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Converting Moving Light values to EOS TI

Hello,

We just recently upgraded to the EOS TI and I have a show that has been converted over from the Obsession 600.

On the 600 all of the moving light attributes were done by channel, I would like to convert those over to just the single channel in the EOS TI. Is there a way to do this?

Since many of the attributes in EOS land don't use the 1-100 levels that the Obsession 600 did I don't know what the conversion would be. Is there a formula I can run the old levels through to get the EOS TI equivalent?

Any help would be appreciated.

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    I don't think there is a way to automatically export/import the data. Your obsession data doesn't map in any way to a fixture profile. You could probably make an excel spreadsheet to convert the data with a few funtions and then rewrite the Q's by hand in the TI. That might be as good as it gets. The basic function to convert a 0-100 percentage to a DMX value would be something like =Round((255/100)*CellwithPercentageValue;0) Some parameters might have a second conversion (Zoom information in 7* to 30* or whatever) - we'd need to know the exact fixtures to say for sure. How many moving lights and how many Q's are you looking at?
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    The other option is to edit the fixture from the Ti and make the user range 0-100% for each parameter on the new single channel. You'll then need to take each 600 channel and add the correct parameter for that channel.

    So for example channel 1 is the new single channel with the fixture edited so user values are 0-100%

    Channel 602 intensity equals Pan, you'll need to add a part to 602 in patch for pan which also has a user values 0-100%.

    Now in blind cues, select all you cues (cue 1 Thru Enter) and copy 602 intensity to 602 pan (the new parameter). You can now copy 602 Pan to channel 1 pan.

    This is going to take a long time if you have lots of movers and lots of parameters and you'll still be stuck which a mover with each range as 0-100%  but this maybe better the using 600 channels.

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    Thanks, There are only 6 units and they are Studio Spot 575. I've got the time so I will try putting everything in an Excel sheet and converting it over then reprogramming it offline.
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