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MagicQ User Manual 7 Version 1.4.9.0
9.10 Using Palettes with times ............................................................................................................ 89
9.10.1 Using FAN........................................................................................................................... 90
9.11 Making Palettes into Cue Stacks ................................................................................................. 90
9.12 Selecting Palettes from the keypad .............................................................................................. 90
10 Programmer ..................................................................................................................................... 92
10.1 What is in the programmer? ........................................................................................................ 92
10.2 Clearing the programmer ............................................................................................................. 92
10.3 Activation by Channel or by Head? ............................................................................................ 93
10.4 Recording a Cue .......................................................................................................................... 93
10.4.1 Levels .................................................................................................................................. 94
10.4.2 Timing ................................................................................................................................. 94
10.4.3 FX ........................................................................................................................................ 94
10.5 Split Cue Times ........................................................................................................................... 94
10.5.1 View Simple ........................................................................................................................ 94
10.5.2 View Advanced ................................................................................................................... 95
10.6 Fade Type .................................................................................................................................... 95
10.7 Recording to a specific Cue Id .................................................................................................... 96
10.8 Record Options ............................................................................................................................ 96
10.8.1 Record Short cuts ................................................................................................................ 97
10.8.2 Masking ............................................................................................................................... 97
10.8.3 Options ................................................................................................................................ 97
10.9 Active .......................................................................................................................................... 98
10.10 Removing channels from the Programmer .............................................................................. 98
10.10.1 Removing channels using the REMOVE button ............................................................. 98
10.10.2 Removing channels using the Programmer Window ...................................................... 98
10.11 Copy between heads ................................................................................................................ 99
10.12 Blind programming ................................................................................................................. 99
10.13 Parking (freezing) channels ..................................................................................................... 99
11 Outputs Windows .......................................................................................................................... 101
11.1 Heads View ............................................................................................................................... 101
11.2 Intensity View ........................................................................................................................... 101
11.3 DMX channels view .................................................................................................................. 102
11.4 Movement view ......................................................................................................................... 102
11.5 Plan View .................................................................................................................................. 103
11.5.1 Creating rig plans .............................................................................................................. 103
11.5.2 Selection of heads in Outputs Plan View .......................................................................... 104
12 Editing Cues .................................................................................................................................. 105
12.1 Including Cues into the Programmer ......................................................................................... 105
12.1.1 Including Cues at a specified level .................................................................................... 105
12.1.2 Snapshot ............................................................................................................................ 105
12.2 Editing using Include and Update method ................................................................................ 106
12.3 Updating a Cue with the contents of the programmer (Record Merge). ................................... 106
12.4 Making changes to multiple Cues ............................................................................................. 106
12.4.1 Changes to multiple Cues using keypad ............................................................................ 106
12.4.2 Changes to multiple Cues using Cue Stack window ......................................................... 106
12.5 Editing using Update ................................................................................................................. 107
12.6 Direct Modification of Intensities on Cue ................................................................................. 107
13 Cue Stacks ..................................................................................................................................... 108
13.1 Cue Stack Window .................................................................................................................... 108
13.2 Chase timing .............................................................................................................................. 108
13.3 Cue Timing ................................................................................................................................ 109
13.3.1 Cue Timing Example ......................................................................................................... 109
13.3.2 The Halt field ..................................................................................................................... 110
13.3.3 Cue Delay and Fade times ................................................................................................. 110
13.4 Tracking ..................................................................................................................................... 110
13.4.1 Tracking on the MagicQ .................................................................................................... 111
13.4.2 Viewing Cue Data and Tracking Data ............................................................................... 112
13.4.3 Copying Cues in tracking mode ........................................................................................ 112