Hello All,
Is it possible to copy a custom color scroll that I created to my current show. Not necessarily the channels but the color names and positions?
thanks much!
Pat
the calibration is not something you *have* to do. it exists to correct minor offsets of individual scollers. and because they will differ from scroller to scroller, they can't be imported. i guess you would have to (if you need calibration at all) do it once and then work off of this show as basic showfile.
This is an issue that I've been chasing for years now. Was just checking in to see if there is a solution yet.
We have around 150 Coloram 2's in two sizes with 26 frame color strings that get used often but in different channels for each show. When I build a custom scroll in the console and attach it to a channel, the first and last few frames line up but the majority of the ones in the middle drift to split frames.
"If I were to use the custom scroll feature, it would require calibrating all the channels to make the frames line up."
It wouldn't be such a big deal to do that if someone could help me figure out a simple method of transfering that data from show to show- accounting for the fact that my scroller channels move around per show.
Right now, and for the past four years, the simplest solution is to just use color palettes and move on. The CP's are easy to merge from show to show. However, in the back of my mind, I think it would be cool one day to call up frames on the encoder and see the little picture of the gel there on the screen.
Just thinking out loud. I'm not sure that it actually works, but...
If you move a channel in Patch, does the calibration follow it?
So when starting a new show, take your last show file. Delete all channels except for the channels with scrolls. Take all the scroll channels and move them ([copy to] [ copy to]) up 1000 channels. Then start moving them back down to their new channel numbers. After moving them, you can probably patch them all at channel 0.
After moving everything, go back to live and delete all cue lists so that the old cue data is gone and I guess trash any other beam pallets, focus pallets etc... that don't apply to the new show.
As I said, I have no idea if this will actually work, but I would hope that calibration data is treated like everything else that moves with a channel.
Just thinking out loud. I'm not sure that it actually works, but...
If you move a channel in Patch, does the calibration follow it?
So when starting a new show, take your last show file. Delete all channels except for the channels with scrolls. Take all the scroll channels and move them ([copy to] [ copy to]) up 1000 channels. Then start moving them back down to their new channel numbers. After moving them, you can probably patch them all at channel 0.
After moving everything, go back to live and delete all cue lists so that the old cue data is gone and I guess trash any other beam pallets, focus pallets etc... that don't apply to the new show.
As I said, I have no idea if this will actually work, but I would hope that calibration data is treated like everything else that moves with a channel.
Any word on a way to copy custom calibrations between show files? Merge "Fixtures" will bring in new scrolls associated with the fixtures however the custom calibration does not copy over. To me this means that any custom calibration is assigned per fixture and into in the TYPE field.
Also is there something magical about using Merge -> Advanced -> Fixttures. In the START and END fields I can't seem to define any data.
