EOS to ADB show file conversion using ASCII

Hi Cookie-

The Eos ASCII file should contain all of the channel levels for a cue, as well as a $$ manufacturer-specific tag to show the channel moves. For example, my cue 5 has channel 5 as a move, but 1-4 tracking:

$$ChanMove 5@Hff
Chan 1@Hff 2@Hff 3@Hff 4@Hff 5@Hff

So I'm not sure why the ADB would read it? You could play with using percentages instead of hexadecimal levels in the export dialogue, which should give you this with the same example show:

$$ChanMove 5@Hff
Chan 1@100 2@100 3@100 4@100 5@100

You could also try turning off the manufacturer-specific tags in the export, giving a rather more mundane:

Cue 5 1
Up 5
Down 5
Chan 1@Hff 2@Hff 3@Hff 4@Hff 5@Hff

Let us know what you find!
Luke

Hi Luke,

Thanks for the reply. On further investigation it appears to be something specific to my show file. I made a test show with 5 channels & 5 cues and all the tracking info appears in each cues when I view the ASCII file in a text reader:

Cue 1 1
Up 5
Down 5
Chan 1@50

Cue 2 1
Up 5
Down 5
Chan 1@50 2@50

Cue 3 1
Up 5
Down 5
Chan 1@50 2@50 3@50

Cue 4 1
Up 5
Down 5
Chan 1@50 2@50 3@50 4@50

Cue 5 1
Up 5
Down 5
Chan 1@50 2@50 3@50 4@50 5@50

All appears as you would expect.

But when I export the production show file, Cue 102 (Which should only take the house lights to half) shows only the house light channel level and not the tracked channels from cue 101:

Cue 101 1
Part 1
Up 5
Down 5
Chan 75@50 84@61 85@61 86@61 87@61 88@61 90@70 91@50 92@50 93@50 95@45
Chan 96@40 97@45 98@50 99@70 101@70 102@70 105@60 106@80 107@50 108@60
Chan 109@60 111@40 112@100 114@100 115@90 116@100 213@100 214@100
Chan 1000@100

Part 20
Up 0
Down 0

Text Act I Preset

Cue 102 1
Part 1
Up 7
Down 7
Chan 1000@50

Part 20
Up 5
Down 5

Text House to half

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Any thoughts much appreciated.

Cheers,

Cookie

Hi Luke,

Thanks for the reply. On further investigation it appears to be something specific to my show file. I made a test show with 5 channels & 5 cues and all the tracking info appears in each cues when I view the ASCII file in a text reader:

Cue 1 1
Up 5
Down 5
Chan 1@50

Cue 2 1
Up 5
Down 5
Chan 1@50 2@50

Cue 3 1
Up 5
Down 5
Chan 1@50 2@50 3@50

Cue 4 1
Up 5
Down 5
Chan 1@50 2@50 3@50 4@50

Cue 5 1
Up 5
Down 5
Chan 1@50 2@50 3@50 4@50 5@50

All appears as you would expect.

But when I export the production show file, Cue 102 (Which should only take the house lights to half) shows only the house light channel level and not the tracked channels from cue 101:

Cue 101 1
Part 1
Up 5
Down 5
Chan 75@50 84@61 85@61 86@61 87@61 88@61 90@70 91@50 92@50 93@50 95@45
Chan 96@40 97@45 98@50 99@70 101@70 102@70 105@60 106@80 107@50 108@60
Chan 109@60 111@40 112@100 114@100 115@90 116@100 213@100 214@100
Chan 1000@100

Part 20
Up 0
Down 0

Text Act I Preset

Cue 102 1
Part 1
Up 7
Down 7
Chan 1000@50

Part 20
Up 5
Down 5

Text House to half

-----------------------

Any thoughts much appreciated.

Cheers,

Cookie

Hmmm, can you send me the showfile? luke.delwiche@ ...

On the way.

OK, so just to draw a line under this thread and incase anyone else comes across the same problem, here’s what Luke kindly worked out for me:

I was using empty Part 20 cues as Mark cues. (Just my preference to keep things tidy). When I did an ASCII export, the EOS seemed to have a conflict with the empty part cues and would only export changes in channel levels for all parts of those cues and not the tracked channel levels from previous cues.

As we were moving to an ADB desk for the next residency, and the ADB does Marks in a different way, I deleted out the Part 20 cues and all the tracking information then exported fine.