Favourite Colours

I agree with the need for this, and let me explain how my experience is not solved by any of the above suggestions. This is from a TV/Film perspective, so perhaps a little more on the fly than some other productions. We will have a DP ask for this gel, and then another, "how about this red, how about this blue, how about cyan 90?" etc. and then he'll say, "go back to that red" if i'm not really on my toes and keeping track, I will be caught with my pants down and have to try to figure it out. If I could either manually add these colors to a favorites list or if they would auto-populate like the favorite fixtures do in patch, that would be ideal. If the favorites could have a sub-folders that I could move stuff to and re-name per fixture or set, etc. that would be a nice bonus. Hope no one minds me resurrecting this thread.

-Jeremy

Hey Jeremy,

I will readily admit I don't come from that TV/Film perspective, so I'm curious - when the DP calls for a color, are you digging through the Gel library/picker to find that color?  Or do you already translate "Lee 201" from the DP as Color 3/201 on the command line?

I wonder if a mashup of Gel picker, Color Palettes, and the updated Direct Selects could help here.  For starters, if you already know that when the DP says "red" he is looking for "Lee 106", then you can just put that on the Command Line instead of trying to save it somewhere - Chan x Color 3/106.

On the other hand, if you're making modifications ("I want Lee 106, but can you add some blue to it?"), obviously you want to save that modification - and a Color Palette is the great way to do that.  

You can make a Macro to say "Record Color Palette Next Label".  This will add a Color Palette after the Highest # you have recorded, and put the keyboard up on the screen to name the new CP ("Lee 106 w/Blue").  I would make a CP 800 as a place holder.  Then, each time I make a "new" color I want to keep somewhere, I hit the Macro button and give the newly-created CP a name (L106+Blue).  The console puts it in the next-highest whole number (801, 802, ...) with that name attached so I can remember what the CP actually looks like.

To run with this, I would open a Direct Selects tab with two Banks.  I'd make the first Bank Custom and add my Macro button there.  I'd make the Second bank Color Palettes, and activate Flexi.  That way, as I add new Color Palettes, I see them added to the Direct Selects:

So when I'm asked for a color again, I just select the channels, then tap that DS button to get it called up.  If it looks good on one light, I can [Color] [Recall From] [Chan] x onto the other lights that want it.  And if I want to make more modification to the color, I can either re-save it, or just make a new Color Palette and write out what's different in it's name ("L106+blue+lighter")

The Direct Selects are also nice to use because the window they're in is more flexible than the Color/Gel picker.  Once you have a set of colors for a show you think you'll use often, you can put them on a Custom Direct Select to make it more apparent which ones you normally use.

Hey Jeremy,

I will readily admit I don't come from that TV/Film perspective, so I'm curious - when the DP calls for a color, are you digging through the Gel library/picker to find that color?  Or do you already translate "Lee 201" from the DP as Color 3/201 on the command line?

I wonder if a mashup of Gel picker, Color Palettes, and the updated Direct Selects could help here.  For starters, if you already know that when the DP says "red" he is looking for "Lee 106", then you can just put that on the Command Line instead of trying to save it somewhere - Chan x Color 3/106.

On the other hand, if you're making modifications ("I want Lee 106, but can you add some blue to it?"), obviously you want to save that modification - and a Color Palette is the great way to do that.  

You can make a Macro to say "Record Color Palette Next Label".  This will add a Color Palette after the Highest # you have recorded, and put the keyboard up on the screen to name the new CP ("Lee 106 w/Blue").  I would make a CP 800 as a place holder.  Then, each time I make a "new" color I want to keep somewhere, I hit the Macro button and give the newly-created CP a name (L106+Blue).  The console puts it in the next-highest whole number (801, 802, ...) with that name attached so I can remember what the CP actually looks like.

To run with this, I would open a Direct Selects tab with two Banks.  I'd make the first Bank Custom and add my Macro button there.  I'd make the Second bank Color Palettes, and activate Flexi.  That way, as I add new Color Palettes, I see them added to the Direct Selects:

So when I'm asked for a color again, I just select the channels, then tap that DS button to get it called up.  If it looks good on one light, I can [Color] [Recall From] [Chan] x onto the other lights that want it.  And if I want to make more modification to the color, I can either re-save it, or just make a new Color Palette and write out what's different in it's name ("L106+blue+lighter")

The Direct Selects are also nice to use because the window they're in is more flexible than the Color/Gel picker.  Once you have a set of colors for a show you think you'll use often, you can put them on a Custom Direct Select to make it more apparent which ones you normally use.