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MagicQ User Manual 90 Version 1.4.9.0
To fan delays, rather than fade times, type delay / fade – e.g. for 1 second fade but delayed from 0 to 3
seconds type 0 THRU 3 / 1 before selecting the palette.
A short-cut can be used to perform fanned delay/fades – type a time followed by * before selecting the
Palette to fan the fade across the currently selected heads.
Applying Palettes with times and fanned times can be applied to all Palette types including Beam and
Colour. For example to perform a gradual fade from one colour to the next over all your colour mixing
heads, select the heads, 0 THRU 5 before selecting a colour palette entry.
You can modify the order that a fan is applied to heads by selecting the heads in the appropriate order - at
any time you can invert the order using the Selection soft button in the Group Window.
Whenever a Palette is selected with a time the times are stored in the programmer. This makes it very
easy to build up Cues with times. Simply select the Palettes you want with the required times and Record
the Cue. The Cue will playback with the required times.
9.10.1 Using FAN
You can set both delay and fade times in FAN mode by entering delay / fade. For example to move all
your heads onto a position in turn, type 2 / 2 before selecting the position.
Minimum fade times can be applied using the + operator, for example to perform a fade of between 2 and
6 seconds to a new position on a group of heads enter FAN mode, type 2+4 and select the new position.
The first head will fade over 2 seconds whilst the last will fade over 6 seconds.
To use both minimum delay and fade times type, for example, 2+4/3+5. This gives delay times of
between 2 and 6, and fade times of between 3 and 8 seconds.
9.11 Making Palettes into Cue Stacks
You can copy one or more palettes from the Position, Colour or Beam windows to a Playback (use SHIFT
+ cursor keys to select multiple items). This enables quick generation of Cue Stacks based on your
palettes.
The Cue Stack will include one Cue for every Palette selected. The Cues will contain values from the
Palette for the currently selected heads. Other attributes can be added using Record Merge.
If a Cue Stack already exists on the Playback, then the extra Cues are appended to the end of the Cue
Stack.
Copying a Group to a Playback makes a Cue with Intensity at 100% for all the channels in the Group.
Selecting multiple groups using the cursor (SHIFT + cursor keys) and then copying to a Playback creates a
multi step Cue Stack of intensities – one Cue step for each group. This is an easy way to create, for
example an intensity chase of your different moving light groups or your different par can colour groups.
9.12 Selecting Palettes from the keypad
You can select palettes from the keypad. Set the Setup Option, “Select channels in Beam, Col, Pos” to yes
(default in theatre mode). To select a palette use:
COL 5 ENTER
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