Edward Z88

Hi Olly, Apologies if I’ve misunderstood your description. So basically you want to be able to introduce a playback which is controlling lights that are already controlled by an active playback, and rather than seeing attributes changing, the fixtures fade down and then up? If so, for the playback you are fading in, you could have 2 cues programmed. The second being your desired lighting, which could auto follow from cue 1. Cue 1, would then be these fixtures at 0%, so when the playback is raised, these fixtures fade off, move on dark runs, and then fades the new state on. You would of course need the intensity mixing to be set to LTP. You would also need to ensure you select your fixtures, @ ., and then record the first blackout cue with SmartTag disabled, so the console stores the fixtures at 0%. Stomping wouldn’t solve this, as it would essentially release the currently active playback. Edward

Hello, Welcome to the Zero 88 Forum. Fixture numbers are tied to the channel fader number, so channel faders cannot be numbered separately to the fixture number. You could however store each fixture to its own playback if you wanted to, so that each fixture is on a playback page in your custom order. Hope this helps, Edward

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No problem, any questions let me know. Edward

Hi Olly, I have updated the guide as per Phantom ZerOS 7.9.7, as the CITP option is now under Universes rather than Visualisation. You should find if you start Capture with Phantom's CITP IP of 127.0.0.1 chosen, Capture detects the CITP protocol. Toggling from and then back to the 127.0.0.1 will prompt Capture to detect this IP. Edward

You won't need to change any IPs if you are controlling Capture from Phantom on the same PC, as you will; simply need the PCs loopback IP of 127.0.0.1. Edward

Hi Olly, SHIFT + F10 is the keyboard shortcut for the SETUP key. This will work if your active window is the LCD or External Monitor windows. To make them active click in the Windows, or close and reopen the window from the Phantom launcher. Hope this helps, Edward

Hi Olly, For information on how to connect Capture and Phantom on the same PC, see below... http://support.zero88.com/988883201 If you have any questions let me know. Edward

Hi Rob, There is no need to eject the USB stick. When you’re done you can simply unplug it. Edward

Hi Rick, Great glad to hear it. If you have any questions let me know. Edward

Hi Rick, To configure a cue to automatically follow the previous, tap the Settings button at the end of the cue’s row in the cue list window. Then from the trigger drop down, choose Auto After. You can then configure a wait time if you wish, and click OK. Hope this helps, Edward

Hi Rick, Yep that’s it. If you program the blackout in there, the console will be able to prep the fixtures for you. If a quick move is required, hold SETUP and tap the playback’s button to open the Playback Settings. Then tap Move On Dark from the top. You can then configure the delay which is the time the console waits once the fixture is at 0%, and the fade is the duration the fixtures then take to move. In your example the third cue, could be an Auto After previous, so you simply press Go to go into black, and the console then moves the light and turns it back on automatically. Hope this helps, Edward

Nah go for it I call that ingenuity. Don’t worry I won’t tell the marketing team 😂 Edward

Hi Rick, Welcome to the Zero 88 Forum. By default, the console will do this work for you, without having to change the fixture’s control channel. This function is called Move On Dark. Whenever you store a cue where a moving light is at 0% intensity, the console will see if it can prepare its colour, beam and position information to the values needed for the next time the light is on. I’d therefore recommend not using the Control function, as this is available for if you are using a console without Move On Dark functionality. That’s correct. If you wish to delete a single cue, or a few cues from the playback, tap DELETE, and then using the MFKs type the cue number you wish to delete, and then press the playback’s button. You can then confirm to delete the cue. The same process as above goes for inserting cues. Create your lighting state you wish to insert, tap RECORD, and then using the MFKs type the cue number you wish to store this as, such as 10.5, and then press and playback’s button to store this onto. The INSERT button used to be used in older software versions. Now the INSERT button is a spare button, which you can configure to give advanced functions. To do this hold SETUP and tap INSERT, and then choose a normal and a shifted function. If you wish to confirm your current software version, tap Other Windows, which is found top left of the Output Window. From the drop down choose System Information. In here will be a line of text showing the software version. If this is the mode you’re happy in that’s fine. The video below explains tracking, which might help you out... Hope this helps, if you have any questions let me know. Edward

Hi Nigel, In the Universes area of Capture, can you see the FLX S? In this area there should be an option for “Project Console Link”. Have you restarted your Mac after configuring any IP address settings? If not this would be worth doing. There aren’t really any switches or settings required - Capture is pretty good at detecting the stream of DMX data, and connecting to it. As a side note, the DMX area of SETUP -> Universes on FLX S is purely controlling the physical DMX ports on the back of the console, not Ethernet DMX. Usual DMX trouble shooting applies, of ensuring the patch in Capture matches on the console. This includes addresses and mode, and also fixture number when using CITP. If you have any questions let me know. Edward

Hello, If you have a touchscreen laptop, or a touchscreen connected to a PC, this could be connected to FLX S over the network to give you an external touchscreen. More information can be found here... http://support.zero88.com/999689141 Hope this helps, Edward

Hi Nigel, Thanks very much for giving information on your troubleshooting so far. Firstly, you have both sACN and CITP enabled. Only use one protocol to communicate with Capture, otherwise Capture won’t know which stream to connect to. Either protocol can be used to send DMX data to Capture, however CITP allows for selection information and 2 way communication. If you wish to use CITP, disable sACN. This is why you also see the connection status in the System Text. After doing this, restart Capture - does Capture respond to the console? If not tap SETUP -> Universes -> CITP -> Reset to Defaults, and start from universe 0. Hope this helps, let me know how you get on. Edward

Hello, Sorry to hear this, thank you very much for the information. We will continue to investigate this further. Edward

Hi Rob, Welcome to the Zero 88 Forum. As Eric and Kevin says, monitors cannot be connected over USB. You can however connect an external monitor, using the remote apps over a network. If you have any questions let us know. Edward

Hello, To only store the intensity effect, turn the fixtures on, and then apply the effect. And ensure all other parameters are still in their defaults and not adjusted. Doing this will only tag intensity and effects. Then disable SmartTag from the Record Options window, and store your cue. Hope this helps, Edward

Hello, If you program your chaser effects as separate cues in a cue stack, enabling fader controls effect will adjust the speed, and the size of the intensity effect, as well as the intensity. You may want to set the intensity mixing to Latest Takes Precedence when using intensity effects, otherwise if the fixtures are up already from another playback, raising the chaser effect playback will have no affect. Hope this helps, Edward

Hi all, Thanks David and Kevin for helping, explanations are all good thank you! Key thing to remember when you want to program specific parameters, is to turn SmartTag off. That way the console will only store what is tagged. If you have seen this article already apologies, but may be useful to others reading the thread... http://support.zero88.com/1014189311 Hope this helps, if you have any questions let me know. Edward

Hi Tom, The key thing to remember, is if you have 2 lighting states you know you would never need to mix together, these could instead be 2 cues on a playback, rather than 2 individual playbacks. That’s correct, the process of holding SHIFT + tapping RECORD, is called a Record All. If you then choose to tap an empty palette, as the name suggests, all fixtures are included in the palette, with all attributes stored (including intensity), irrespective of the type of palette you chose to tap. It’s what we call a “Look” palette. You will notice when stored it is annotated with “ICBPE”, for Intensity, Colour, Beam, Position and Effect, rather than a single letter for that specific attribute. As always if you have any questions just let me know. Edward

Hi Nick, When you press “Automatically Create Macros”, the console creates fixture macros based on the information in the fixture library. As well as these, on Solution consoles you can program custom macros. These can either store a sequence of button presses, or store whatever is written in the command line. To store a macro, tap RECORD -> MACRO, and choose an empty macro to store to. You can then choose to store “Keys” or “Commands”. When you have chosen this, anything you press will be recorded. You will see bottom right of the external monitor the console is now storing your macro. A common example for a macro, is a macro that stores a blackout cue. To do this, you could type: 1 THRU @ . RECORD ENTER Then press your Macro MFK, to stop recording the macro. You will then be able to press this macro at any point, to record your blackout. As you can see there’s a huge range of possibilities of macros you could program, depending on how you want to speed up using the console. If you have any questions let me know. Edward

Hi Tom, Thanks very much for your detailed post. You mention you have 6 DMX channels of house lights. Which of these do you need separate control of? If for example you control channels 1,2,3 together, and 4,5,6 together, you could patch 2 fixtures on the console with one of these addresses, and then add the remaining couple of addresses to that fixture. Then if the house lights aren’t stored in any other playbacks, you can simply control these 2 fixtures on the console using the channel faders, giving you access to the 3 house lights channels per channel fader. If you have a single playback free for this, you could program various predefined architectural looks into this playback as multiple cues, and use the button underneath to choose which state to output. You can then raise the fader when you’re happy to output the lighting state. In the same way as above, could you use a single playback fader with multiple cues stored, which you could then use to choose a cue to output to choose your level of haze? You mentioned you use programmer time with a mixture of palettes to control fixtures live. I’d recommend having a play with Record All and palettes. To do this, create your lighting state. Then hold SHIFT and tap RECORD, and then tap any empty palette. Your lighting state is then stored to the palette. Therefore selecting the fixtures, enabling programmer time, and tapping the palette will fade this lighting state in. Edward