Hi All.
I finished the Opera with the I-Cue, hazer, et al, and thanks to those that answered my questions about DMX toys. It all went pretty well, for the most part.
This was our first chance to use the RVI as a designer's remote in the house. The designer did some progamming from it (when the SM was on Clear com and the designer couldn't talk to the operator).
These questions arose:
Park Park doesn't work on. [k] [k] gets an error command, not the Blind Park screen.
The shortcut PDF for qwerty keyboard commands: it lists Beam Palette (Alt B), Colour Palette (Alt C), etc, but not Intenisty Palette (actually Alt I as in EYE).
Tombstone screen: hit format and you get the column of channels, useful with DMX devices. How do you expand the Beam/Colour/Focus boxes to show Tilt and Pan boxes? I can't remember the console keys to do this, but the near equivilent on the RVI would include holding 4 buttons down at once, if I recall correctly.
The designer had trouble with the onscreen encoder wheels. He'd spin them around, but they wouldn't move more than -0.4 to +0.4. I tried today on the show file, and they worked fine. Any thoughts what Operator Error occured to cause this?
The RVI is useful, but slow to program on for the first few shows, since you're always looking at the cheat sheet.
Thanks
Andrew Riter
Head Lighting Technician
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
University of British Columbia
Hi Andrew
To expand the FCB columns in the spreadsheet view, you need to enter the keycommand for [data] or [params] and then click on the parameters you want to expand on the CIA. this is probably the easiest way to do this on the offline editor or similar
Cheers
With regards to the virtual encoders, he may have been clicking-and-dragging up-and-down, rather than round-and-round.
The 'virtual encoders' in some other applications require you to click and then drag straight up or straight down to spin them, as they were primarily designed for mouse use.
Eos was designed for touchscreen use, where dragging in circles is much more intuitive!
Keep on trying till you run out of cake.