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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 102Up 5$$BlockedChan 388=100 389=100 390=100 391=100 392=100 393=100 394=100 395=100 396=100$$Attr 229.02 H80 229.44 H80 230.02 H80 230.44 H80 231.02 H80 231.44 H80$$Attr 232.02 H80 232.44 H80 233.02 H80 233.44 ...

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.  I have been asked to do this ...

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 most cases, but not all, ...

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 Prestige 3000, which didn't ...

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 keep one ballet at a time in the ...

@ 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. Doing it myself is cheapest, but takes a ...

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/cues and times are imported from ASCII ...

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 the file dates suggest may have been ...

I was doing an ''odd'' translation this week - *backwards*, from Obsession 5.1 to Obsession 4.4.2 . I thought it would be easier than usual, but I found what looks like a tracking bug in Obsession Off-Line 5.2's ASCII output. I haven't tested this with EOS Offline, so I suppose it's possible that EOS's ASCII-in interprets the extra keyword ...

Unfortunately, there is no way to input ASCII to Obsession II Offline.  I don't work for ETC, but I believe ASCII output was added to version 5.2 Offline as an ''upgrade path'' to Eos.  That's why they went to so much effort to create and implement the many ASCII extension-keywords that weren't part of the elderly ASCII standard. The ...