Lesson 7 Tut3

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Overview

In this lesson a final overview about the basic concepts for setting up 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.

DMXControl 3 is very focused on working with groups of devices. These groups can be defined in a very effective and flexible. Due to the strong abstraction of device properties you can also combine different types of devices in groups (and later programmed uniformly). Also adding devices later to a group is no problem.

The management of all elements is centralized in the Project Explorer. Here you keep control over your devices, groups, views, cue lists, and so on. The new panel concept requires some practice, but you'll love it if you mastered it. So you can adjust the DMXControl 3 completely according to your needs!

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.
- Here we refer to the Affinity feature: DMXControl is trying to calculate similarities of gobos. Wants to have two moving lights with different gobos and eg in (mixed) property grid select both a "starry sky", it tries to automatically take the most similar gobo.

With this option you can manually adjust the "similarities" to your subjective view. Template:Bild mit Unterschrift

On the right side is of course the first place with the same logo. If this does not exist, it will automatically put the underlying etc. With up and down, you can manually change the order.

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
- Rapid activation and deactivation of a device by simply clicking. Particularly suitable for the illumination settings.
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 (Windows -> 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 (observe results in Stage view 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

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