Hej Folks,
I posted the following as a feature request.
What Do you all think of it and how is your procedure in a case like that?
I wouldn't mind an upvote if you like the idea.
Cheers
"Advanced features when changing fixture types - filling gaps in pallettes/presets/cues
If one is touring or a play comes to your venue but was built on another rigg it´s nice to just unpatch your original show, change fixture types to the ones that are actually used and patch them in.
What happens at that point is that all your pallette/preset/cue data that can be translated will be BUT parameters that hasn´t been present in the original fixture will be left out. That results in gaps in the pallettes/presets and in the cues as well.
I expect to adjust my presets anyway and instead of updating them I can re-record them as well so those will be fixed but now I still have those gaps in my cue-list what can result in wrong looks in Qs even with updated presets.
In theater productions I usually use Color-Pallettes and FB-Presets.
When a fixture I used when the show was built had a frost-parameter and the one in the new venue has a light and a heavy frost but no frost-parameter all my qs will have no frost in them even after updatig the presets.
Right now I have to go through my q-list and reapply the updated preset to every q it is used in manually.
I would love to have the option to fill those gaps with home values when changing fixture types in patch.
For palettes it´s relatively easy and for presets I would think that the possibility to decide at least which parameter-groups (IFCB) should be filled up.
The benefit of it would be that I don´t have to re-record my presets but the main improvement would be that I would only need to update the preset and the qs would be correct from then on."
