Ion - swapping monitors

You can still swap monitors, just not in the same sense as the swap key. To move a tab, hold down the tab key (swap on Ion consoles) and use the arrow keys to move it between monitors. I find it incredibly useful to move the direct selects to the right screen while programming and have the channel view on the left screen.

This isn't exactly the same thing, but close...

Highlight the screen you want to move. Hold down the Swap button while pressing either the left or right Page button.  This will move the currently highlighted tab right or left, respectively.

Also- another quick shortcut...holding down the Swap button while pressing the number corresponding to each opened tab will bring that tab "into focus" so it's visible.

Lets say you have no tabs, but 1) Live Channel on the left screen and 2) Playback Status on the right and want to swap.

- With nothing on the command line, Press 1 - Tab, which will now show the Live Channel screen with it's gold border hi-lighted (If touch screen simply press anywhere in the channel screen area) .  You've now selected Live Channel screen.  Now the Press - Tab and and the right Arrow key to move the Live Channel display to the right monitor. 

- Repeat for the Playback Status screen, selecting it and using the Tab and Left Arrow key to move it to the left monitor.

Another thing that took me time to understand, was that in order to change the screen format, the screen whose format you want changed, had to be selected with the gold border hi-lit.  It took me time to figure out how to minimize the Submaster section in order to see more cues in Playback Status.

Steve B.

cheers guys,

some useful tips there. While moving tabs around is great, my bug bear is when using the CIA and accessing the menus. Although I have two touchscreens and can use either, generally I have the CIA and playlist on the furthest away screen because it's not used as often, however when I do come to use the CIA because I have fat fingers I tend to swap the monitors over so the CIA is closest and I don't try and load a show when I meant to save it!

Steve Bailey said:

  You've now selected Live Channel screen.  Now the Press - Tab and and the right Arrow key to move the Live Channel display to the right monitor. 

Steve B.

I had to contact tech support after upgrading to 1.9.  In playing around with the Tab and arrow keys, I had moved a screen to the second monitor, but then the first monitor was left blank.  Nothing like a dark screen to scare you! especially when I couldn't get anything to move into it.

Solution: press TAB once (to shift to the playback screen, for instance), and then TAB Arrow to move it to the first monitor.

Now I've got snapshots set-up so I don't need to worry about swapping screens left and right.  I do miss the ease of that particular command.

I would like to find another term for Left monitor and right monitor when opening Direct selects.  My physical layout has the ETC "left" monitor on the right hand side of the pair, so the DSelects are closest to the operator.  the CIA is on the ETC "Right" monitor, which is located to the left of the other one, and furthest away from the operator.

Ah well.  The ETC customer support on the phone (and here) still rocks, though.

Andrew Riter

I'd like to vote for some means of either swapping screens or moving the CIA.  Monitors at the tech table often get flip-flopped, and I've found having having the CIA on the "far" screen is a necessity.  

Physically switching the screens isn't so hard, but a button press would be nice.

-Josh