• State Not Answered
  • +1 person also asked this people also asked this
  • Date
    AMTLighting
  • Date
  • Replies 4 replies
  • Subscribers 189 subscribers
  • Views 824 views
  • Users 0 members are here

Add thumbnails for external media servers

Hi folks,

I'm on a desk with version 3.1.3 b8. I've noticed that the Virtual Media Server Layers and Effect Layers include thumbnails for each file of content. I know Eos currently doesn't support CITP, so it cannot pull thumbnails directly from other media servers, but is there a way to manually add thumbnails?

For example, I recently did a show with a number of HES ShowPix units that have onboard media servers with standard libraries of content. I didn't have a chance to make Beam Palettes for each media file I wanted to use, and I often found myself randomly selecting files until I memorized the ones I liked. It would have been great to be able see some kind of thumbnail for each file. Or, more practically, even seeing the names for each file would have helped significantly.

Thanks in advance!

Parents
  • 0

    I have a couple of suggestions.  The thumbnails in ML controls are generated by looking at files in the Media Archive, so if you load images into Library 001 and give them leading 3-digit values ("001_circle") you will see their thumbnails.

    You can also edit the Fixture Profile to give yourself useful names.  The default is "FIP ###" but you can change that to whatever you like in the Range Editor.  

Reply
  • 0

    I have a couple of suggestions.  The thumbnails in ML controls are generated by looking at files in the Media Archive, so if you load images into Library 001 and give them leading 3-digit values ("001_circle") you will see their thumbnails.

    You can also edit the Fixture Profile to give yourself useful names.  The default is "FIP ###" but you can change that to whatever you like in the Range Editor.  

Children
Related

www.etcconnect.com