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I'm on FLX and have the same problem. I've asked Jon to unlock the secrets with more detail in the FLX manual, but it seems like this is not an isolated usability weakness. Sorry I can't help you more other than to agree and sympathise! Kevin

Please link the manual and say what modes you want!

Check the date of the post (although I have to admit he did have me there for a moment, when I went "Wha????" )

p55 the Cue Settings screenshot shows a Cleanup... button. This isn't described that I could see.

Stefan - for clarification, you need to be logged in to see the "Software Testing and Beta Releases" forum ("guest" can't see it as it's a controlled forum). Kevin

I see why no-one else has volunteered for this one... http://www.arri.com/skypanel/assets/downloads/SkyPanel_DMX_Implementation_Table_V4.0.pdf Most of the modes are in here, for the RP and C versions. (Forum wouldn't allow me to upload the fixture file, so I've emailed it to Jon for him to attach).

For this manual: https://www.maxlight.ru/downloads/acme/falcon.pdf This fixture profile: acme_falcon.ift

This manual? http://www.kam.co.uk/media/file/product/manual/Kam%20KHM800%20manual%20V2%2006-11-12.pdf The '600 doesn't have DMX so no use at all. This fixture profile: KAM_KHM800v2.ift

Maybe try releasing all fixtures: Clear+Fader Function

So I haven't tried this through to loading the fixture into the FLX, but I can certainly attach an image to a DMX range. So - you have a beamshape attribute for say gobo. Details tab. Name=gobo1, End Value=23, Mid=15 Load - pick an image for the gobo Insert Name=gobo2, End Value=50, Mid=40 Load - gobo2 image Insert etc until you've gone all the way to End Value=255 Load/Insert OK This saves OK for me and attaches the gobo images to the ranges as above. Does this not work for you?

Hi Ollie, In the fixture editor, in the beamshape attribute, click the Details tab, then you can select the DMX range for the gobo and load the image against that range. Hope that helps. Kevin

Probably the battery. Do you know if this has ever been changed in the 12 years? If not, then you might have an early unit with a Varta cell which needs soldering... See: http://zero88.com/support/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/546/31/replacement-battery-information If your FF has black DMX sockets then see: http://zero88.com/forum/topic/7384-internal-memory-issue/#entry28968 If it has silver DMX sockets (hence the Varta cell), ring Keith at Zero88. Regards, Kevin

Hi John, I think a similar scenario came up recently with move-on-dark look-ahead with jump cues. Take a look at this topic: http://zero88.com/forum/topic/7386-move-in-dark-problems-when-jumping-cues/#entry28970 If it looks the same scenario as your needs then there is an enhancement request now in place: http://zero88.com/forum/topic/7386-move-in-dark-problems-when-jumping-cues/#entry29000 HTH. Regards, Kevin

You have to use an *active* DVI-D to VGA converter. The desk doesn't give analogue outputs on the DVI pins (it's DVI-D not DVI-A) so you can't just use a connector style converter. Kevin

For manuals, best to link as you have. To upload, need to click the "More Reply Options" tab at the bottom right when doing "Reply". Then you use "Choose file" and then remember to click "Attach This File"! I need to work out how to do those multiple quote boxes that Jon does on reply! I fiddled on my last reply but just couldn't get it to work! As you're a new member your Personal Messenger doesn't seem to work - maybe you need 10 or so posts before this gets enabled - bet you're about there now!

Hi Andy, Some questions not clear without the manual - can you link it? The 4 channel mode uses a dimming algorithm internal to the fixture. In theory this should be better (i.e. smoother) than the desk just scaling the R/G/B values. On a cheap fixture there might not be much difference, but on a "professional" fixture, the internal dimmer should be much better suited to dimming LED elements. Give it a go! I dont understand Channel 8 - would need to look at the manual. Sounds a bit awkward having a "config" setting at the top end of the dimmer channel - I try to avoid those! I see Jon's just posted - as he says, you can't just casually ignore DMX addresses the fixture will decode, because if you patch it and take 7 DMX addresses, then the fixture channel 8 will respond to DMX data you intended for another dimmer or fixture listening at that address. Define the parameter or use "DMX Allocate" to say you need 8 DMX addresses but are only defining the function of 7 of them. Personally I'd define it but not use it. Remember to allocate it to a wheel though. No idea what Ch7 is all about - again, would need the manual. Kevin I think this is the unit? http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/1685456.pdf Ch7 ID is a sub-addressing feature for controllers with limited DMX address range. Your LeapFrog has 2 DMX universes, I can't see you needing this feature unless you intend buying a lot of these fixtures (please don't!) Map it as a Beamshape parameter just to keep it under control, with Home=0. Ch8 I'd map as a "Beamshape" parameter, then at least you have control over that channel so there is no chance of it going haywire, and you can dial up the delayed-response feature if you fancied. ps - Good luck, I don't think you'll find those cheap LED units based on standard 5mm or 10mm LEDs much use. Maybe a bit of on-stage eye candy, but pretty much no use for lighting actors (no beam as such, multicolour shadows, poor overall brightness, horrible RGB white...).

The image is not of any use for LeapFrog, but show up during fixture selection on FLX (and probably the other higher-end Z88 consoles), so I like to include it :-) I'm glad you're using the Fixture Editor - it's really easy to put together your own fixture. The "defaults" that I've picked up from Jon along the way include: - Dimmer Special=Dimmer, Home=255 - For any fixture or mode that does not include a Dimmer channel as a mapped DMX address, then add a Dimmer and set it to "virtual" and mark all of the R/G/B/W/A/UV etc as scaled by virtual intensity. - Red, Green, Blue set the Special to Red-Positive etc and Home=255 (==RGB white) - White or Amber or UV set the Special to Other Colour and Home=0 - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow set Home=0 (==white as subtractive) - Hue set Home=0, Sat set Home=255 - Any generalised "colour macro" is named "Color1" - harks back to the MAC500 type fixtures I think. - Filling in DMX ranges and "colour defined" and "is dark" on the Detail tab is used on the FLX and higher consoles - Strobes and similar beam operations go under Beamshape - For the Frog and Jester series make sure you allocate parameters to 3-wheel groups. To support the Illusion series, allocate the 4-wheel groups too. - The "long name" of the fixture needs a constant root part then the channel variants after a colon - The "short name" is used by the Frog (and Jester?) consoles I tend to make the most complex mode first then copy and strip down for the other modes. Remember to correct the "DMX allocate" value for only the required number of DMX addresses. http://zero88.com/forum/topic/7375-spotlight-fresneled150-rgbw-fixture-profile/#entry28927 http://zero88.com/forum/topic/7329-fixture-request-flx/#entry28698

ZOS-6982 - tick ZOS-6983 - tick Predictable really, I know, sorry! (But all in good time, of course, there are plenty of things already on that "list" I'm sure!) Rob - looks like 3 releases away earliest, so could be around a year?

BlueRoom recently had a topic on Channels 5 and 6 flickering. http://www.blue-room.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=66529 Turned out to be a missing jumper on one of the 120V/240V selection headers, so worth checking these are still in place (there are two on a Betapack1) if you have this issue.

Cameo Studio PAR 64 RGBW (the one in the library is incorrect apparently). All 5 mode options (2ch, 3 modes 1 and 2, 4ch, 7ch). Regards, Kevin cameo_par_rgbw.ift

If this is the manual for your Cameo Studio PAR 64 RGBW: http://adamhall.invaliddomain.de/out/media/downloads/MARKEN/CAMEO/CLPST64Q8W/CLPST64Q8W_Cameo_Bedienungsanleitung_EN_DE_FR_ES_IT_PL.pdf Then here is a fixture file [see bottom of this post] for all 5 modes (2ch, 3ch x2, 4ch, 7ch)... (you'll need to shorten the IFT file filename for a floppy, sorry!). Copy it onto a floppy. On the desk: 1. Go into Super User (hold + and - and press Enter) 2. Desk Setup 3. Assign Fixtures 4. Use + and - to pick a fixture number -> lets use 1... 5. Down arrow (V) 6. Minus (-) -> "Select Fixture from Floppy Disk" 7. Enter 8. + and - to list "Cameo" 9. Down arrow (V) 10. + and - to select the fixture variant you want - let's say the 7 channel one 11. Enter. Should now see the yellow LED lit in Fixture button 1. 12. Up arrow (^) (now on "Exit"), Enter Now need to patch the fixture to the required DMX address. 13. Down, Down (on "Patch Functions"), Enter 14. I tend to use Manual Patch... 15. Click the Fixture 1 button (red LED will light), this should jump the patch list down to Fixture 1. 16. You now need to set the DMX address for your Cameo PAR. Let's say "49". You can press "+" and the desk will give you "049" which is the next available address after the 48 generic channels. If you've got an external keyboard attached, you can type the DMX start address. Whatever method, this number needs to match the one you've set on the back of the Cameo PAR unit. 17. Down arrow (on "Exit"), Enter 18. Up arrow (on "Exit"), Enter 19. Down x5 (on "Exit Desk Setup"), Enter 20. "Desk Setup Modified. Save Changes?" [OK] Enter 21. Up arrow (on "Exit Super User"), Enter OK assignment and patch done. Click "Outputs" button (I'm hoping you've got an external monitor attached). Click Fixture 1 button - red LED comes on and Monitor should now show "Fixture 1: Cameo StPAR RGBW : 7 ch" If you press the "Home" button then the PAR should come on at full brightness RGB "white". You will see under "Fixture Brightness Outputs" that 01 has "FF" under it (FF=full) and under the "Fixture 1" banner, Dimmer 100%, Red 255, Gree 255 Blue 255 White 0 Color1 0 Strobe 0. The Wheel LCD middle wheel has "Dimmer 100%" above it. Play with the wheel. Click "Colour" button. Wheel LCD now has Red, Green, Blue. Click the Colour button again, now you get White and Color1 (i.e. a second "page" of colour attributes). Click "Beamshape", middle wheel has Strobe. Play with the colours and strobe. When you're happy, set up your generics on the faders, click Program and you've saved your first cue of generics and fixtures! Here endeth the first lesson. Sorry if you already knew most of this........! Kevin cameo_studio_par64_rgbw.ift

Hi Andy, Glad you got the desk up and running! Also glad you got the floppy working on the PC as it sounds like we need to build a new fixture definition for your PAR! I'd recommend patching your LED PAR as a fixture - otherwise you'll eat up 6 (or 7 or whatever it needs) of your faders for each unit which means you'll struggle to keep 2-preset operation for your generics. Also accessing strobes and other functions of your LEDs is much easier as a fixture and you can use colour palettes! Don't panic it will all become second nature soon! Regards, Kevin Tried to PM you, but seems you need a few more posts first before your messenger is enabled. If you like, do you want a phone chat on this?

Hi Andy, I've had my FatFrog since 2006 (from new) and I've changed the battery twice. The original battery fitted in the desk lasted easily 5 years maybe more. The replacement one I installed, even though it was a known brand (maybe Duracell) lasted less than 3 years before I lost my show cues as mentioned above - which was why it was a surprise as I knew the cell hadn't been in "that long". The desk battery monitor doesn't work well with the coin cells presumably because of their voltage discharge profile (I think the circuit was designed for the Varta supercaps used in earlier designs). My desk always said "battery ok" even when the cell was exhausted and I'd lost memory contents. The indicator for me is always that the time/date has gone bonkers, then I know I'm going to lose data the next time the desk is switched off. I'm now working on a 3 year maximum, but should probably replace after 2 years. As you say, they are dirt cheap and relatively easy to replace. I've now moved on to an FLX, and since this is a new product, and new for me, we still have to work out how its battery performs... yikes! Good luck! Kevin If you really wanted to swap the floppy for USB, then I believe this "i889900" version works in the Frogs. At your own risk though, I have no experience of them. If you search the Z88 Forum (or Blueroom Forum) you will find a fair few people who've done the conversion. The floppy drive in my FF has been faultless so I've not been tempted to change it. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231653390847?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Also whilst I'm here, download and have a read of the Release Notes. Lots of features have been added since the Manual. The RN's are very readable but you will have to mentally "splice" them into your brain and be aware of features that evolved over the 10.9 thru 10.12 releases and make sure you understand the latest "version" of each piece of functionality as you go through the releases. All good stuff though. http://zero88.com/support/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/GetAttachment/56/554 Even if you don't want to get into tracking, I'd get familiar with things like "Grab Mode" though - that can be very useful during a show! Blueroom topic on USB emulators. As Jon says in that thread, not supported by Z88! http://www.blue-room.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=50532

From the manual p42 so long as you selected universe 2 when you patched the fixtures then you should be good. A universe is just another independent set of 512 DMX channels so it's just a patching action on the desk, your LED lights will just have an address in the 1-512 range on their setting. In the Edit Fixtures screen under the DMX column you should see entries like 2/xxx where xxx is your fixture DMX address, manual p45. Can you plug your LED PAR straight into the universe 2 socket on the desk just to get it going? Kevin

Hi Andy, You can buy a USB floppy drive for 8 quid and plug into your computer. Much less hassle and risk than trying to find a paged USB drive that fits and works in your Frog. http://www.amazon.co.uk/External-USB-Floppy-Drive-Black/dp/B00095KY7U (this was just the first I found on a quick Google). If you want, PM me your address and I'll post you a couple of floppy's, one with 10.12 on. Kevin With a flat battery you might find some of your show is there but later cues have disappeared. I've had this... at a Dress Rehearsal! Get that battery changed pronto!