lots of questions

1) move when dark... fixture feature, or programmable into a cue? If so, how? I had one incident where i would have liked to move a par of VL2500s when dark

With the most recent software version Mark cues have been added. This will preset all fixtures with a zero intensity to their next position... all you need to do is double click in the mark column of the cue you wish to preset.

If you only want certain fixtures preset then you could make your own preset cue by using Touch. Goto the cue you wish to preset and selecet the fixtures you wish to preset. Press touch and type @0 Enter. Record a new cue right before the one you are preseting. Remeber hogs go to 4 decimal places!

2) tap to time fades/cues/fx... is it possible?

You can do this with a cuelist chase by holding down choose and tap play.

3) fx spread... is that in the latest software? The offset feature is nice, but I was having to set the offset for every fixture individually... a spread command would do it automatically, like on MagicQ and Ma. (the console I was using ran an older version, not the latest upgrade, and it wasn't my responsibility to upgrade...heh)

In the fx engine if you fan the offset that should spread across all the selected fixtures. You just have to hold down fan while setting the offset.

4) macros, or preferences... I ended up going through and changing all the fader and bump button setups to almost the same setting, go off zero, release on zero, etc... Can a macro be written to do that for me, or is there a setting in preferences that would set it up like that for me?

No keystroke macros yet. If you want most of your cuelists to have certain atributes you can set it in the Playback Defaults of the User Preferences. However, I am not sure if there is a way to change the defaults of the Master.... Maybe somebody smarter than me knows???


Hopefully this explains some of you questions...

Mark

1) move when dark... fixture feature, or programmable into a cue? If so, how? I had one incident where i would have liked to move a par of VL2500s when dark

With the most recent software version Mark cues have been added. This will preset all fixtures with a zero intensity to their next position... all you need to do is double click in the mark column of the cue you wish to preset.

If you only want certain fixtures preset then you could make your own preset cue by using Touch. Goto the cue you wish to preset and selecet the fixtures you wish to preset. Press touch and type @0 Enter. Record a new cue right before the one you are preseting. Remeber hogs go to 4 decimal places!

2) tap to time fades/cues/fx... is it possible?

You can do this with a cuelist chase by holding down choose and tap play.

3) fx spread... is that in the latest software? The offset feature is nice, but I was having to set the offset for every fixture individually... a spread command would do it automatically, like on MagicQ and Ma. (the console I was using ran an older version, not the latest upgrade, and it wasn't my responsibility to upgrade...heh)

In the fx engine if you fan the offset that should spread across all the selected fixtures. You just have to hold down fan while setting the offset.

4) macros, or preferences... I ended up going through and changing all the fader and bump button setups to almost the same setting, go off zero, release on zero, etc... Can a macro be written to do that for me, or is there a setting in preferences that would set it up like that for me?

No keystroke macros yet. If you want most of your cuelists to have certain atributes you can set it in the Playback Defaults of the User Preferences. However, I am not sure if there is a way to change the defaults of the Master.... Maybe somebody smarter than me knows???


Hopefully this explains some of you questions...

Mark