Feature and improvement suggestions

Feedback from users like you help us shape and improve Eos for all productions. We receive a large number of feature requests and suggestions from many sources, including this forum. Your comments and votes help us understand which features you’re passionate about, but there are many additional factors which inform development prioritization for any given release.

The most helpful information you can provide us when commenting on issues is how a particular suggestion would help you. If you describe your use-case and how the suggested change would benefit your work, it lets us gain a much deeper understanding of the need behind the suggestion. Suggestions often have an impact on what we work on, even if we ultimately choose not to implement a suggestion exactly as it’s described. Our ultimate goal is to understand what you and all users need and to create solutions that meet those needs. Occasionally, that’ll mean implementing a suggestion as described, but it usually means working to understand the need behind the suggestion and how we can meet that need for as many users as possible.

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  • New Magic Sheet field to indicate source

    Ed Saunders
    • Submitted on
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    Requesting the addition of ‘Source’ as a field in magic sheet symbols, as lifted straight from the ‘About’ channel CIA display. Really useful for studio and event contexts where we’re running shows off a mix of subs and cues and want to quickly read...

  • Copy Target Icons

    welph
    • Submitted on
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    Now that we have icons, would be great to be able to copy Icons. [Beam Palette] [1] [Copy To] brings up a softkey to only copy labels. Can we have a 2nd soft key for Icon to copy the icon only over to other beam palettes?

  • Rename Effect "Trail" to "Distance"

    Theatermachine
    • Submitted on
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    Without reading the manual (and even when you do) the word "Trail" in the context of Eos effects is very easy to misunderstand. Almost everybody seems to understand this word as the trailing (comet effect) of an effect. "Trail" does however control how...

  • Save colors in ProPhoto colorspace in color palettes

    Theatermachine
    • Submitted on
    • 2 Comments
    I would like to see the colors saved as an x, y coordinate in the ProPhote Colorspace when stored to Color Palettes. This could be as a new way (like ByType) of storing (Universal colorsystem for instance). This way it is easier to exchange fixtures in...

  • Remove parenthesis in offset option.

    Ben Garcia
    • Submitted on
    • 1 Comment
    If I have a lot of fixtures, I may want to select 4th fixture, then every 4th+1 fixture. This is useful in instances where you are fanning an array or grid of fixtures and want to create interesting curvy looking beams using pan/tilt, but do not want...

  • Smoothly fade between cues when an effect is adjusting parameters such as trail, grouping, etc.

    bernat
    • Submitted on
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    When you modify channel grouping, trails, or any other aspect related to channel redistribution within cues, the effect abruptly snaps, irrespective of cue or effect timing. I desire the capability to create a seamless fade between changes, allowing the...

  • Add a Readonly toggle switch to show file

    Tom Shorrock
    • Submitted on
    • 1 Comment
    I'd like to propose a read-only toggle switch function. Why: For higher ed and k-12 situations, we have labs where students start from a base show file on the console. Yes, instructions say the first thing to do is a save as command. Students do not...

  • Always display DMX Grid in Patch>Patch

    C.Osborne
    • Submitted on
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    I often want to look at DMX usage per universe before making a choice about patch actions. Since the space is otherwise just a blank screen, it would be nice if the DMX grid is always be displayed and navigable in Patch>Patch even when no channel is selected...

  • Patch Offset

    tylerandrew
    • Submitted on
    • 3 Comments
    It would be nice to be able to define an offset in patch for various paramaters. Specificaly for pan tilt this would be super helpful. Imagine a fixture was hung 90° the wrong way, in patch you could set a pan offset of -90. Then pan 0 is where you expect...

  • Record Effects into Palettes, like Presets do

    Shadow20X6
    • Submitted on
    • 1 Comment
    That's what it is. If you're running an Intensity Effect over the fixtures that should be recorded into the Intensity Palette. I want all the data that's contributing to this live look when I record the Palette. This would make it easier to busk since...

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