Hello, all. We have a show every year that runs with a series of "looks". That is, various tungsten channels set to an intensity, saved to an intensity palette, then applied to any number of cues. There might be 9 looks (intensity palettes), repeated over and over in various sequences over the course of several hundred cues. So, for example, look #1 might be repeated 35 times on cues 51, 61, 91, 101, 111, 141, 151, 161, 201, 221, etc., where the last digit is the look #.
IIRC from my last encounter with this show, building all of the cues was a bit of a chore, possibly because I could copy a cue to just a single new cue each time (in v2.2.1). I wonder if there is an easier way. Is it possible in v2.5.1 to create multiple new cues at once from an existing cue? Or is there a method I've missed?
I'm also considering whether it might be possible to build a USITT import file. Still not possible in v2.5.1 to import a CSV, right? Is it possible to import or merge /just/ a Cues section from USITT format to an existing show containing patch and IPs, by removing all other sections from the ASCII file?
Side note: Since I spent the last while parsing the USITT ChanMove value format and hunting for the spec, I'll include the only working link to their v3.0 (1992) spec doc that I've found so far:
http://moicestpilou.free.fr/export/ASCII-protocol.pdf
ETC: could you perhaps host this file as well? I think it will likely last longer with you than on my own site... ;-) It's supposedly on the old USITT site, but that one won't load just now.
The ChanMove intensity percentage is specified in hexadecimal format by DMX level according to the following formula (p89 of the protocol doc linked above):
DMX-level = Round(Percentage * (255/100))
For example, "32@H4d". "H" indicates hexadecimal, "4d" = 30%, or 77/255. In retrospect, seems obvious from some custom fixture library editing I've done, but oh well.
