This may be a bit esoteric but was an interesting exercise and was also a stump the ETC tech support question.
The Dept of Theater has cued a show using 8 High End moving lights on an Emhpasis 500-2d/Express 250 system.
The Emphasis has a 500 channel capacity. The movers require 174 control channels (6 Studio Spot CMY/Zooms @ 24 addresses ea. & 2 Studio Color 250's @ 15 addresses ea.). The conventional system goes to channel 81 with many gaps, the ML's are above that and go beyond channel 250 in order to have the layout as each ML on a horizontal row on the Channel display screen, thus goes to channel 315.
The LD desires to port the Emphasis show file to the Express 250 in stand-alone mode (no Emphasis server) after dress.
No comments needed as to the why.
I have available to me the following software: Emphasis OLE and WYSIWYG v17, Expression Off-Line Editor, Ion Off-Line Editor. The last is important.
How to get the channel count down to the capacity of the Express 250 and not have to re-write the cue levels.
Note that this was acheived - in theory, as we have not as yet loaded the file to the Express in non-Emphasis mode, but it all runs correctly in Express Off-Line
Discuss methods and potential pitfalls.
Note that I attempted to post this in the QotD forum but was denied permission. If anyone wants to move it, a thanks.
The Dept of Theater has cued a show using 8 High End moving lights on an Emhpasis 500-2d/Express 250 system.
The Emphasis has a 500 channel capacity. The movers require 174 control channels (6 Studio Spot CMY/Zooms @ 24 addresses ea. & 2 Studio Color 250's @ 15 addresses ea.). The conventional system goes to channel 81 with many gaps, the ML's are above that and go beyond channel 250 in order to have the layout as each ML on a horizontal row on the Channel display screen, thus goes to channel 315.
The LD desires to port the Emphasis show file to the Express 250 in stand-alone mode (no Emphasis server) after dress.
No comments needed as to the why.
I have available to me the following software: Emphasis OLE and WYSIWYG v17, Expression Off-Line Editor, Ion Off-Line Editor. The last is important.
How to get the channel count down to the capacity of the Express 250 and not have to re-write the cue levels.
Note that this was acheived - in theory, as we have not as yet loaded the file to the Express in non-Emphasis mode, but it all runs correctly in Express Off-Line
Discuss methods and potential pitfalls.
Note that I attempted to post this in the QotD forum but was denied permission. If anyone wants to move it, a thanks.
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