Showing Parked Values in Live

What I've done for Aisle lights, running lights etc, is to park them at full (or what ever level).

Then, in Live, manually bring up the channels to their level (Park is still in effect), Record the live settings into a Intensity Palette, label the IP, and record that to a submaster.

Sneak everything out (Park still has the channels up), run up the sub, and the channels will show the small white P and the name of the intensity palette, so I know the purpose of the channel (I don't really care about the intensity behind the IP or the Sub).

You could write a macro to bring the channels up to IP ##, if you don't have any sub handles.

This wouldn't solve your last point about having the level field open for show cue values.  But if the Power supply is parked, what other show level values would you want to show through cuing for such a channel??

HTH

Andrew Riter

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

We park channels all of the time and perhaps Parked Submasters might be a solution. That way things like hard power could be dumped onto a sub and easily labelled. This would make them show specific, and their intensities would be displayed on screen. Currently if I park a channel at full and another at zero and do a Goto Q0 the intensity for both disappears from my display. It would be good to be able to tell at a glance what is parked off and what is parked on, especially when we swap programmers.

Nathan Reynard.

Theatre Royal Newcastle.

We park channels all of the time and perhaps Parked Submasters might be a solution. That way things like hard power could be dumped onto a sub and easily labelled. This would make them show specific, and their intensities would be displayed on screen. Currently if I park a channel at full and another at zero and do a Goto Q0 the intensity for both disappears from my display. It would be good to be able to tell at a glance what is parked off and what is parked on, especially when we swap programmers.

Nathan Reynard.

Theatre Royal Newcastle.

We have, I think two main reasons for using park.  One is for channels that should always be on at a level -- power supplies, aisle lights, etc.  In that case seeing the level or IP label is useful.

The other is for temporary fixes -- the light with the unresponsive scroller or a flicker, the house lights during a notes session, etc.  In those cases, I prefer to see the programmed level.

I know there has been some discussion of an independent channel flag -- maybe something like that could affect how the channel displays its level while parked.

-Josh

I take the point that there are two main reasons for parking channels, but I like the output display to be an accurate representation of what is actually happening. It's a matter of personal choice I suppose, but I've never been too comfortable with channels that are at level, but not shown to be on at all.

Nathan.