Edward Z88

Hi Rob, I’m not sure off the top of my head, will have to check when I’m next in the office. Unfortunately we haven’t had many requests for these, so other enhancements have taken priority. The best way of achieving this behaviour currently, is to manually program colour, beam and position information in dark, to manually prep them. Therefore if you need a fixture to have timings different to the Move On Dark timing of the playback, record a cue with manual colour, beam and position information in with the fixture dark. To do this you will need to disable SmartTag in the Record Options window, to allow you to store a fixture with 0% intensity. You can then define your own custom fade times for the cue. You can also do this for the cue with the “Next” command in it. In this cue, prep your fixtures manually for the cue you’re jumping to - again with SmartTag disabled to store the colour, beam and position values with the fixture at 0%. Hope this helps, if you have any questions let me know. Edward

Hi Rob, As far as the console is concerned, it will be treating the CTO parameter just like any other, and it will be using the colour fade time at the same rate as the other colour parameters. As Kevin suggests, you may be seeing the CTO parameter fade from cooler colours into the warmer colours, and therefore go via blues. The very basic description of how CTO typically works, is depending on the level of the CTO parameter, the fixture will essentially add a “max level” in for the RGBW parameters, and as the CTO is raised, the blue chips will be lowered, hence warming the colour temperature. This allows you to therefore mix a colour using the colour picker, and then warm it up by increasing the CTO. If you are getting some odd colour fades through doing this, I’d recommend programming second cue after the RGBW fade, and then change the CTO. This could automatically follow afterwards, and have its own custom fades to get the colour path you need. Hope this helps, Edward

Hi Claire, If you can only see a single show on the USB stick, then unfortunately “Show 2” hasn’t saved properly. If you go to <Load Show> on the Jester, what shows can you see on the USB stick? Edward

Hi Wolfgang, A quick way to do this for a single lighting state on a playback, is to change the button function to be a Go. To do this, press and hold SETUP, and tap the playback’s button. The bottom row options allows you to customise the button function, where you can choose Go fade or Go snap. Go fade will use the cue fades, Go snap will ignore them. Click OK, and now the button under the fade will get the fixtures in their colours, beams and positions, allowing you to simply raise intensity over the top using the fader. Hope this helps, Edward

Hi Mil, Yes, there are two ways of doing this. The simplest way, is holding SETUP, and tapping the playback’s button. This will open the playback settings, when you can enable Effect under fader controls. As well as controlling intensity with the fader, it will also control the effect speed and size. The other option, is to use Speed Override. Speed override can be found on the second encoder wheels when you press Z/Shift. This allows you slow down or speed up any active effects in the currently viewed playback. To change which playback you are viewing, press and hold VIEW, and tap the playback you wish to view. Hope this helps, Edward

Bonjour, C'est parce que la couleur par défaut mélange LTP. S'il vous plaît voir le guide ci-dessous, sur la façon de mélanger les couleurs sur les faders ... http://support.zero88.com/1014413041 J'espère que cela aide, Edward Hello, This is because colour by default mixes LTP. Please see the guide below, on how to colour mix on faders... http://support.zero88.com/1014413041 Hope this helps, Edward

Hi Claire, To reset the patch to 1:1, go into the <DMX Patch> menu in Super User, and press and hold CLEAR for a second. For more information on patching, see page 30 of the manual here... https://zero88.com/storage/downloads/7d3249f0-bde3-471d-8830-d4253ff0dc06/Jester-Manual-3.4.pdf Hope this helps. Edward

Hi Kevin, Yes you can, however to do this you would need to choose "Keys" rather than "Commands", and you would need to use an external keyboard. So: RECORD MACRO x ENTER -> Keys -> 1 THRU @ . RECORD NAME DBO ENTER MACRO Edward

Hi Kevin, Yes, 1 THRU, and not defining an end value, will select fixture 1 through to the last. So rather than "ENTER ENTER @ .", "1 THRU @ . ", giving all fixtures a 0 value that cannot be tracked into. Don't forget we say SmartTag ignores fixtures at 0% intensity, but if there is a 0% value in the programmer, this does get stored, just nothing else about the fixture will. For this example, type: RECORD MACRO x ENTER -> Commands -> 1 THRU @ . RECORD ENTER MACRO. You can then either type MACRO x ENTER, or simply tap it on screen to program your blackout. Taking this a step further, you could type MACRO x RECORD, and tap a UDK. A single tap of this UDK records your blackout cue. Hope this helps, Edward

Rather than snapshotting blackouts, use the syntax 1 THRU @ . RECORD ENTER. To store a block blackout, allowing move on dark to still work. This is one of those syntax strings you could record as a macro if you wish, so you simply press your macro and it records the cue. Edward

Hi Peter, No problem, if you have any questions let me know. Edward

Hi Rob, Good question. When it comes to computing, "program" is preferred!... https://www.grammarly.com/blog/program-programme/ If you have programmed all your cues, and then want to add in movers, this is where tracking may come in very useful. If you want to add a fixture in, and only add it into the current cue, you will need to update cue only. If you would like to add your movers into multiple cues, for example, a gobo wash over the top of several other lighting states for the duration of the scene, do a track forwards update, to add the new light in. This update will then track through subsequent cues, until that light has new information from a cue further down the stack. Therefore if you recorded a blackout which didn't have information for the light, you will need to go into the blackout, and update this cue too, to take the light back out. Obviously updating 2 cues is much easier than updating 10 that all needed your mover added in, when you could have simply done a tracking update. The Cue Only option shouldn't affect move on dark behaviour. This is where SmartTag comes in. With SmartTag enabled, it will not store information for fixtures at 0%. This therefore allows their parameters to be prepped, ready for a future cue when they're next used. I'd recommend taking a look at our "Simplifying Jargon" series of videos i you haven't already. One of these is on tracking, and another is on cue only, which hopefully will clear things up... https://zero88.com/jargon If you have any questions as always let us know. Edward

Hi Shane, Thanks, we’ll take a look into this. Thanks for letting me know. Yes if an attribute is enabled under fader controls, this attribute’s cue fade times will be ignored. Edward

Hi Peter, Thank you for your detailed post. It sounds like you’re almost there. These are exactly the steps needed. Remember, the reason pressing CLEAR is important, is because it allows you to remove your manual information from the channel faders. If you don’t press CLEAR, the channel faders will still be controlling those fixtures, not the playbacks, as values from the channel faders, displayed in red in the output window, have the highest priority on the console. For more information on the colours see you see in the Output Window, see below... http://support.zero88.com/1011707591 The default options in the Record Options are SmartTag and Cue Onlt enabled, indicated with a red stripe. For more information, see below... http://support.zero88.com/1014189311 When you have programmed your lighting state, using the channel faders, there are simply three things you’ll need to do to use your playbacks. These steps are: - Lower your faders - Press Clear twice (if no fixtures are selected, simply press it once), and the clear button will turn off - Tap fader function to toggle to playbacks You can then push up your playbacks, and you’ll see your intensity fade in with the raise of the fader, and colour/positions will fade in. To adjust these fades, press and hold VIEW and press the playback’s button, to view the cue stored on the playback. Correct, to edit a lighting state, push the playback up, toggle to channels, and tweak the lighting levels and other attributes. When happy, tap UPDATE, and then the flashing playback button you wish to update. Doing this automatically takes all the values you have manually adjusted using the channel faders, and puts them into the cue, you’ll therefore notice the clear button turns off automatically. That’s correct - by default the console will store the whole current lighting state when you press RECORD. When you are then mixing playbacks, you will see that intensity mixes using Highest Takes Precedence (HTP) between playbacks, and colours, beams and positions will mix Latest Takes Precedence (LTP). HTP being whichever playback has the highest level for a fixture takes control of that fixture, and LTP being whichever playback has been raised most recently controls the fixture. If you’re able to, I’d recommend looking at attending a FLX training session, where we spend time going through this on a real console with a virtual rig of lights connected. For a list of our free FLX training dates and locations, see below... https://zero88.com/training#eventdates Hope this helps, if you have any questions let me know. Edward

Hello, Welcome to the Zero 88 Forum. To trigger a chase on a playback from a cue, click the Settings button of the cue you wish your chase to start in. The Settings button is found at the end of a cue's row. From the Settings, click Macros..., and then choose Trigger Cue Stack. You can then press the flashing button of your chase on the console, or press the chase on the touchscreen. Then OK the Macros window, and OK the Cue Settings window. Now when you go into the cue, the chase will fade in using the cue's fade times. You will then need to go into the settings of the cue you wish the chase to stop in, but this time choose Release Cue Stacks. For more information, see page 50 of the FLX range manual. Hope this helps, if you have any questions let me know. Edward

Hi Mil, Welcome to the Zero 88 Forum. As you have found, most effects have an auto offset. If you want to quickly change this, you can use the quick offset options along the top of the effects window. If you want to customise the offset, you can use the Offset encoder wheel. If you simply dial the Offset wheel, in the same way when you dial speed you give that speed value to all selected fixtures, you give the displayed offset value to all selected fixtures. As a result, each fixture is not offset from one another. As Kevin mentions above, if you hold SHIFT and dial the Offset encoder, you fan the offset values across the selected fixtures, in the order of selection. There are 4 fan behaviours to choose from, which can be configured by holding SETUP, and tapping the Effect tab. You can then hold Z/SHIFT, and choose the Fan behaviour you would like when the Shift key is held. Hope this helps, if you have any questions let us know. Edward

Hi Thierry, Thanks for confirming. As you may be aware, the cause of the issue is the number of LCD displays that are updated when playback pages are changed on LeapFrog 96/SolutionXL consoles. We are looking into a fix for this. If you have any questions let us know. Edward

Hi Thierry, We have had another report of this on a LeapFrog 96, and are looking into the issue. Remind me, is this Solution or SolutionXL you are seeing this issue on? Edward

Hi Shane, As Kevin says, either attaching your show file to this thread, or emailing it to us at support@zero88.com is the best way of us seeing what is going on. If you tap Z/Shift, the second encoder wheel displays Speed Override. If you tap the middle button of this encoder, this will disable speed override. Are you finding it is just the parameter fade times that aren't working, or are intensity fades not working either? If you have any questions let us know. Edward

Hi Daniel, If this happens and you don't want the cues stored on the playback you wish to turn into a Grand Master, tap DELETE, and then the playback button. You can then hold SETUP and tap it, and choose Grand Master. Edward

Hi Dominique, Welcome to the Zero 88 Forum. Really glad to hear you are enjoying your FLX S24. Any playback on the FLX S24 can be viewed in the cue list window. To view a playback, press and hold VIEW, and tap the playback button you wish to use. Doing this will not change the button function of any playbacks, simply display the cues stored on that playback in the Cue List window. You can see which cue you are in on the MFF Playbacks, by viewing the Faders window. Every Playback will display a "C" and "N", for Current Cue and Next Cue. Hope this helps, Edward

Hi Neil, If you plug a USB keyboard into FLX S, you can use the ">" key for Thru. This allows you to type COPY, type 1>45 in the "From" field, and in the "To" field type the first cue you wish this range to be pasted to. Hope this helps, Edward

Hi Zeus, The article Kevin links to is still correct as per ZerOS 7.9.7 - some of the screen shots just may look slightly different to what you're seeing. Under SETUP -> Settings -> Record & Update -> Tracking Options, ensure this is enabled. Then exit Setup, and press and hold RECORD. This will open the Record Options window on the internal touchscreen. If you wish to use the Selected Fixtures record option, you will need to ensure SmartTag is disabled, indicated with a blue button stripe. If you are programming cue stacks, ensure the tracking options are set to your required behaviour. Hope this helps, if you have any questions let us know. Edward @kgallen Thanks for your help with this.

Hi Mark, In ZerOS 7.9.7, the INSERT button isn’t used, and so instead can be configured to be a Park/Unpark function. To do this, hold SETUP and press the INSERT button. You can then set the Normal function to be Park, and the Shifted function to be Unpark. You can then select a fixture, and press the INSERT button, and it will be parked. You can then hold SHIFT and press INSERT, and selected fixtures will be unparked. For more information see below... http://support.zero88.com/1011403601 Hope this helps, Edward

Hi Terry, Thanks very much, I have replied to your email. Edward