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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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  • Some form of a Beginner Mode is already available on Element, which is the entry-level option for this product line. User-level access controls will cover most of the rest of these requests, I recon... at least as they apply to a professional, modern lighting console like the Eos. I don't think that user-selectable feature sets are practical from a software development perspective. All of the features of the Eos product line are interconnected in some way. I can only imagine the edge-cases you could get your console into if you started disabling them one by one.

    I will grant that there are venues in the world that have an Ion but would have been better served by Element (and the opposite as well). That's a marketing and sales problem. That's an education and training problem. That's not a problem with the products themselves.

    I won't comment on the rest of that blog post except to say:  To argue that the Eos product line suffers from some sort of feature-bloat, while simultaneously arguing that it should be able to edit google docs and post to Facebook is patently absurd. To argue that students or other entry-level users would be better served by having less access to the features we use at the highest professional levels is contradictory, at best.

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  • Some form of a Beginner Mode is already available on Element, which is the entry-level option for this product line. User-level access controls will cover most of the rest of these requests, I recon... at least as they apply to a professional, modern lighting console like the Eos. I don't think that user-selectable feature sets are practical from a software development perspective. All of the features of the Eos product line are interconnected in some way. I can only imagine the edge-cases you could get your console into if you started disabling them one by one.

    I will grant that there are venues in the world that have an Ion but would have been better served by Element (and the opposite as well). That's a marketing and sales problem. That's an education and training problem. That's not a problem with the products themselves.

    I won't comment on the rest of that blog post except to say:  To argue that the Eos product line suffers from some sort of feature-bloat, while simultaneously arguing that it should be able to edit google docs and post to Facebook is patently absurd. To argue that students or other entry-level users would be better served by having less access to the features we use at the highest professional levels is contradictory, at best.

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