Conventionals in a Cuelist

It's Nutcracker Season... Whoo Hoo!!!

So the show this week was designed and run by the first outside LD not intimidated by our new HogIII (we bought it this past July). He's experienceing a problem I haven't seen. He starts up his show at the login screen and does a lamp check. When he goes to run through his cue list for the show, the conventionals don't come up. Our Studio Spots work just fine.

Here's what we have:

1 HogIII
1 DP2000
1 HP laptop running 3PC (not connected when we see this issue)
1 Linksys hub connecting the network
1 DMX universe with 100+ conventionals and fog machines
1 DMX universe with 2 Studio Spot CMY Zooms

So far the problem goes away when you restart the console. Today when it happened I connected the laptop to the show and got the same result when I ran through the cues.

Because the phenomena happens with both the console and the laptop, could it be the DP2000? Has the console attracted a new theater ghost? Is my console mad at me because I asked the board op for Barenaked Ladies at Radio City about his GrandMA?

Anyone have any ideas?

Much Thanks,
Kerry Brandon
Technical Director, Jim Rouse Theater for the Performing Arts at WLHS
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    Hi Tom,

    I've now seen the 'menu' issue many times. What is happening is that when I select a Studio Spot, control of the various parameters is not transferred to the encoder wheels. I am able to use the command line to ask for intensity but have not tried controlling non-intensity parameters with the command line.

    The 'menus' I was attempting to describe are the lists of available functions for each feature (i.e. beam, color, position, etc.) that come up above the command line. They're not really 'menus'; I just couldn't think of a better way to describe them. You should just ignore that part.

    I am keeping a camera handy. The next time it happens, I'll post a picture.

    Sorry for the confusion.

    Kerry
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    Hi Tom,

    I've now seen the 'menu' issue many times. What is happening is that when I select a Studio Spot, control of the various parameters is not transferred to the encoder wheels. I am able to use the command line to ask for intensity but have not tried controlling non-intensity parameters with the command line.

    The 'menus' I was attempting to describe are the lists of available functions for each feature (i.e. beam, color, position, etc.) that come up above the command line. They're not really 'menus'; I just couldn't think of a better way to describe them. You should just ignore that part.

    I am keeping a camera handy. The next time it happens, I'll post a picture.

    Sorry for the confusion.

    Kerry
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