Intensity Palettes?

If you make the IPs 'Absolute' then when you put the channel at an IP the channel will show as a percentage (it'll also be absolute.) 

Absolute pops up as a soft key when you are in the IP tab. 

HTH,

Andrew

Andrew's method is good, but will mean that you no longer reference the IP when you record a cue. This may be OK, but if you want to use referenced data throughout your cuelist it's not so good.

If you want to view the actual levels behind the IP reference you can hold down the Data key to display the values. Or, if you keep the 'About' window open you'll be able to see the absolute values for the selected channels there.

Graham

Are you labeling your intensity pallets?  

Yes I am labelling the palette. My issue is that when the designer is asking what is channel ? at I have to be able to tell them. By default the ion has the palette # as a reference. I think that it would be better to have the percentage present and have the reference as part of the tile data.

I will have to try that later. I am sure that will suffice. Still it would be great to have the info in the tile by default.

If you were to label the Palette "IP75" for 75%, and enable the setting to Display References, would that help solve the problem? Re-labelling an IP is easy...

Labeling the IP with the level is useful in a busking situation or when using the IP's for quick programming via touch screen, (I have done this when using by type IPs) but I think in the OP's situation he may be dealing with an IP that has different levels for different channels.

-Todd

That is a good idea, but I am looking to use the IP more as a focus point. I have several keys that need to be adjusted everyday depending on who they are lighting. I want to use a palette and update the palette and then be done. I have around the issue by creating a macro that pulls the levels from a reference cue and copying it to the cues that I need it in. A palette would theoretically do the same thing.

So here's a crazy thought-

• make a dummy channel in your show- not patched to anything useful
• build your IP's and record, including the dummy channel in each IP
• name them in a meaningful way - "joe's key", "bob's key", "betty's key"
• build a macro to update your cues that recalls the IP with absolute values, and then recalls same IP for the dummy channel as a referenced value.
• this way you can see the label on the dummy channel, but the other channels will have absolute data

Would that work for you?  You would still have lost the association to the IP for the channels with absolute values, but there would also be a reference label for you to quickly see what IP you pulled the values from.

Of course, this is probably not saving much work if we're talking about modifying a lot of cues every day...

If it is more important to always have the actual values visible without having to hold down the Data key, I would give this a try.  If you just want to update one IP and be done, but can live with holding down the Data key when necessary, then do it that way- it is a lot less work.

-Todd

Wow that seemed complicated. My work around went like this.

We always set the levels for the same channels during the morning using say cue 10.

I adjust the block of channels and update cue 10

Then in blind I run my macro

macro= cue 1 thru 5 + 15 <enter> (channels) <recall from cue> 10 <enter>

This will pull the levels from cue 10 and put it in all the cues that I need.

This has worked for me. If I could use the palette I would just have to reference the palette in all of these cues and update the palette and be done.

I interpreted your situation as perhaps a show with a different host (out of a group of hosts) for each episode and each host has "their" levels already set.

I see that you make adjustments every day and don't necessarily re-use them, so you are not choosing from already pre-defined setups. 

In that context, my "workaround" is really too complicated and doesn't make sense, so... let's just pretend I didn't post it... :)

-Todd

I interpreted your situation as perhaps a show with a different host (out of a group of hosts) for each episode and each host has "their" levels already set.

I see that you make adjustments every day and don't necessarily re-use them, so you are not choosing from already pre-defined setups. 

In that context, my "workaround" is really too complicated and doesn't make sense, so... let's just pretend I didn't post it... :)

-Todd