Hey everybody! I am Nick and we are here
to show you all the exciting new things
coming to you in 2.5.
The bulk of the work we have been doing has been to get
our new console the Gio @5 out and
shipping to you but we also have some
exciting new features coming, so let's check them out.
One of the changes
we've made to Eos 2.5 software is in
the {Direct Select} area. We've combined
the by 25 and the Direct Select classic
into a single tool with a lot more Flexability
One of the first things
you will notice when you open a Direct Select
tab is that you have the ability
to have multiple banks in the same tab.
For today I am going to go ahead and
select Color Palettes and Focus Palettes.
Just like in other areas of the desk
if i touch my gear tool i get some
context tools to allow me to adjust how
this display lays out. As you can see I
can talk to all of my banks to configure
them or i can talk to each one individually.
For today I'm just going to
grab one bank. In my layout area I have a
couple of quick layout tools so i can
quickly select 25, 50, 100 or 200 buttons.
Or i can go down below
that and select my rows and columns that appear.
In the controls button area I can
choose which side of the screen my
control buttons show up on. Either on
the right or on the left and just like
in the by 25 tools before you can see
that i have the ability to show or hide
buttons depending on what I want to use.
You will see a checkbox that says {Use
Millennial Buttons} and with that enabled
we get our Millennial and our Century
buttons that allow us to quickly jump to target ranges.
These tools were available
in Direct Select classics and now have been migrated over.
Going back into my
menu some of the other tools i have
available include {Increment} this allows
me to set my tiles to display in whole
numbers, tenths, or hundreths. With Flexi
enabled I can skip the empty Flexi
spaces that are usually left in the
Direct Select tiles, I can maximize the
button size to make them bigger, and of
course i can use my color swatch.
Just like other displays in the system I
can set this tab as a default so
that any time I open other Direct Select
tabs I don't have to reconfigure them.
Many of you have been requesting the
ability to layout Direct Select's with
any target you like, tile by tile,
side-by-side. Have we got a feature for you!
This is the Custom Direct Select Module.
To populate it, simply press and hold on
a tile and it will expose the ability to
lay out your target type as well as
start and end ranges. For this example
I'm going to go ahead and pick Color Palettes
and just type in {2} to {6}. and I hit {Ok}
and those populate right there for me.
If I want to put my groups right next to
that, I sure can!
I can also build content from the command line I am going to
go ahead and stay [Focus Palette] [1]
[Thru] [4] and just double-click on the
tile where I wanted to start and those
guys drop right in. To remove items from
your custom Direct Select bank simply
press the escape button and as you touch
individual targets they'll fall off.
If you want to clear a whole range press
and hold [Escape] and press and hold the
first target until your red X comes up
tap the end of the range and
everything in-between goes away.
Another new tool in your 2.5 arsenal is
graphical representations of shutter controls.
Let's quickly grab a channel
with some shutters in it and I'm going
to pop open my encoder display so as I
move my shutters and you can see that i
have a graphical representation of what
they do.
If I touch the graphic I can actually
pop open a tool that allows me to
manipulate those via the touchscreen and
I can close that back up and I have also got a
bunch of tools over to the right-hand
side that allowed me to pair shutters,
invert them, home, thrust an angle, and alike.
Also in 2.5 we added a tool called
channel level release and what that tool
does is it allows you to set a release
flag on a channel in a cue and once
that release flag is set it tells the
cue list to no longer be interested in
controlling that channel and allows it
to be released to its background state.
Let's look at how to set that flag
I'm going to go ahead into [Blind] and I've
set myself in Blind spreadsheets we can
see how this operates a little bit
better. if in Cue 4 I want to release
channel 3 back to its background state,
I can go ahead and say [Cue] [4] [Enter] and I'm
gonna go ahead and say channel 3 and
I have a soft key called {Release} and as
soon as I enable that you'll notice that
my channel levels go gray i get an R
flag for release and you'll also notice
that tracked forward release flags
follow all of the rules for tracking and blocking.
Also, if I hop over to my
Playback Status Display you will notice
that there is a new flag column R for
Release and you will see that in Cue 4 I have
certain channels that are being released
in that cue. For additional information
on the release flag
don't forget to read your supplement.
A new and exciting feature in 2.5 is
the creation of a temporary fader mapping.
What i can do is create from a list
of reference targets a quick little list
that i can play through. It is kind of
like a cue list and the sub all mixed
into one. I will show you how to create
it real quick and then we can show you
how to configure it. If I press and
hold the [Load] button on any empty fader
i can just touch on my Direct Selects a
couple of reference targets hit [Enter]
and as you will see I now have a little
list of those targets loaded to my fader
hitting [Play] will just pop
through those. If I want to configure some of
the elements of that temporary fader
list I can pop over to my {Fader Config}
and in opening up my properties
tab things that are of use my back from
first and go from last behavior so for
example I could wrap those each way.
I can also assign some timing to this so
my up time is the time that content
fades in as i'm going to the next step
and the downtime is the time that
content going away fades out
also if I put a dwell time on there I
can set a little bit of an auto follow
and create a little effect list.
If you want to see what's actually
populated in the list you can just touch
your target area and you will notice that
in your target list we can see all the
things that are loaded to play back in
that temporary fader list.
Continuing in our fader config area one of the new
additions we have is the ability to do
channel or parameter level filters on a
target. I am going to put a preset on this
fader and that will be my my wash preset
so that includes a ton of fixtures just
a whole bunch of colors and channel
locations so I'm going to get into my
properties dialog box and you will notice
two areas where i can add a channel
filter so that's gonna drop on the
command line and I can just say that I
want to include channels 1 through 54 to
be played back on that fader from preset
six.
Similarly, if I only want to control
certain categories or parameters that
are recorded into that preset I can
filter them down here for example just
my color. What filters really allow
me to do is to have one big bucket of
content and either parse it out across
multiple faders by channel ranges or by
intensity focused color beam so i don't
have to duplicate the same piece of
content to get different levels of
control across multiple faders.
One of the things that's a change in 2.5 is we
have changed the amount of granularity
you have in what you exclude a target
from so in previous versions of software
and exclude flag on a sub for example
would prevent that content from being
recorded so you might have your house
lights on an exclusive sub so that they
don't record into your cues. Now we
have the exclude from record which is
the same behavior but we also give you a
few more things that you can work with
the next one down is {Solo} and if you
are excluding from solo that prevents
this content from being knocked out when
a solo is on. A solo is a new button
state that you can enable on a fader and
that is just a temporary state that, much
like a sound console, when that button is
being held down all other contributing
content is suppressed and that guy is
left on. The other two things that you
can exclude a piece of content from
being affected by our Inhibitive subs
and the Grandmaster. Finally, in desk
settings in our {Displays} area you will
notice that we have garnered the return
of these {Show Reference Labels} button.
We were getting a lot of feedback that
there was not a global way to change your
show reference labels across all
displays so this will allow you to
globally set that and your tab level
overrides will temporarily override that
setting on a per tab basis. Enjoy it!
Thanks for taking the time to go through
the new 2.5 software with us! As always
there's a lot more documentation in your
supplement so be sure to read that, we
also have all the new Gio @ 5
documentation on our website so feel
free to check that out as well.
Until next time I am Nick from me and the
rest of the folks here in the studio
we will see you at the next one!