Best Way to Quickly Update Focus Palettes?

Michael,

There are a few things that could help you out here.  

First, using a combination of Direct Selects and the [Select Last] key would save you valuable typing time.  If you made a cue list that stepped through your instruments/focus palettes, using the [Select Active] for each of the cues would also speed up the process.  On Eos, this is a hard key, but on Ion, you need to press and hold [Select Last] and it appears as a softkey.  Once these are selected, you can use the next and last keys to move through the list.

Second, the Highlight function seems to be ideal for a situation like this -- you can define the Highlight preset in {Displays} > {Setup} > {Desk} > {Manual Control}, and it is a simple toggle state   If you also turn on the Highlight/Lowlight Rem Dim option while you're there, channels that aren't selected will drop to the Rem Dim level.

Finally, you can toggle the default update style in {Setup} > {Desk} > {Record Defaults}, and specify that Update Style should by Ref Only. 

There are many ways to approach it, but this would be what I'd do if I was doing a mover focus.

Hans

Michael,

There are a few things that could help you out here.  

First, using a combination of Direct Selects and the [Select Last] key would save you valuable typing time.  If you made a cue list that stepped through your instruments/focus palettes, using the [Select Active] for each of the cues would also speed up the process.  On Eos, this is a hard key, but on Ion, you need to press and hold [Select Last] and it appears as a softkey.  Once these are selected, you can use the next and last keys to move through the list.

Second, the Highlight function seems to be ideal for a situation like this -- you can define the Highlight preset in {Displays} > {Setup} > {Desk} > {Manual Control}, and it is a simple toggle state   If you also turn on the Highlight/Lowlight Rem Dim option while you're there, channels that aren't selected will drop to the Rem Dim level.

Finally, you can toggle the default update style in {Setup} > {Desk} > {Record Defaults}, and specify that Update Style should by Ref Only. 

There are many ways to approach it, but this would be what I'd do if I was doing a mover focus.

Hans

Thanks for the replies. After I read these, I realized I just wasn't thinking straight. I had tried Rem Dim, Highlight, and just Next-ing through, on a cue list that put my movers in the focus points that needed to be adjusted, but for some reason I was trying to Update the references after each fixture rather than after each reference. I'm not sure why I was trying to do it that way, but now its very easy to just Next through my fixtures using a combination of Select Active and Highlight, then just update after I've adjusted all the fixtures.

Thanks!

Michael