Bug Report - Various
RoadHog 4.21 with DP8000
I have been using v4 on a weekly live TV show for the last 4 months with a multitude of different fixture types, LED and Hippo with music, games, new items every week, so a lot of programming. On top of the previous issues I have already reported, these are some of my findings. This is a show that was originally exported from v3 and imported into v4.
Programmer screen frequently crashes. This seems to be just the window as the programmer seems to still be working. The other windows are ok, but I can’t close or re-open the Programmer window. The only way out is to log off and log on again.
The white point for added fixtures of the same type seems to vary. I added additional fixtures of a type that was already in the show and the white point in the output window colour mix column was a lot warmer.
Global effects doesn’t seem to work, certainly for colour effects. If I save the effects from a single fixture as a global effects palette, it should be available to other fixtures, but it seems not to be.
Highlight doesn’t work. It seems to blackout rather than highlight all of the fixtures I have. I’ve had to make a highlight palette for every fixture in the show.
There is something odd going on with the lamp strike control command. Never got to the bottom of it, but it never seems to reliably strike all of the fixture types without several attempts.
Knocking out a single parameter from the programmer has sometimes knocked out the whole of that Kind. Not consistent though.
Virtual Playback Wings; the scale settings are not remembered.
I have had other strange anomalies happen, but usually it’s when things are busy and there’s no time to systematically clarify what has actually happened. You just have to find a work around and get on with the show.