Favourite Colours

Hey Guys,

Something I'd love to see, if it isn't already in existence;

With the new colour screen, add a new tab in the gel picker to have Favourites so a collection of various gels from different manufactures in one tab.

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Mattfrankish over 9 years ago

This would be great. Could you use the "show" tab to make a set of favorites? I'm not sure exactly how that tab is populated, but you could make a fake scroller that doesn't really exist that has all of those colours.
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dsmurfin over 9 years ago in reply to Mattfrankish

The show tab is in essence already a favourites tab. In fact it was called that during beta. It currently shows colours used in your show such as scrollers etc.
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Mattfrankish over 9 years ago in reply to dsmurfin

Aside from adding a scroller to the show, how else can you add colours to that tab?
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jonyrainsforth over 9 years ago in reply to dsmurfin

Hi Dan,

Indeed, I knew this, but, what I was more aiming for was when Im prepping a show file, I in some cases get a list of fav colours from the designer.

I could just create a gel string with all those colours but, it would be nice to just create that list within the colour picker itself.
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RickR over 9 years ago in reply to jonyrainsforth

Am I missing something? Isn't this a job for Color Palettes? We get 1000, so using 50-100 for the most likely doesn't seem unreasonable.

If I understand, if the color is in a palette then it would show up in the "show" tab. I have a list that I keep in a template file, to copy or merge as needed. Being a Palette also makes them really easy to use, shouldn't that be the purpose of a favorites list?

BTW: I'm not fond of 'favorites' unless they really are a list that I control. The Patch list gets over crowded. Just because it was used in a show, and maybe deleted, doesn't make it a fav!
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jonyrainsforth over 9 years ago in reply to RickR

Yes, but creating a CP requires patching a channel then creating a By Type, but when I work with designers often, I can have a template with their more than likely colours in the Favourites page of the Colour Picker without having to know what fixtures the design will be using thus potentially making the CP useless.
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jonyrainsforth over 9 years ago in reply to RickR

Yes, but creating a CP requires patching a channel then creating a By Type, but when I work with designers often, I can have a template with their more than likely colours in the Favourites page of the Colour Picker without having to know what fixtures the design will be using thus potentially making the CP useless.
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RickR over 9 years ago in reply to jonyrainsforth

I don't find updating the CPs to be an issue, and it does populate the show tab. To each their own, is part of what we love about Eos!

You might like Patrick Boozers solution in a CUE talk: https://www.etcconnect.com/About/Cue/Videos.aspx He created a fixture profile that has "All" the possible parameters so when he changes the fixture types to start a show he keeps all the info attached to the channel. Apparently that is a lot more than a few palettes!
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sktusing over 9 years ago in reply to RickR

I use a modified version of what Patrick does - instead of using absolute data for my reference channel, I use the stock colors (e.g. 5/00, 3/201). When doing a "copy to" or "recall from" with these it doesn't matter what the color parameters are in the target channel the data will still transfer. It's a crapshoot for how good the color match is (better with 2.3!), but it allows fixtures that are calibrated to get that much closer.
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