genius motorshow 575 fixture.

I haven't been using my frog for while and with that, I haven't kept up to date with software upgrades and I'm hoping to use it on Friday for a concert.

The frog OS is 5.4 (bought Feb 2008) and I would like to upgrade it to the latest OS so do I need to do a gradual upgrade from 5.4 to 6.0 then 7.6 or can I go from 5.4 straight to 7.6? (I don't have the Zero88 branded USB as it stopped working months ago)

Thank you

Fcpa

I used to use the Bull Frog desk and switched to Leap Frog 48 two years ago.

One feature I am really missing is the "Transfer with time"-function the older desk offered. That way I could easily prepare a variety of chases using submasters and then simply transfer these into the cue stack. I have not yet found a way of doing so with the leap frog. Any ideas of how to do that? Or could a future uupdate solve this issue?

Similar issue: Will it be possible to transfer output values from one channel to another - for example, if I have a very nice chase using channels 3 to 6, will there be a possibility to transfer that chase to channels 7 to 10?

- Johnny

Could additional screens similar to "Wheel" be created for other sections such as "Submasters", "Presets" (in 3 rows of 36?) and "DMX In"? Alternatively could the screen be re-sizable?

I am very used to using the Jester 24/48 desks but recently started working in a theatre which has a Jester ML48 desk. The transition was fairly straight forward for static lights however i don't have much experience with ML Fixtures.

The current hang includes 1 Mac250 Krypton and 1 iMove 250.

I have patched them into the board and can control them individually but the problem comes when I try to program them as a pair. They both moved in opposite directions when using the control wheel. I solved this by rehanging the iMove250 and that seemed to solve that problem...surely I was missing a trick as your desk seems to have more than enough control options?

My new problem is that when I press the Home button the Mac defaults to an open shutter where as the iMove defaults to a closed shutter. Is there any way I can default them so they do the same thing when home is pressed? 

I apologise, but as stated I am a real newbie when it comes to ML fixtures and I'm finding it really frustrating and time consuming.

I would love to attend your training day but I am out of the country, so any simple written advice would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks 

Dave     

I am trying to insert a few programme steps between two existing steps that have only integers assigned (i.e. no .x in the step number) and I am struggling to add more than one step. I have found a "work around" but I'm not sure if its the correct method (I'm new to the jester desk).

If I use the insert button I get the extra steps x.1 to x.9 appearing and I can select one of them to programme but as soon as I press the program button all the other x.y steps disappear. If I try the insert button again on the integer step or the x.y step that was saved I cannot bring up the other 8 blank steps.

What I did find was that if I save the programme to a file and reload it I can go back to the integer step, press the insert button and get the remaining x.y memories to appear and programme one of them.

This seems a bit of a convoluted process, could you advise if there is a better way of adding in several steps in one go.

Thanks

PS using phantom ver 3.1 

I know they are not hidden as I have all files show, plus when I go into the fixture editor and hit load file, the files show up in the correct folder.

Has anyone else experienced this issue or know what the cause may be?

Thank you!

I have a Zero 88 Jester TLxtra and have tried to download the Phantom Jester program from the zero 88 website to my windows 7 computer but it always comes up with this:

The requested document was not found on this server.

Please can you send me a link that will let me download it.

Many Thanks

J Connell

I have magic Q on my mac and a USB to DMX unit so I can use the mac as a lighting controller.

I also have a ML48 and understand you can plug a wing into it on the DMX in.

Could I actually use the magic Q software and USB > DMX unit, plugged into the ML48 to give me additional faders and use Magic Q as another wing to the ML48?

Look forward to hearing your thoughts and how this could be done.

many thanks

Adrian

I'm trying to create a fixture type for the following:

Longman RGBW LED Par (P64-18-10-Full RGBW)

I have downloaded the fixtue type editor but not entirely sure what i'm doing. Any help or a fixture type for this would be appreciated.

Thanks

In our theatre I would like to remove the need to fly our Fat Frog from the perch down to the auditorium for focusing and plotting to reduce the amount of bashing it gets. We have already substitued a small desk for focusing, but obviously this is no use for plotting.

I was wondering about putting together a simple program to control the 48 channels (and fixtures if I could be bothered to do it) which can save the looks of each scene and output a show file which the Fat Frog can read. It might still need tidying up, but this would be better than flying the desk up and down every few weeks.

Is there a reference anywhere of the exact show file format for a Fat Frog which I could have? This is strictly non-commercial and intended to save knocks to our precious desk.

Peter Vincent

Lighting Manager

Chesil Theatre (reg charity and amateur member owned)

  I want a patch from one channel for automatic but but let me patch from 201

Thanks for the explanation of the ORB XF at the booth in Frankfurt!

After the demo in Frankfurt I wanted to play a little with the Phantom OrbXF, but unfortunately I always get the message "Load Fixture Type failed". Please see the attached jpg for details

This also appears starting other versions. Curios: It worked before! Ok., I always had the problem that I could not close the application, I had to "kill" it by terminating the process via task manager.

I tried a lot to get it run, changed the installation path, run as admin, changed the directory in the settings, reinstalled the application, cleaned the registry (at least what I found)  etc.
Nothing works.

The hardware and software I'm using is a Lenovo Thinkpad T400 with Windows7 32bit, everything with the default MS windows drivers and up-to-date regarding patches etc.

Regards

Christian

PS: I updated the "real" LeapFrog48 yesterday to 7.6 and tested it  - without any problems. Runs perfectly.

have attached the manual

http://www.culture-live.de/docs/anleitungen/manual/Eurolite%20TMH-11.pdf

Can anyone point me in the right direction ? 

cheers 

c 

I've just purchased a jester ML48 after using the Frog desks for a few years. A lovely desk!

I understand you can programme the AUX buttons - am i correct in saying these are the ones with the LCD display above?

Is it possible to set these up so I press one and it sets a DMX channel high to operate a smoke machine etc? Can I also then name them on the LCD display like you can the submasters on the Frog?

Many thanks in advance for your time.

Adrian

Just a few questions if anyone can help

1) I tried setting up a simple fixture for the LED strip, setting the start address of the DMX but this didnt work. I also tryed using the relay fixture, thinking this would switch the colours on and off but again this didnt work. It works fine assigning a fader for each.

2) When I set up a chase can I programme a default speed as it seems to keep the same slow chase setting. Can this be changed and programmed into the submaster chase?

3) When I did set the speed and had the chase programmed to a submaster, I then programmed the submaster into a memory in the show but when I recalled the memory it just stuck on the first chase (green in my case). Any ideas?

Sorry for all the questions and thank you in advance for the help.

Best Wishes

Adrian

I've got a Betapack 2 (wired 32A x 1) here, and it's being naughty... I hope you can help?

here are my observations so far:

• Powers up fine
• Desk supply LED is on
• O/P LED's all work
• Channel test buttons work (I've tested the outputs via these and a fresnel - nothing untoward here).
• DMX address set to 025 (correct for this install), also tried setting it to the same address as another dimmer to verify the behaviour. As expected, the fine dimmer was fine, the broken one was broken.
• Does not read the DMX...
• I've tried placing the unit as the first in the chain to no avail.
• Tried it being the only item in the chain, followed by a terminator...
• Checked my signal wiring - the signal chain is fine with the other dimmers (a mixture of Betapack 2 & 3's), and the selection of nodding buckets are all behaving too.
• Checked termination - all fine here too.
• there is one thing though: When I plug in the DMX, the error LED will flash once, maybe twice... And then go dark again? Hmm.

The only thing I haven't done yet is take it off of the wall and go hunting around for blown passive components on the control circuit. I've had a long browse of the manual, and can't find anything pertaining to this behaviour... Before I remove it from the wall, is there anything else I should investigate?


Thanks,

Mike.

Apologies if this has been covered before but I wan't to set a Lock Code for our Fat Frog. I have tried to change the code but it is asking for the old code. I have no idea what this is though. I think someone did set a code at one point but they no longer work with us and I can't get in contact with them.

Is there anyway I can reset the code? I can't afford to have someone lock the desk and not be able to get it unlocked again as its used daily.

Many Thanks

Jack

I have a LED moving head from MS Lighting. I have used the Fixture editor to make the file. But i can not get the color and dimmer part to function.

Is there a template files that is good to use to start with ?

Here is the link to the lamp..

http://www.mslighting.com.cn/ProductShow.asp?ID=538

And I have attached the user manual and my fixture file..

All help is more then welcome..

br Teis

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