Hello all,
A question that has come out of an unusual situation. I work in TV studios, we have 3 Eos lighting desks in different galleries around the site. We have 10 studio spaces, any gallery can send data to any studio space lighting rig. We have the problem of moving around the studio site day to day, but as the galleries can all talk to each space, we are rarely on the same lighting desk everyday, but maybe working in the same set over a few days. Some rigs are simple, and some more complex with lots of LED fixtures etc etc... After a day ends we have to save the showfiles onto a USB and transfer it onto the next desk we are on the following day. This is getting very messy, the 3 desks never have the same building blocks apart from the patch and console settings.
What I am wondering, is it possible to network the 3 consoles together in a way that one show file can be accessed across all 3 desks? Something like the show file sits on a central sever and all 3 desks can access it? How would something like that work with one lighting desk saving for example, and the other two are currently working from the same file? I understand how partitions work well in a traditional theatre programming setup, but I can’t seem to think of a way to make this work. All 3 desks have the same patch, so I don't think anything clever with users or partitions would work, as all 3 use the same patch but always sending data to different studios. Essentially this is to save having to transfer showfiles across the site on USB, but after a day of filming the show file is updated with the palette, preset and cue information recorded during the day and then accessible by both the other desks over the network the next morning?
There maybe a very simple solution here, but some help finding it or for someone to say ‘stick with the USB's!’ would be great.
Thanks,
Matt
