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Overview

In this lesson we explain how to apply presets. By re-using presets you are more efficiently when programming your show.

Lecture 13: Presets

Presets are very similar to cues. You can create them in the same way, see lesson 8. Similar the the button "Create cue" here you find the button "Create preset". You can use presets to store different values for the parameters of your fixtures. You can store:

moving light positions
colors of RGB Pars
combination of gobo, shutter on and color
generic chasers (where you later only replace/modify the color)
or simply intensities of your conventional fixtures
etc.

The big advantage of using presets is, that it's referenced data. That means, whenever you record a cue using presets, not the actual values, but a link to the preset is stored. So keep in mind, if you change your preset, all cues that use this preset will use the new values. A simple example where presets can rapidly speed up programming would be: You've recorded a color of your cyc wash as a preset and used this preset in five cues. If you later decide to modify the cyc wash a bit, you just need to update one preset instead of five cues. However if you just want to change the color in one cue you can do that by overwriting the reference with manual data. (i hope!)

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Recording Presets

Modifying Presets

If you want to modify an existing preset, select the preset you want to modify and click on the arrow right of the "Store Preset" Button. A menu will pop up, where you can choose how to modify the preset. Options are explained in the following

Replace

Replace will remove all existing entries from the preset and save everything that is in the programmer to the preset.

Merge

Entries that are not in the programmer but in the preset, are not touched. Existing entries will be updated and missing ones will be added

Append

Entries that are in the programmer but not in the preset will be appended to the preset. Entries that are in the programmer and in the preset, will stay untouched in the preset and the entries in the programmer will be removed.

Substract

Entries that are in the programmer and also exist in the preset will be removed from the preset. However keep in mind, not the new value is substracted from the old, but the whole property will be removed from the preset.

Update

don't ask me... no clue

Deleteing Presets

/*After you have created your presets you can use it in two (TODO: should be more than two scenarios) scenarios: using the complete preset or using of parts of a preset*/

Applying Presets

You can "drag&drop" a preset into your scene list. A copy of your "preset cue" will be inserted. All values from the preset are taken over into the new cue.

Applying Presets for Selected Fixtures Only

TODO: uhm should work, ha?

Applying Selected Parameters of Presets

It is also possible to take not the whole preset, but only a selected attribute from the preset for your current cue. For this case you drag&drop the preset to your dedicated attribute, e.g. the dimmer. Please have a view to the programmer: You can see that in our case the dimmer value was taken from the preset.

Applying Selected Parameters of Presets for Selected Fixtures Only

TODO: i guess this should work, too.

/*Attention Presets resp. values from presets are taken as references to original preset. If you modidy afterwards the preset, all reference values are changed automatically. This behaviour can be beneficially applied when adapting a show by only modifying few presets.*/

topics to be added (by beta testers)

yah first release the beta, than we'll see what to add here...

TODO: some paragraphs sound odd, going to change that later ...
TODO: check terms that dmxc uses, here is what i normaly use:
- - intensity of fixture or just intensity instead of dimmer value
- - parameters are pan/tilt, color, intensity
- - pan/tilt: focus?
- - attributes: follow, wait, trigger in cue list...
- -
TODO: remove attention notice. That should be clear to the reader till there.
TODO: add some better explanation what presets are.
TODO: capitalization of paragraph heading?

Excercise

Create some presets and use it in your scene list

Additional links and references

Certificate

I have understood the topics of this lecture and want to continue with next course: Lecture14: XXXX

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 ===Modifying Presets===
+If you want to modify an existing preset, select the preset you want to modify and click on the arrow right of the "Store Preset" Button. A menu will pop up, where you can choose how to modify the preset. Options are explained in the following
+====Replace====
+Replace will remove all existing entries from the preset and save everything that is in the programmer to the preset.
+====Merge====
+Entries that are not in the programmer but in the preset, are not touched. Existing entries will be updated and missing ones will be added
+====Append====
+Entries that are in the programmer but not in the preset will be appended to the preset. Entries that are in the programmer and in the preset, will stay untouched in the preset and the entries in the programmer will be removed.
+====Substract====
+Entries that are in the programmer and also exist in the preset will be removed from the preset. However keep in mind, not the new value is substracted from the old, but the whole property will be removed from the preset.
+====Update====
+don't ask me... no clue