Copying Color Palettes

Question

Is there any way to copy color palettes from one channel to another? I've made all my palettes by type and the palettes include both the old type and the new fixture type. When I copy from old to new type all the intensities transfer nicely, the color becomes hard values and the palettes are not copied over. Help!?

ueliriegg · Answer

found it :) 
 
let's do this with a single channel instead of a range, it behaves the same but i get to type less ;) 
 
1112 copyTo 112 Enter. takes everything in 1112 and tries to put it in 112. enter the cultprit: White. your white is set at 100, it's not included in CP4. so Eos thinks it needs to adjust for that. so it takes the color of 1112 (RGBW) and tries to make sure that the overall color stays the same. but that means it needs to change RGB of 112. 
 
the 3 way around that: 
- you found one of them, the softkey DMX. when copying color the way to circumvent Eos' color conversion algorithm is adding the softkey DMX. so now no need to adjust and you get the copy of the parameters, which happens to be CP4. 
- you specify while copying that only RGB should be taken into account: 1112 Red Green Blue CopyTo 112 
- the most thorough way is this: make sure White is included with it's proper amount in all color palettes. make sure that all cues don't have absolute numbers of White anymore but rather a reference to the respective color palette. now if you copy from 1112 to 112 the console will understand that you want to copy the whole group of color parameters to another group of color parameters, even if both groups don't contain the same parameters. (now that you have white included in your color palettes you should copy the color data within the color palettes from 1112 to 112 again, to make sure that the white gets taken into account...) 
 
does this help?

John728 · Answer

My guess is that you have color palettes set to Always Absolute. In the color palettes tab, you can use {Absolute} [Enter] to toggle this setting on and off.