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    No more GrandMasters on ETC consoles

    Maybe I'm just slow on the uptake, but couldn't you just pull down the fader that the cued stack is running off of? I do this all the time on MA, not sure if ETC has some kind of reason not to.Alternate approach - an inhibitor handle with everything in it is a whole lot like a grand master.
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    Can you filter the fixture library on an Ion?

    I'm sure i'm missing something fairly obvious, but when you hand a visiting LD your patch sheet, does it not include fixture type/model?
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    MA Ethernet over Fiber Question

    It's worth mentioning that MA considers 75m the maximum length for ethernet cable. They're really bad about actually writing up a tech note about it, but you can find it buried in their forums several places.
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    Tour Company Recommendations?

    Also check out Upstaging and Bandit...and there's always Christie.
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    Control/Dimming Pulling DMX from 4 Pin lines

    I don't believe it's DMX coming out of those 4-pin cables - DMX feeds the power supply unit, but it then feeds its own proprietary protocol to scrollers. As I understand it at least..
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    ETCnet resources?

    As an MA guy, I'm curious how ETC handles 16-bit parameters - if you patch 256 16-bit dimmers, is that eating 256 parameters (MA style) or is it eating 512 outputs (The Other Leading Brand style)?
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    GrandMA2: Copying Fixture Data from Previous Cues

    If you're trying to grab just the information in cue 52 (no tracked values, just moves), syntax would be "FIXTURE 701 THRU 710 AT CUE 52". If you want the state of those fixtures in cue 52 (including tracked values) "FIXTURE 701 THRU 710 AT CUE THRU 52". Filter as needed.PS: that position...
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    Metric Socapex

    Interesting, I hadn't realized there wasn't any direct lineage. There's a whole lot of personnel overlap, from account reps to techs, though, so I just assumed.
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    Metric Socapex

    I've always heard it was sized to their truss as well. You may be thinking of their ancestor Westsun, which was a horrible mess of imperial/metric/stagepin/edison/twistlock cabling with what seemed like different standards per shop/region.
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    ETC ion cue list label

    Those look a lot like artisan/virtuoso/Vx76 'song dividers'.The more the eos starts to look and drive like a 676, the more i'll like it..
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    Good PC build for MA onPC and MA 3d?

    http://www.actlighting.com/support/grandma2/ACTRecommendedHardwareSpecs.html
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    DMX to video?

    Pretty sure it was the LA shop that came up with FUEL, if that helps at all.
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    Any fun custom consoles exist out there?

    Those Squeek rigs are killer! Do you mind if i ask who built your cases?
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    DMX to video?

    About eight years ago or so, a guy at PRG wrote exactly what you're looking for. It's called the "FUEL" system, and it lets you address your versatube pixels as RGB DMX cells - pretty sure there was some flexibility in patching, as well.No idea whatever happened to it. I haven't seen...
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    Qlab on Mac Mini - Which video output to use

    Use whichever connector you have EDID management gear for.You're managing your EDIDs, right?
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