Favourite Colours

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!

Show colors is also populated from patch. In the Data Base tile, you will see an entry for Gel (near where you set keywords). If you select a channel, click on the gel tile, and from the color picker select the gel you want, that gel populates into Show Colors. This information can also come in from a LW import. And as Dan said, your scroller loads will be there. The primary intent was to give the moving light programmer the conventional palette for the show, to help him/her out building color palettes or if s/he said "make it like the blue in that fixture there"... you'd have an idea of where to start.

Does that make sense?

Anne

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!

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!

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.