Okay, here we go. When I program on the Eos, I have over 100 macros that I start every show with that streamline my programming. I'm halfway through a lengthy tech right now, and I've already added a few macros to my collection for this show. They're not very cool, but they make programming so much faster and cleaner. I'll list some of the ones I use most often or find most useful.
Macros linked to Snapshots for Presets, Beam/Color/Focus/Intensity Palettes, Groups, Effects, etc.
Macros for all the different Flexi modes
Partition TOGGLE, and Macros for each Partition I'm using
User 1-5 - just switches what user I am at the moment
Rosco/Lee/Gam/Apollo - just puts Color #/ onto the command line, and it also swaps the color format from HSB into native CMY/RGB
Shutters Start Over - sneaks out the shutters on the fixture I'm working with, useful when I get all screwed up with my shutters
Shutters 1&3/2&4/ALL - throws the respective shutters onto the command line so I can quickly adjust opposite shutters with the keypad without needing to go to the encoders
Record Preset FB - puts Focus Beam Record Preset on the command line, so I don't have intensity and color in my show presets
Record New Color - puts Record Color Palette By Type on the command line, saving me some keystrokes
Record New Beam - puts Record Only Beam Palette By Type on the command line - same as above
Make Mark P20 - probably my most used Macro - creates a Part 20, Marks it, and labels it Mark - I could just mark in the base cue, but marking in a discrete part lets me quickly see where my marks are when I'm in Blind, and it cleans up my timing on the PSD so it's easy to tell when I've made a mistake
Make Hard Mark - a fairly complex macro which copies channel values into the previous cue (or one I can optionally designate), puts them in P19 (so I can tell the difference) and labels it Hard Mark, then unblocks the values in the current cue so they'll track through. Used mostly when I need a fixture to move as its fading up
Q Link Haze ON/OFF - When I'm storing hazer data into a cue list, I prefer to put it on an Effect sub (running 30s-on, 30s-off), and trigger that sub on or off via the cue list. This makes it really easy for the operator to see what the haze is doing, and he/she can easily bring it up or down via the fader as needed for that performance. This macro just links the ON or OFF macro to the cue I'm in.
Stage Out in 4:00 - waits 4 minutes, then sneaks out the stage. I link it from the "house up" cue in most shows I program
Sequential Startup - steps through each fixture, lamping it on and resetting it at 5 second intervals - useful when I have a lot of fixtures and not a lot of overhead to risk powering them all at once
Select Active Query Preset - I just made this one yesterday during a 10-out-of-12, it just lets me query my live fixtures and saves a few keystrokes
There's a bunch more, but these are the ones I use most often.
EDIT: I'm actually trying to write a Preset Cleanup macro for my current show, but I haven't had much luck. Basically, I want to find out what channels stored in a preset don't actually get used with that preset in the show, then delete those references from the preset so that I don't have extra channels in a preset that aren't used in the show. The show I'm doing now is a tour, so they'll need to update every fixture in every preset for each venue, so I want to keep the presets as clean as possible so they're not updating unnecessary channels. That's a mouthful. Anyone have any ideas how I might accomplish this?
How do you accomplish this? All I can think of is using {Wait For Input}, but how would you opt out of that and use a predetermined value instead?
Why I hire people like you.
It's actually two different macros. I almost always just send it to the cue immediately prior, which is totally automated with a macro, but I have the same macro written with a {Wait For Input} on another page that I have used once or twice. I tend to spend my down time at the console writing all sorts of crazy, unusual macros mostly to expand my knowledge and see what all can be written, so I probably have a macro written for almost everything Then I just shuffle the good ones onto my "main" macro pages.
I wish more people would.
Okay, here we go. When I program on the Eos, I have over 100 macros that I start every show with that streamline my programming. I'm halfway through a lengthy tech right now, and I've already added a few macros to my collection for this show. They're not very cool, but they make programming so much faster and cleaner. I'll list some of the ones I use most often or find most useful.
Macros linked to Snapshots for Presets, Beam/Color/Focus/Intensity Palettes, Groups, Effects, etc.
Macros for all the different Flexi modes
Partition TOGGLE, and Macros for each Partition I'm using
User 1-5 - just switches what user I am at the moment
Rosco/Lee/Gam/Apollo - just puts Color #/ onto the command line, and it also swaps the color format from HSB into native CMY/RGB
Shutters Start Over - sneaks out the shutters on the fixture I'm working with, useful when I get all screwed up with my shutters
Shutters 1&3/2&4/ALL - throws the respective shutters onto the command line so I can quickly adjust opposite shutters with the keypad without needing to go to the encoders
Record Preset FB - puts Focus Beam Record Preset on the command line, so I don't have intensity and color in my show presets
Record New Color - puts Record Color Palette By Type on the command line, saving me some keystrokes
Record New Beam - puts Record Only Beam Palette By Type on the command line - same as above
Make Mark P20 - probably my most used Macro - creates a Part 20, Marks it, and labels it Mark - I could just mark in the base cue, but marking in a discrete part lets me quickly see where my marks are when I'm in Blind, and it cleans up my timing on the PSD so it's easy to tell when I've made a mistake
Make Hard Mark - a fairly complex macro which copies channel values into the previous cue (or one I can optionally designate), puts them in P19 (so I can tell the difference) and labels it Hard Mark, then unblocks the values in the current cue so they'll track through. Used mostly when I need a fixture to move as its fading up
Q Link Haze ON/OFF - When I'm storing hazer data into a cue list, I prefer to put it on an Effect sub (running 30s-on, 30s-off), and trigger that sub on or off via the cue list. This makes it really easy for the operator to see what the haze is doing, and he/she can easily bring it up or down via the fader as needed for that performance. This macro just links the ON or OFF macro to the cue I'm in.
Stage Out in 4:00 - waits 4 minutes, then sneaks out the stage. I link it from the "house up" cue in most shows I program
Sequential Startup - steps through each fixture, lamping it on and resetting it at 5 second intervals - useful when I have a lot of fixtures and not a lot of overhead to risk powering them all at once
Select Active Query Preset - I just made this one yesterday during a 10-out-of-12, it just lets me query my live fixtures and saves a few keystrokes
There's a bunch more, but these are the ones I use most often.
Can one print the list of macros to a file on the EOS?
I don't believe so, but then again I'm not programming one right now... rochem?
M755 said:Group 0 . 9
_Next Lamp_Control Lamp_On
Macro_Loop_Begin 3 6
Lamp_Control Fixture_Global_Reset
Macro_Wait 5
_Next Lamp_Control Lamp_On
Macro_Loop_End
M777 said:
M787 said:
M798 said:Go To Cue Out Time 1 0 Macro_Wait 2 4 0
_CLEAR_CMD
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