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MagicQ User Manual 232 Version 1.4.9.0
26 Controlling Media Servers with MagicQ
MagicQ is ideally suited to controlling media servers through its powerful Cue Engine and its large colour
touch screen. The eight encoder wheels enable quick and easy access to the large numbers of control
parameters.
MagicQ has extremely powerful support for media servers. It is possible to connect to up to 50 different
media servers or intelligent media yokes each with different media content. MagicQ downloads
thumbnail previews for the media content from each media server independently.
MagicQ supports a special window, solely for controlling media servers, the Media Window. This
window makes it much easier to control media servers. You can select media server, media layer,
attributes and media content all from the same window. You can also see what content is selected on each
of the layers of the selected media server. Open the Media Window by using the 5
th
Spare button – above
the Macro button.
In addition, there is a Live Preview window, which shows the output of the media server, or the output of
each of the layers. This is transferred is real time from the media server – so that you can see exactly what
the media server is playing. This is particularly useful in situations with many media servers, or media
servers that are remote from the control position.
26.1 Connect the Media Server over LAN
Connect the Media servers to the MagicQ via Ethernet and enable the required Art-Net universes outputs
on the MagicQ (Setup, View DMX I/O).
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