ChamSys MagicQ - Page 5

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MagicQ User Manual 5 Version 1.4.9.0
4.8.1 Selecting Heads ................................................................................................................... 44
4.8.2 Selecting heads from the Group/Heads Window................................................................. 44
4.8.3 Recording a Group .............................................................................................................. 44
4.9 Naming a Group .......................................................................................................................... 44
4.10 Recalling a Group ........................................................................................................................ 45
4.11 Setting Levels for Dimmers ......................................................................................................... 45
4.12 Locating Heads ............................................................................................................................ 46
4.13 Modifying Attributes ................................................................................................................... 46
4.14 Recording a Palette ...................................................................................................................... 49
4.15 Adding in FX ............................................................................................................................... 49
4.16 Recording a Cue .......................................................................................................................... 49
4.17 Recording a Cue Stack (Chase or Theatre Stack) ........................................................................ 50
4.18 Selecting and recording complete window layouts ..................................................................... 51
4.19 Saving Your Show ....................................................................................................................... 51
4.20 Playing Back Your Show ............................................................................................................ 51
5 Patching ............................................................................................................................................... 52
5.1 Patching on the MagicQ .............................................................................................................. 52
5.2 Getting started with patching ....................................................................................................... 52
5.3 Testing channels .......................................................................................................................... 52
5.4 Patching a head or dimmer .......................................................................................................... 53
5.5 Head names and numbers ............................................................................................................ 54
5.5.1 Head Names......................................................................................................................... 54
5.5.2 Head Numbers ..................................................................................................................... 54
5.6 Gel name and number .................................................................................................................. 55
5.7 Generating auto groups ................................................................................................................ 55
5.8 Inverting and Swapping ............................................................................................................... 55
5.9 Minimum and maximum levels ................................................................................................... 55
5.9.1 Limits and Offset. ................................................................................................................ 55
5.10 Dimmer curves ............................................................................................................................ 56
5.11 Changing the DMX channels of dimmers and heads .................................................................. 56
5.12 Patching a head to multiple DMX addresses ............................................................................... 57
5.13 Unpatching a head from a DMX address .................................................................................... 57
5.14 Patching scrollers......................................................................................................................... 57
5.15 Editing Head personality ............................................................................................................. 58
5.16 Cloning (Adding extra heads / dimmers to a programmed show) ............................................... 58
5.16.1 Copy Head Programming .................................................................................................... 59
5.16.2 Patch Channel Copy ............................................................................................................ 59
5.17 Morphing heads (Changing fixture type) .................................................................................... 59
5.18 Importing heads ........................................................................................................................... 59
5.19 Exporting heads ........................................................................................................................... 60
5.20 VL5 type channels (split personalities) ....................................................................................... 60
5.21 Merging with DMX input ............................................................................................................ 60
5.22 Customising Locate values and Default values ........................................................................... 61
5.23 Theatre Patch syntax.................................................................................................................... 62
6 Setting Dimmer levels ......................................................................................................................... 63
6.1 Using the on screen faders ........................................................................................................... 63
6.2 Using the encoders ...................................................................................................................... 63
6.3 Using the keypad ......................................................................................................................... 64
6.3.1 Setting fade times from the keypad ..................................................................................... 64
6.4 Using Selected Heads .................................................................................................................. 65
6.5 Utilising gel colours in the Intensity Window ............................................................................. 65
6.5.1 Programming of Dimmers using gel colours ....................................................................... 66
6.6 Setting levels whilst running a show ........................................................................................... 66
6.7 Viewing Intensities in the Outputs Window ................................................................................ 67
7 Controlling intelligent heads ............................................................................................................... 68
7.1 Selecting Heads ........................................................................................................................... 68
7.2 Using Groups ............................................................................................................................... 68
7.2.1 Recording a Group .............................................................................................................. 69