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Hi...I don't recall a conversation about this, and couldn't find one in search, so: I'm currently trying to convert a show from EOS to Strand, via USITT ASCII and Showport. I've done this successfully in the past, but this time I had a lot of errors thrown up by Showport. When I looked...
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The only threads I've been able to find here are about converting between obsession and expression consoles. Are files made in any Expression Series console fully compatable with other Expression Series consoles? For example, I'd like to pre-program a show into Expression Off-Line with the Expression...
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Strand->EOS is more tricky. You didn't say Strand 300-500, but that's probably what you meant. Here's a sample Strand ASCII cue: Cue 102 Up 5 $$Blocked Chan 388=100 389=100 390=100 391=100 392=100 393=100 394=100 395=100 396=100 $$Attr 229.02 H80 229.44 H80 230.02 H80 230.44 H80 231.02 H80 231.44...
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Dave, I apologize for making a commercial post, but I feel very confident that my information is correct. The only way to down-convert from 5.1 to 4.x.x is to hire someone like me to use his own after-market software to convert the 5.1 show to ASCII and then send you a 4.4.2 version of the ASCII file...
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Scott, I dashed off a program to do the translation you need. It finds all $Patch records and translates them (as much as it can) to standard ASCII PATCH records. This will result in multi-dimmer units (e.g.. moving lights) having their lowest DMX address patched to their single EOS channel number. In...
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Well, in1992, a USITT committee published this formula: DMX_level = Round(Percentage * (255/100)) But you'll run into consoles now and then that don't precisely follow it. Perhaps someone from ETC will tell us if this is their "official" internal standard. For example, almost as long ago, I ran a Colortran...
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Michael, I realize that I don't have full information on your console operation needs. But as a long-time operator, I'd like to risk your ire by making a few alternative suggestions: No question, Obsession I is painfully slow in reading in a show. But Obsession II is so much faster, why don't you just...
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@ Tbuchman ~ thanks for your insight into this dilemma. As much as I'd like to employ your services, over time, it's cost-prohibitive. For example, I might need the same piece of rep with different cue numbers multiple times over a couple of years, combined with a wide variety other pieces from the rep...
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Hi Carl, In what format is the Zero88 showfile? Is it in ASCII? Can you open the showfile in Notepad or Wordpad and read what's in the show. If the file is in ASCII then you should be able to just open it in Congo. You might need to change the file type to .asc. Normally at least patch, sequences, presets...
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Dan, thanks very much for your reply, and also for not pointing out my stupid failure to include in my post the version number of the software I was complaining about! You are correct that I was running 5.2.0.9.0.12, which I think dates from last spring. I was not aware of the 5.2.1.9.0.2 release, which...