18 in 2018- Day Ten: Default Value Preset »
It's Day 10. Today I want to talk about building a default preset that we'll use at the top of all of our cuelists. This one is a little tricky to understand in concept- but if you've ever toured a production where you change fixture types in your rig between venues, and you've found very strange defaults tracking through your sequences.... You're going to find this one helpful.
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18 in 2018- Day Nine: Sh T »
It's not a typo. Day 9 is not about "sh*t." But it is about remote shutdown shortcuts for the MA2 devices on your network.
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18 in 2018- Day Eight: Adding Custom Gobos »
Our eighth day of 18 in 2018 is going to cover swapping gobo images in our fixture library with custom images of our own. If you've ever loaded a custom gobo into your fixture and wanted the icons on the MA to reflect your gobo- you're in the right place.
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18 in 2018- Day Seven: Release Parameters and Mode »
It's Day 7 of 18 in 2018. Lets talk about putting some release parameters into cues, and then look at the Release Mode on a cue.
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18 in 2018- Day Six: Better Bumps »
Day 6 of 18 in 2018 is all about getting better bumps, and finding an alternative to the old favorite: the "Flash" button.
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18 in 2018- Day Five: Break Cues »
Welcome back. It's day 5 of 18 in 2018. Today we're talking about "Break Cues." A break cue is a short cut to creating a block cue. If you tell a cue to be in "Break" mode, it means no values from a previous cue can track into it. It works a lot like if you were to block all of the values in your cue, but it's faster, easier and saves show file size.
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18 in 2018- Day Four: Trigger a Chase from Within a Cue »
Day Four of 18 in 2018 takes us right back to the Sequence Executor window, where we’ll use the Command options to trigger other cues.
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18 in 2018- Day Three: Organized Sequence Views »
Its 2018! Lets make our showfiles more efficient. Here's what you'll need: - One thumb drive - One grandMA2 console on grandMA2 onPC running software version 3.3.4.3 - grandMA3D v3.3.4.3 (Optional) - The Consoletrainer 2018 showfile (Includes our updates up through Day Two) so you can play along. You can grab the software for free at http://www.malighting.com/en/support-downloads/software.html Software [...]
18 in 2018- Day Two: Cleaner, Color Coded Layouts »
Today, we're going to clean up our layouts, and color code our fixtures to help us move more quickly while programming.
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18 Tips to a Cleaner Showfile in 2018 »
Happy 2018. I thought I’d try something a little different here and work on a series of videos that will help us make our showfiles a little bit simpler, a little cleaner, a little more efficient. Since its 2018, I’ve put together 18 video tutorials to us do just that.
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