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Auto-Expanding Palettes

Okay, had a thought.  Would it be a viable option or would enough people see the need for this based on this scenario;

 

You program a palette that has pan and tilt for a bunch of lights, then realize after the fact that you really would have liked to have zoom and iris or a gobo always attached to that focus, but you have already recorded that palette (with only the original pan and tilt values) into many cues.  Could there be an option, should there, to update a palette with more parameters than were originally recorded and have that expand the programming wherever the fixture in that palette was used to include the additional parameters?
 

 What do you think?

 

-j
 

  • Hi Jason,

    I'd occasional see the need (but I personal prefer recording whatever possible & sensible into Presets [esp. Focus and Beam-form parameters together]) ;-)

    My suggestion for the "auto-expanding"-thingy would be keeping the IFCB-Pals "clean" (not mixing parameters) but using an option which could be part of the "Replace with"-feature, like:

    I'd record a preset (combing P/T and Zoom/Focus, filtering out "the rest" like Colour, Int etc) for the devices, and then would try to replace say FP1 with PR1, maybe using Blind Spreadsheet... "mark CUE x thru y, select channel, Focus Pal 1 REPLACE WITH Preset 1"; setting filters could define the PR1-parameters to be used or a little system message could prompt for using Focus-parameters or all parameters of PR1 ...?

    Does this make sense ?

    Cheers, Markus. 

     

  • That's a really interesting idea Jason - and something that could save you a lot of time.   A couple of possibilities.... it could be an option presented as soon as the palette is modified with new data .... or a function that is called separately.   Just curious.... how would you most likely add those changes.... as a live mode update?   If so, we could look at using an extension of the update dialogue box??

    Hmmmm..

    a
  • in reply to Anne Valentino

    The first thing you said, if when you updated a palette with more info for a fixture(s) than was originally recorded into the palette, the option would popup to ask if you wanted to send the additional parameter data into the cues it was used in.

     

    But yeah, I would add them by first grabbing the fixture and putting it into the existing focus and then selecting my filters and merging it back into the palette. 

  • in reply to jabadger
    Got it.  Will kick this around with the developers.  I like the idea a lot.

    a
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