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Two Faces of OUT

I'm not sure if anyone's talked about this here, but I discovered that the OUT key is linked to the home preset in NIP functions.  For example, if I have an AutoYoke and I set the Iris to 50% in the home preset, every time I use the OUT key on the Iris, it goes to 50% instead of zero.  This became an issue when I was trying to troubleshoot an iris and I couldn't figure out why it wasn't responding.  At least for me, when I program, I HOME the light when I want that output and OUT is always an @ 0 command. What do others think?  Should there be a way to toggle between the two OUT options?  Or should I learn the change in syntax to @ 0 Enter when I deal with NIP's?

  • Thought it would be helpful to add a bit more info here.  When you press [Out], we reset the parameter to the default value derived from the library (aka home).   So, if you have not set a "home" preset, out and home achieve the same result.  If you have set a home preset, the home button takes the parameter to your defined "home" position.  The Out button always sets the parameter to the library home value.  The "0" key always set the parameter to a zero value.

    While you all are thinking about Dawn's question, thought this might be useful to clarify.

    a

     

  • in reply to Anne Valentino

    Anne,

    This comes as a surprise to me and I'm surprised that I haven't run into this yet.  I thought that Out would and should affect Intensities only.  I'm open to being convinced otherwise.  Anyone?  But how about this-  We set the Home Preset because we are dissatisfied with the Library home values in some way.  Why do we need a key (especially one used very often, and 99% for Intensity) to take a light to a value we didn't like in the first place? 

    Please clarify a little more.

    B 

  • in reply to BSmith

    I can think of an example! Imagine you have a home preset set up to point your Macs centre stage - this is largely a programming convention, so that you can home a light and know where to look for the shininess to be. You also have zoom set to halfway, perhaps, and other nicities for your style of programming. During each dinner break, though, you want to set the Macs to straight down, open white, everything open to allow them to breathe. [Macs][All NPs][Out] will do that.

    Just a thought - I did this all the time on my last show but I didn't know that [Out] would work so I said [Macs][Pan][Tilt][0] each time.

    -luke-

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