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.

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  • Bug: Export Advanced Patch xx thru yy hasn't worked in years

    • 1 Comment
    Bug rather than feature request: If you try to export just a range of channels (export>CSV>advanced>patch xx thru yy) you still end up with the entire show's patch exported to the csv. This has been broken for years (4 or 5 at least).
  • advanced features when changing fixture types - filling gaps in pallettes/presets/cues

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    If one is touring or a play comes to your venue but was built on another rigg it´s nice to just unpatch your original show, change fixture types to the ones that are actually used and patch them in. What happens at that point is that all your pallette...
  • The position materials in the effect can be recorded into the focus template.效果里的位置素材可以被记录到焦点样板中。

    • 0 Comments
    我们可以一些对称的焦点效果获得不错的造型,我需要把这些造型记录在我的焦点样板中进行使用。 Edit by eos.moderator after a conversation with OP: The OP's request is that parameter values generated by effects are recordable while the effect is still applied to the parameters. His workflow...
  • Lock function for Groups (similar to Palettes)

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    I would like to request a Lock feature for Groups , similar to the existing lock options in Color Palettes, Beam Palettes, Focus Palettes, etc. Why this is needed / actual use-case In real programming situations, especially when updating cues quickly...
  • Allow Show Control Events on Analog open or close

    • 0 Comments
    Eos can detect open and close as shown by sub bump, it holds the bump down on contact close, and releases on contact open. I would like to be able to trigger Macro x on contact close, and Macro y on contact open.
  • Allow Users to Configure Default Wheels in Fixture Profiles

    • 2 Comments
    Only manufacturers can set default wheels for fixture profiles, this needs to be exposed to the user. Default wheels for the rep fixtures, making a profile from scratch, correcting a broken default profile all require exposing this to the user. The...
  • Cue Instancing

    • 1 Comment
    Ability to make an 'instance' of a cue, to set and update multiple cues based off the instance at once. Would be useful for blackout cues - if a light is updated to turn on backstage, updating one cue and having Eos handle updating the rest would save...
  • Keyboard Shortcut for [Fader]

    • 0 Comments
    There does not appear to be a keyboard shortcut for the [Fader] hardkey, I don't see a subscript on the Virtual Keyboard and there isn't one listed in the manual Thank you, Steven
  • mark whenever i want despite automark

    • 0 Comments
    as title says from my experience, that's one of the weakpoints in eos. Automark is efficient to not lose time, but this shouldn't forbid to sometimes get the mark somewher else, as soon as possible or whenever i want. Why does it have to be OR automark...
  • Magic Sheets: Reference Data Displays Associated Icon

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    With magic sheets having more finite control of target types available, it would be cool to also be able to link an icon to those targets: two use cases come to mind. More and more, we're giving follow spot operators a heads-up display of some kind...