I'm a Film & TV programmer and I'm constantly making magic sheet lighting plots and exporting them to send to my gaffer. As far as I know there's two options for exporting these sheets. One in right clicking the magic sheet tab and saving a screenshot and the other in the magic sheet editor Import/Export menu.
Each of these options have advantages and disadvantages, and I'd love to see a few options on how to tweak this.
Saving a screenshot in Live captures the magic sheet exactly as it's seen, which is fine in many scenarios. I often use the "Link to Target Intensity" option on the fill of objects, however, and the screen shot captures the fill intensity at the current level. It's not often feasible to set every fixture to 100 for taking a screenshot, and toggling the "Link to Intensity" on and off is cumbersome.
Exporting from Blind does bypass the "Link to Intensity" but includes the crosshairs and dots in the background. It also doesn't properly display labels and "link to target color".
I've attached some examples to highlight the difference.
I would love to see a menu of export options in the editor including:
- "Display Link to target intensity & color" checkboxes
- "Display Labels"
- Invert background (so we can use black on the console and white if we need to print)
- Clean background (no dots and crosshairs)
- Export resolution (for large maps PNG exports look very pixelated)
Thanks in advance for your consideration!
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