import an ASCII file, any file you have or created in another OLE (Expression of Emphasis, Obsession, Showport, etc..) needs to be copied to the Show File Archive folder.  This is counter intuitive to how most Windows folder functions operate.

 Thanks for listening, and great work on these consoles BTW.  Now I understand what all the buzz is about, I'm working on the GM now for some end-of-budget-year funds..... 

Steve Bailey

Brooklyn College

 

 

 

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  • Steve Bailey:

      

    5) In the OLE, allow a Browse (the PC Hard Drive) function to the Import/Export ASCII functionality.  Currently if you want to import an ASCII file, any file you have or created in another OLE (Expression of Emphasis, Obsession, Showport, etc..) needs to be copied to the Show File Archive folder.  This is counter intuitive to how most Windows folder functions operate.

     

    I just wanted to make a quick comment about this... you don't need to copy an ASCII softpatch to the hard drive. If you have it on your USB thumb drive, the console will map it, and you can import from there as long as it has the .asc file extension. I typically will export an ASCII softpatch from Lightwright, but it will not add the file extension automatically, you have to do it when you are naming the file. In windows, you can turn on "show file extensions" if you need to rename the file or change the extension.

  • in reply to Brian Webber

    Brian

    I was checking import functions in the Off-Line Editor (don't have a console - YET !), mostly to ascertain the methods to do allow these functions without sitting at the console, which is what I currently and successfully can do with Emphasis in the OLE. 

    Currently I am not actually able to "merge" a discrete set of cues - I.E. 1-124, from one ASCII file, then 200 - 238 from another, as example.  The most recent import will overwrite the previous.  Ditto with the Lightwright patch file that either has the patch cleared by an imported ASCII cue file, or will load the correct patch, but over-write the cues.  Sigh. 

    Not sure if I'm doing something wrong and need to go back to the manual to make sure I'm  following the steps correctly, before contacting anyone at ETC with annoying questions 

    SB 

  • in reply to Steve Bailey

    This is a trick I learned when using Expression OLE and working with ASCII files.  Open the files first in Notepad and near the beginning of the text there is a line that says "clear all".  If you delete this line and save your file, then when you open it in your OLE it will not delete the information that is not specifically changed, allowing you to merge files.  I think its even in the Expression manual, or somewhere on the ETC site that I found that information several years ago.

    J. R. Lidgett
    Salina Community Theatre

  • in reply to Steve Bailey
    Our ASCII import doesn't have some of the options that loading regular Eos files do, loading an ASCI file always clears all existing data. If you load your ASCII files then save them as Eos files, you can use [Import] to "merge" them with the rest of your data.
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