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    rhdgs
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Looking for shortcuts

ok first off the more I use my ION the better I like it. It's not perfect but its dang close and with each new version released I get more and more excited.

With that out of the way I find myself performing a couple of task over and over again and I was wondering if there are any shortcuts to make these operations faster.

First the color picker rocks but is there a faster way to get to it other than using the browser? I had hoped COLOR COLOR wold do it but to no avail, wile i am here why was there no CLOSE button on the color picker? Maybe it's just me but I wish I could both bring up and get rid of the color picker faster (ie fewer key strokes/arm movement)

Second, a shortcut to make a parameter null while using the encoders. When I push in an encoder I get all kinds of useful shortcuts but not for making the current parameter null.

Any shortcuts, advice or explanations will be greatly appreciated.

  • You could build a quick Macro to take you to the colour (Canadian spelling) picker. You could also make a macro which takes you back to the browser. Easy. We have and EOS with the snapshots but I still prefer to use macros for jumping around features and record targets.

    -CTR

     

  • in reply to clayton.rodney

    Yea I will do that for now if that is my best option. Does anyone know if there is a product like x-keys that I could use to get half a dozen programmable keys that I could assign to a macro  or another function/button like STOP EFFECT? The EOS has I think 3 or 4 direct macro keys but  my beautiful little ION has none.

  • in reply to rhdgs

    Another quick way to stop an effect is [effect # @ enter]  This will post to the command line "effect # stop effect"

    If you press and release and encoder, it will post that parameter to the command line.  The {make null} softkey should then be just below the main LCD screen, so not too far to reach.  eg: to make the pan on chan 5 null [5][pan encoder]{make null} [enter].  You can also use the parameter selection hardkeys that are used to change encoder pages for selecting parameter groups.  IE: focus, colour, beam (note that image, form, and shutter all post "beam" to the command line)

    hope that helps :-) 

  • in reply to BrentFJ

    Sweet the press and release works great to select individual para mentors.

     I must confess I am a bit of an idiot I realized when I was in front of the board today that I can get to the color selector by hitting DISPLAY then the soft key for the color picker. However it seems this will only open it in the CIA not full screen the way it does when I select it from the browser.

    Also I played around with creating some macros but mouse clicks in the browser are not recorded. I did not have time to try using console keys to navigate the browser so I still may have a suitable work around yet.

    Thanks for all the help!
    -R

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