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Morphing fixtures for touring

Hi All,

I'll be right up front and tell you that I'm an MA guy, but I'm using a GIO constantly now that I'm working at a theatre. I have a client that wants me to build a show that he can take on tour. My question is, how do you morph (ma term) fixture on any EOS consoles? For those of you not familiar with the term "morphing":

Venue 1 has mac 700s. When I go to venue 2 I want the moving head spot fixtures there to do the same thing (within parameter capabilities) in the show file that the Mac 700s did the night before. In the MA world that's basically fixture morphing. I did a search on it here (and on youtube) and nothing came up for morphing on ETC consoles.

Is it as simple as just changing the fixture type for those particular channels? Will the parameter and show info just hop right over to the new spots? Any guidance here would be appreciated. 

Cheers

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    You would just change the fixture type in patch and parameters should just work.

    The one caveat is by type pallets wont "just work" as they are by type and the type will have changed, so they would need fixing up manually unless someone else knows a smarter way. I leave one fixture patched as the old type apply the pallette to it and copy that to one fixture of the new type and then save the change in the pallet so its defined for both types. I use a macro for that.

    Maybe someone will chime in with a built in way of fixing up the by type palettes.
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    You would just change the fixture type in patch and parameters should just work.

    The one caveat is by type pallets wont "just work" as they are by type and the type will have changed, so they would need fixing up manually unless someone else knows a smarter way. I leave one fixture patched as the old type apply the pallette to it and copy that to one fixture of the new type and then save the change in the pallet so its defined for both types. I use a macro for that.

    Maybe someone will chime in with a built in way of fixing up the by type palettes.
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    Would other palettes work? Presets, focus etc?

    What's the best way of adding more of the same fixture to a show file?

    Thanks

  • 0 in reply to Starkey

    If they are the same fixtures then by type palettes would work without needing to do anything.

    Except of course its unlikely you'd have by type focus palettes as other than perhaps a set of lights that are giving parallel beams of light, they are not all going to have the same pan and tilt values to point somewhere.  But anyway in a different venue and with additional fixtures you'd be refocussing anyway.

    For the presets you probably would want to make them reference palettes at least for colour as then you can have a mix of by type for colour and individual for focus and intensity in the preset)

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