Couple of diverse questions...

[drscoop]

Hi Zero88 team,

7.10 has landed ideally for us ahead of a show next week.  As we start to get used to the new features, I'm wondering if a multi-cell fixture can easily be converted from a non-linear to a linear fixture?  We've just had delivery of our new tri-colour star cloth (Prolight LEDJ Starcloth controller, in 28ch mode), which runs as 8 channels, each of a dozen or so RGB LEDs. This seems to behave as a non-linear fixture, but it feels like it'd be easier to work with as a linear fixture, for applying fans, effects etc.  I have set up 8 sub-groups in the interim, one for each RGB cell/pixel group, and can fan effects and colours over these by selecting all eight groups vs the whole fixture, but running it as linear would feel a lot more elegant...

Unrelated, and I may be missing the obvious here, but is there a way to capture intensity palettes? For example, I have a group of LED fresnels, and want to set up a groups of intensities to highlight, say, stage left, stage right, a small area out front or the whole stage, with different balanced intensities.  I can grab the fixtures, record the specific zoom settings for each state, drop over a colour, but every time I want the same look, I have to set the intensities again and again.  It feels like there should be an easy solution so I can tweak a master set of intensities during tech, as I can with beam spreads or hues, and update the whole show...  Am I missing something obvious?  If I record the intensities as a scene, sample that into a cue in a mater playlist, updating that scene later does not get reflected back to the playlist, right?

Thanks in advance!

[kgallen]

Intensity palette - uses groups. You’ll have to check the manual but I think you just record your group with intensities set then double tap the group palette to recall. 

[drscoop]

Marvellous, thank you - I did not know that worked in that way. I've only recorded groups with 100% intensity before....

[kgallen]

9 hours ago, drscoop said:

Marvellous, thank you - I did not know that worked in that way. I've only recorded groups with 100% intensity before....

Me too! (Hence the manual!) 😆

[Edward Z88]

Hi @drscoop

13 hours ago, drscoop said:

This seems to behave as a non-linear fixture, but it feels like it'd be easier to work with as a linear fixture, for applying fans, effects etc.  I have set up 8 sub-groups in the interim, one for each RGB cell/pixel group, and can fan effects and colours over these by selecting all eight groups vs the whole fixture, but running it as linear would feel a lot more elegant...

ZerOS knows the orientation of a fixture’s cells. If a fixture’s cells are linear, the channel fader will select all cells. If the fixture’s cells are non-linear, the fader will treat the fixture as a standard fixture, and select the whole fixture. 

If you need to select all cells of this fixture, bring up the channel fader, tap Z/Shift, and type “. Enter” on the number pad. The fixture is broken into cells, that can then be fanned across.

For applications where you are regularly needing to be very specific about what cells you need, this is where life is much easier on the standard FLX console.

13 hours ago, drscoop said:

Unrelated, and I may be missing the obvious here, but is there a way to capture intensity palettes?

As usual, @kgallen is right - on ZerOS, groups and intensity palettes are the same thing. At the point of recording a group, selection AND intensities are always recorded. At the point of recalling the group, tapping just selects, and double tapping recalls intensities. 

Cues recorded using an intensity group, will reference the intensity group. Therefore if you double tap a group, tweak the levels, tap UPDATE and tap the group, any cues that used that group will use the new values.

For more information, please see the links below…
https://zero88.com/manuals/zeros/groups/recording-groups

https://zero88.com/manuals/zeros/groups/using-groups-via-touch

 

Hope this helps,

Edward

[drscoop]

3 hours ago, Edward Z88 said:

 

If you need to select all cells of this fixture, bring up the channel fader, tap Z/Shift, and type “. Enter” on the number pad. The fixture is broken into cells, that can then be fanned across.

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Hope this helps,

Edward

Hugely helpful as always, Edward. The Z / . / Enter does exactly what I needed, thank you!