Lesson 7 Tut3

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• preamble
• lesson 1: Installation and configuration
• lesson 2: The GUI panel concept
• lesson 3: Creating and patching fixtures
• lesson 4: The live view panel
• lesson 5: Setting properties with property panels
• lesson 6: Output plugins
• lesson 7: Summery and details - Setting
• lesson 8: Scenes (cues) and scene lists
• lesson 9: Fanning, chasers and other effects
• lesson 10: The programmer view
• lesson 11: Trigger concepts
• lesson 12: Editing scenes and scenelists
• lesson 13: Presets
• lesson 14: Summary and details - Programming
• lesson 15: Working with parallel scene lists
• lesson 16: Softpult
• lesson 17: Artnet
• lesson 18: Multi-media: Beamer tool, Matrix etc.
• lesson 19: Other clients and plugins (Android, iOS, ...
• lesson 20: Create new device definitions
• lesson 21: free topic
• lesson 22: Hints for testers and test reporting
• appendix1: Summary of commands ans shortcuts
• appendix2: Kernel menu tree

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Overview

In this lesson a final overview about the basic concepts for using the DMXControl 3 software is given. This completes the first part of the lectures "Basics, Setup and configuration"

Lecture 7: Summary and Details of Setup

Now we will finalise our first expedition through DMXControl by investigating other generic features.

There are lots of additional buttons in the main menu for operational support:

• File
  • Here you can create, open and save projects
  • With "project properties" you can assign some notices to the current project
• Windows
  • Beside some tools that will be explained laterly, here you have a chat tool. It is helpful, if several operators are programmers work in parallel with DMXControl 3. They can exchange some messages here.
  • The "manual beat tool" compares to the corresponding tool in DMXControl 2. By pressing the space key you can generate manual beats
• Settings
  • Application settings: Double click the icons in order to set configuration options.

On left hand side you have some global icons. here we want to refer to

• Fog
  • Here you have several operational modes for your DMX-controled fog device
• Highlight
• Blackout
  • As the name indicates: Blackout of all devices

The project explorer also contains some general buttons:

• Edit -
• Create directory / create device group -
• Up / Down -
• Device Manager -
• Add item list / add Live view
• Import / export files

This is for administative operations in your device configuration.

One helpful tool is missing for basic checks and settings of DMX channels: the channel overview. Here you get an overview about the current output. With the slider on left hand side you can also modify the value of selected channel.

topics to be added (by beta testers)

Excercise

• Set channel 34 to DMX value 128 with help of channel overview
• Try the Highlight and Blackout mode (see results in Liveview panel)

Certificate

Great! You have now completed the first part of the DMXControl lecture!

I have understood the topics of this lecture and want to continue with next course: Lesson 8