Wish list - Beginner mode(s)

A recent LinkedIn article has generated some talk in various forums. Some quite negative, but discussion is always good.

https://tinyurl.com/kpztwwj

One comment suggested that there be several modes; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced or whatever. I like the idea mostly as a learning tool. There are many situations where a highly skilled person has to rely on others to do those basic shows. Or a school where one might have several skill levels around. All the power and complexity are available but you don't get lost in it for a simple job.

My preference would be some sort of feature list or outline with check boxes for each one. Discrete timing, macros, multiple cue lists, pixel mapping, effect editing or just relative effect editing, multi-consoles, maybe even tracking/cue only. I know it's heresy to suggest that some features aren't needed but sometimes more is not better.

I leave it to others sort out such a feature list.

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  • I couldn't agree less.  

    I have read the article, and comments on Facebook and linkedln.  It is written from a very small vision of the lighting world.  I am a firm believer that ETC has done a good job with the Eos family of consoles in keeping the system simple enough to step up to and operate, yet having a robust enough feature set to keep professionals happy programming them.  

    If you don't need a feature don't use it.

    ETC strives to make the defaults of the Eos family the best setting for the most users.  Every single show is different.  

    If the console is constricted to a specific set of features in a particular mode there will be many shows that need a couple features that are in the next feature set and thus have to turn the console up one level.  They are then subjected to a completely different environment than what they have been working in.

    Just my opinion,

     

  • I just waste an hour of my life reading that article and all the comment on LinkedIn, it is full of contradictions by someone that needs to spend less time watching Netflix's on his computer and more time learning how some of the feature in the Eos family could drag him into the current way we work.

    Maybe he'd read this on his phone while driving, a classic from his comments.
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  • I just waste an hour of my life reading that article and all the comment on LinkedIn, it is full of contradictions by someone that needs to spend less time watching Netflix's on his computer and more time learning how some of the feature in the Eos family could drag him into the current way we work.

    Maybe he'd read this on his phone while driving, a classic from his comments.
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