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 in 2018 – Day One: Moving into Someone Else’s grandMA Showfile »
There will come times when you need to move into someone else's showfile, and I recommend doing 2 things before your even tilt a light. We're going to set up an updated User Profile, and then Import our favorite Effects and Macros.
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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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Pan and Tilt Inverts: DMX vs Encoder »
Most consoles allow for inverting pan and tilt because, well, you gotta have it! The MA offers you two different ways to invert pan and tilt, so lets look at both.
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Group Masters- Tips and Shortcuts »
Group masters are one of the special assignments you can set on an executor. They allow you to inhibit output over any selection of lights- sort of like mini-grandmasters.
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Organizing Effects »
It's all about organization. Last week, we talked about why I make all of the effects in my cues Selective - and it has a lot to do with updating. This week, we go a step further and talk about why good organization plays a role in this.
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