Lesson 12 Tut3

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Lesson 11 Lesson 13 table of content Lesson 1: Installation and configuration Lesson 2: The Panel concept of DMXControl 3 GUI Lesson 3: The Project Explorer Lesson 4: The Stage view Lesson 5: Device properties and its control Lesson 6: Configuration of output plugins Lesson 7: Summary and some more details of setup Lesson 8: Cues and cue lists Lesson 9: Fanning, Chasers and other effects Lesson 10: The Programmer view Lesson 11: Triggers in cue lists Lesson 12: Edit of cues and cue lists Lesson 13: Presets Lesson 14: Summary and details - Programming Lesson 15: Executors and use of cue lists Lesson 16: Softdesk Lesson 17: Audio analyser Lesson 18: Multimedia Support Lesson 19: Other DMX Clients Lesson 20: Create new device definitions Lesson 21: Summary and details for Execution Lesson 22: Input Assignment Lesson 23: Create a RGB Matrix Lesson 24: Transfer DMX values via ArtNet to DMXControl 2 Appendix 1: Commands and Shortcuts Appendix 2: Tips for Testing and behaviot in error case

Overview

In this lesson we explain advanced edit features for scenes and scene lists, e.g. for modification of already saved scenes. So you can copy and customize cues very effectively and almost EXCEL like.

Lecture 12: Editing scenes and scene lists

In Lesson 8 we introduced the scene lists. In this lecture more advanced features are explained.

Picture 1: Menu of the Programmer

By default, a new scene is added to an existing scene list by pressing the button "Add Cue". When you open the small drop-down arrow on right hand side of this button, you see some more sophisticated capabilities with their keyboard shortcut. In most cases you will first select (i.e. highlight) a scene before modifying it.

Picture 2: View of the drop-down-menu of "Add Cue"

The following operations are related to the values in the Programmer.

Function	short code	Description	Comment
Add	Ctrl+A	add a new scene to scene list at the end	default
Insert	Ctrl+I	insert a new scene to scene-list before selected scene
Replace	Ctrl+R	replace current scene attributes by the values in the Programmer
Merge	Ctrl+M	merges selected scene with Programmer values	Programmer values with higher priority
Append	Ctrl+P	append new property from Programmer to the selected scene	existing scene with higher priority, new values from Programmer are added
Subtract	Ctrl+B	removes a property from selected scene	hint: modify the wanted property so that this appears in the Programmer
Sum (Special)		Inserts current output of devices into Cue List
PSum (Special)		Similar to Sum, but related to currently selected devices in Stage View
Preset (Special)		Opens a window where you have the capability to add a Preset to Cue List
Scenelist (Special)		Inserts (similar to commands in DMXControl 2) a entry to impact another cue list

In a similar way, there are also edit operations for the scene list itself. As known from EXCEL you can copy, cut and delete whole rows. With copy and paste you can take single values from one field or a cue to another field of other cues.

Picture 3: View of drop-down-menu of "Edit"

Here is the summarizing table for explanation again:

Function	short code	Description	Comment
Edit in Programmer		Selected cue is loaded into Programmer. Programmer Output Mode is set to All
Edit in Programmer Blind		Selected cue is loaded into Programmer. Programmer Output Mode is set to Blind
Cut	Ctrl+X	cut the selected scene	like EXCEL "cut row"
Copy	Ctrl+C	copy the selected scene	like EXCEL "copy row"
Paste	Ctrl+V	paste the selected scene	like EXCEL "paste row"
Delete	Del	delete the selected scene	like EXCEL "delete row"
Renumber Cues			Renumber Cues
Cue Timing Editor			a separate editor is opened

Picture 4: View of drop-down-menu of "Options"

Function	Description	Comment
Tracking	If tracking is active a value remains active until it is overwritten by another cue (or the cue list is finished). If tracking is disabled, only the stored values ​​are active on output that are in the current cue. All others are faded out.
Reset when Released	Cue List jumps to first entry, after last cue was executed
Use Cue Time as Back Time	After a jump back in the Cue List, the times of the cues are used for the crossfade.
Use Cue Time as GoTo Time	After a jump forward in the Cue List, the times of the cues are used for the crossfade.
Autoprepare	DMXControl prepares headlights already automatically on the mission (color and gobo is selected in advance etc.). That way you will not need to worry about it. On active Autoprepare you can deactivate this function for single cues with the checkbox Ap.

Exercise

1) Test the append and subtract cue functions

Lesson 11 Lesson 13 table of content Lesson 1: Installation and configuration Lesson 2: The Panel concept of DMXControl 3 GUI Lesson 3: The Project Explorer Lesson 4: The Stage view Lesson 5: Device properties and its control Lesson 6: Configuration of output plugins Lesson 7: Summary and some more details of setup Lesson 8: Cues and cue lists Lesson 9: Fanning, Chasers and other effects Lesson 10: The Programmer view Lesson 11: Triggers in cue lists Lesson 12: Edit of cues and cue lists Lesson 13: Presets Lesson 14: Summary and details - Programming Lesson 15: Executors and use of cue lists Lesson 16: Softdesk Lesson 17: Audio analyser Lesson 18: Multimedia Support Lesson 19: Other DMX Clients Lesson 20: Create new device definitions Lesson 21: Summary and details for Execution Lesson 22: Input Assignment Lesson 23: Create a RGB Matrix Lesson 24: Transfer DMX values via ArtNet to DMXControl 2 Appendix 1: Commands and Shortcuts Appendix 2: Tips for Testing and behaviot in error case