The intent behind this post is to bring to light little known features of Eos and Ion. The kind of stuff that you wouldn't necessary discover on your own.... that you'd have to read the manual to find (yea, yea) or that someone would have to tell you about.
Maybe you know some you'd like pass along!!
For example, did you know.....
That you can lock out the face panel on the desk by holding down [Clear] & [Escape] .... and unlock it the same way?
Anne
Anne Valentino
Eos Product Line Manager
This one is obvious but, Double hitting any record target, (Cue, Focus Palette, Color Palette, Beam Palette, etc.) will take you to the list that corresponds with those targets.
And David.... once you are in that list view.... an edit key makes it possible to go directly to blind of the selected record target.
Also.....
Has everyone discovered the live scroller calibration tool in 1.3? Select a channel with a color scroller. Toggle the scroller encoder. Notice a key that says "Calibrate." Starting at the far end of the scroll (you want to work back toward the first frame), center the last color and press calibrate. Repeat with each frame. Why bother? Because it'll make the encoder in coarse mode spot on accurate.
a
Chris MizerakSoftware EngineerElectronic Theatre Controls
Chris,
That is a fun fact. Any Five seconds that I'm not standing in front of the console waiting for it to boot up while my crew is on deck standing around is a real bonus. It really begs the question though- Why is the countdown there in the first place if the time that it is counting isn't necessary? Especially if you (ETC) know that it is annoying?
B
That mechanism is in place to give the user a small window of time to prevent Eos from automatically launching. Although, I've never actually seen it, we were worried that if your current show file became corrupted (bad sectors on a hard drive, etc...), it could cause Eos to hang/freeze on launch. If this ever happened, the user could reboot, prevent auto-launch, and perform a "Deep Clear" from within the shell.
On Ion when you hold down an encoder, you will get the same functionality that we have on Eos. You will get a Min,Max,Next,Last & Mode button. And as long as you are holding the encoder you can continue to push the softkey that corresponds to the function that you want!
DS
Did you also know that [at] [Enter] applied to selected channels/parameters removes the current move instruction and puts the value from the previous cue on stage (when you are working in live)? You then just have to update the cue. This eliminates [channel list] [recall from] <Cue> [Last] [Enter] or even worse, [Blind] [Last] --- look at the value you want, return to live, setting that value and storing/updating the cue.
In blind, it simply removes the move instruction.
From my experience, the [at] [enter] will only work to recall data from the previous cue. if you want to recall colour data (or any other data) from another cue, you'd need to enter
[1] [colour] [recall from] (cue) [5] [enter]
hope that helps
Cheers
Ben, Brent is correct about that. Also, did you know that if you apply a curve to a cue, it impacts just the intensity transitions of the cue, but if you place it on a cue part, it impacts whatever is stored in the associated part. So this is an easy tool to ramp parameters (such as pan and tilt) when needed.
And, that you can use [Clear] & [Enter] to make manual values "unmanual." They will stay on stage as currently set, but are no longer available for Record Only or Update operations. If you do this with channels selected, it will impact only those channels. If you do it with no channels selected, it impacts all manual values.