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Intensity Palettes?

Is there a way to use an intensity palette and still see the actual levels. I want to use a palette because I have to transfer levels to several different cues every day.  I have made a macro do transfer the levels but since this is exactly what a palette is used for I figured let us use it. The problem is that the channels only reference the palette and do not show the actual levels. I can not tell the designer what the levels for the channels are during the actual show. Is there a setting or a way to have the channels still show the intensity and have a demarcation that it is in a palette?

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    Not sure if this has been addressed as this thread is a few years old; but I had the same question lately and I kind of came up with a different solution that might be relevant to someone else.

    I store all my 'intensity palettes' as cues on a separate cue stack. for ex. I run lights for a mega church and I store all my intensity for front light for the band on cue 900/1 and the intensity for the sermon look on cue 900/2, than i just have a macro for each look. in my case the macro looks like this:
    1-119 recall from cue 900/1 sneak enter clear command line.

    Essentially its a similar idea as the intensity palette being that its referenced data and then i can just update the look in cue 900/1, this way i get to keep one "palette" if you will, while still getting to see real intensity values in the Magic Sheet

    I know this doesn't fix the whole issue in the original post "and have a demarcation that it is in a palette" but with Magic Sheets you could at least have some sort of color coding.. IE lekos with a red outline are in use from cue 900/1 of course the likeliness of a light being used only in one look is probably 1 in 1000.

    You could also address a fake dimmer, and the value of that channel could tell you which cue list that your data came from. Ex. when channel 500 is at 10 its from 900/1 and if channel 500 is at 20 its from 900/2 etc...

    This is i think the same idea that tdrga was mentioning, however i found that a different cue list helps as I've had tracked data interfere with the local cue in the past.

    -Chris
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    Not sure if this has been addressed as this thread is a few years old; but I had the same question lately and I kind of came up with a different solution that might be relevant to someone else.

    I store all my 'intensity palettes' as cues on a separate cue stack. for ex. I run lights for a mega church and I store all my intensity for front light for the band on cue 900/1 and the intensity for the sermon look on cue 900/2, than i just have a macro for each look. in my case the macro looks like this:
    1-119 recall from cue 900/1 sneak enter clear command line.

    Essentially its a similar idea as the intensity palette being that its referenced data and then i can just update the look in cue 900/1, this way i get to keep one "palette" if you will, while still getting to see real intensity values in the Magic Sheet

    I know this doesn't fix the whole issue in the original post "and have a demarcation that it is in a palette" but with Magic Sheets you could at least have some sort of color coding.. IE lekos with a red outline are in use from cue 900/1 of course the likeliness of a light being used only in one look is probably 1 in 1000.

    You could also address a fake dimmer, and the value of that channel could tell you which cue list that your data came from. Ex. when channel 500 is at 10 its from 900/1 and if channel 500 is at 20 its from 900/2 etc...

    This is i think the same idea that tdrga was mentioning, however i found that a different cue list helps as I've had tracked data interfere with the local cue in the past.

    -Chris
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