Ryan Kanarek i tried to replicate the same behavior on an other showfile but i can't reproduce it somehow. but in the back of my head i remember that somehow relative values got tracked into the off cue and could not be erased, then i deleted the whole sequence, made a new one and from there it somehow was starting to happen. the show file is too big to upload it here somehow. it is 8 mb, zip compressed it is still 6 to 7 mb ...
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Ryan Kanarek hey ryan, yes it does and i double checked my default cue parts in the preset pools, in which the presets i use in the sequence are saved to and it is part 0.
i am just a programmer in a theater who tries to learn how to use MA3 before we change our MA2 console with a MA 3 console in the coming future.
i do not know where we got our MA2 console from to be honest. but, i could upload the show file here?!
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hey folks,
i have played around with v 1.7.2.0 and noticed a pretty strange thing. if i store new cues into a sequence, it always automatically names it cue x part 4294967295.
as long as i do not change that number to 0 and i for example store /remove /co attributes, now everything works fine and cue only is finally respected...
BUT if i change the cue part number to 0 and store /remove /co attributes it does something weird. i added 4 screenshots, where you can see it, i think thats the easiest way to describe it.
btw the same strange behavior occurs when i just store /merge values into a cue which does not have 4294967295 as a cuepart...
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hoss I always see what I am doing live in real time in my case. so I use 1 VPU basic for my front projections where the VPU plus a screen is located adjacent to my console. for my projections on the backdrop I use a VPU light, which sends thumbnails to my console via CITP, but I don't really need that, since I am able to see everything I do live directly on the backdrop.
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if 1.7 does: 1. track relative values correctly 2. remove the store /remove cue only bug 3. give the possibility to use relative/absolute layers and individual times as a filter option for assigning it to preset pools 4. give us the beloved tracking shield, I do not really see a big difference in the workflow compared to MA2. the only thing you have to get used to is, that if you want to have a clean showfile, you have to save lots of selective phaser presets, but that's what I already did using selective effects in MA2. it takes a bit longer while programming but it is so convinient to change speed/phase/size/width etc. afterwards, than just having hard values everywhere in the show. looking forward to 1.7 definetely!
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hi folks, I would like to know which media server is easy to use, easy to embed into grandMA3 and relatively simple just like grandMA2's VPU is?
any suggestions?
thank you in advance!
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Andreas hey, thank your for the tip, 1++2++3...is much more convinient to type in than 1 + 2 + 3. I modiefied my macro in a way that it says: at remove encoderpage 2, at remove pencoderpage 3 and so on, due to the fact that I always use all presets with position/gobo/beam/focus/shapers in it and I want to remove all those attributes and for color its just color. So 2 macros. But I also tried to create universal presets with just remove values in it and when i tried to store it in the preset pool, the presets are empty. Somehow remove isn't a real value. Would be cool if it was though.
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I'll have to find out tomorrow. Interesting approach. But if building that macro takes away too much of my nerves I am going to store a universal preset with only remove values in the desired attributes and I use that to get my remove values on the correct attributes. so for example a universal color preset with remove values. And the macro says current selection at preset 4."remove_color" and another line says store cue $cuenumber /m /co...and for removing pos/gobo/beam/focus/shapers a universal all preset with remove values...
But I'll play around with it tomorrow at work.
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you are right, I have to build around it selecting a filter which defines only the attributes to which the remove value should be assigned to and then say: at remove encoderpage 1, at remove encoderpage 2, at remove encoderpage 3 and so on...then every encoderpage gets a removed value assigned to it, but it respects the selected filter...
or I say at remove encoderpage 1, at remove encoderpage 2, at remove encoderpage 3 and so on so all encoderpages get a remove value assigned to it and in another step the macro says off encoderpage x, off encoderpage y, off encoderpage z etc. and x, y, z are variables for encoderpages which should not get activated and removed...I'll have a try tomorrow.
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Andreas thank u, now it works. so I have to type in: 2 + 3 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8. I should have known that because if you use the calculator to invert PAN in MA2/MA3 you have to make sure that you type in * -1 instead of * - 1 as the calculator suggests. you always have to remove that space by yourself after typing it in...or you use the +/- button, which I always overlook to be honest
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1. removing relative values results in completely removing it instead of tracking it from the cue before. 2. stomping relative value only works if the related absolute value is not a tracked value.
3. store remove cue only does not respect cue only. 4. blocking a sequence to get hard values for using handy actions like fixture x at cue y results in creating unwanted part cues.
if you have to remove and replace lots of values in 1 sequence as in theater programming this behaviour really makes MA3 inconvinient as hell at the moment. hopefully that changes with the next update and we will finally get the tracking shield store option and filters which respect layers for storing presets in the preset pool, without having to remove the unwanted absolute or relative layer manually from every preset.
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Bentoylight I changed my macro and it still does not work. it does not take the + between the numbers when the cmd: at remove encoderpage 2+3+5+6+7+8 is executed, altough the variable $Encoderpages equals 2+3+5+6+7+8...
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I have to try that again, maybe I used ' instead of ", that would explain why it did not work. I just removed the quotation marcs from the macro from which I took a screenshot, because I only removed colors on the sequence I manipulated. Thank u for the quick response. It's a great in here. Nice people.
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I tried to use quotation marks but that didn't work.
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hey folks, I built a simple macro to remove attributes from cues, because the store remove cue only action is bugged. but I've got a problem. when the variables "Encoderpages" and "Cues" in my macro consist of a single value for example Encoderpages=2 and Cues=3 it works fine. but if it's a text value like Encoderpage=2+3+5+6+7+8 and Cues=2+4 it doesn't work.
In MA2 I used to declare the variables SetVar $=("Encoderpages?") and SetVar $Cues=("Cues?") and the quotationmarks did the job to realize it's a string...
How can this be done in MA3?
Here is a screenshot of my macro and what it looks like when executed in the cmd line. thanks in advance!
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thank u for the quick response!
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hey guys, I've got the following situation. i have 6 rows of fixtures. every row consists of fixture x01 to x10. first row of fixtures=101 to 110, last row of fixtures=601 to 610.
I positioned everything as desired in my grid. when I open MAtricks, choose x-axis and step thru the blocks it looks fine. when I choose z-axis and step thru the blocks it also works fine.
but here comes the problem:
when I select my group and create a dimmer phaser with phase x=0 to phase x=180 it looks as expected, it's a sine wave from left to right. BUT when I create a dimmer phaser with phase z=0 to phase z=180 all my fixtures go from closed to full at the same time. here are 2 screenshots of my group.
the grid looks correct, doesn't it?
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i just found i out myself. i typed "lock sreen", so everything got locked. now i typed "unlock screen" and everything is unlocked again!
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hey guys, i try to change my views, delete my screens etc. but it always says: "Object Locked: Delete ScreenContnet X.Y".
i tried to type "unlock thru" into the cmd line but nothing happens.
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Ryan Kanarek that video solved my problem. thank you for sharing. i did not know of the existence of these grandma3-tech-talk-webinars.
they come pretty handy.