hey my name is Nick I am from etc' New
York and I am here to tell you about all
the new fantastic things coming into
your 2.40 software so why don't you head
on to the other side of the studio with
me we'll check some of the stuff out the
first thing that's new is the board
tells you what's new in the latest
version of software so there's a couple
of ways we can get to this I can say
about and in my about screen I get a
what's new button and that's going to
open up my manual tab the what's new
area is also connected to the help
system so for example if I hit help and
about I get my normal properties in my
help window but if I look all the way
down at the bottom
I now have articles that I can link
straight to and it gives me information
about that specific topic in the 2.4
release this help manual will represent
the things that are available in the
current supplements the next thing that
we've changed is we have moved where
some of the config jewelz show up in
your displays so for example
traditionally in your color picker in
your direct selects there has been a
little gear that shows up in the upper
left hand corner which allows you to
configure those displays as we add more
and more display configurations to the
desk we wanted to simplify the location
of those so anytime you touch on a gear
you'll now get a new menu which shows up
at the bottom which allows you to
configure that screen so this is a very
familiar direct select by 25 screen
config to that end we've added some
additional displays controls for some
other tabs that you already know and
love for example in my live table area I
can pop that open and now I get a couple
of different things that used to be
located in setup but now I can change on
a tab by tab basis one of the things I
can do is suppress my target status bar
which will give me a little bit more
room on tighter monitors I can show or
hide reference labels directly from the
screen I can also group channels by 5
high contrast and change which mode my
tiles will display in and now that you
have the ability to have multiple tabs
of the same type open with different
configurations we give you the ability
to set a default so for
ample if I set this current tab as my
default anytime I open another live
table tab it will take the properties of
this as its own and then I can modify
that on an individual basis as I make
those modifications I can reset that tab
to the default which is currently set as
tab 1 or I can reset it all the way back
to the EOS default and a quick note
about reference labels in particular
your about screen will display whatever
your default tab setting is for show
reference labels in addition to the
configuration tools that we've done in
the live and blind display we have done
a lot of work in 2.4 in the PSD display
so let's pop in and take a look at what
some of those tools look like the first
thing you'll notice on the right-hand
side is that we are giving you the
ability to suppress or show individual
columns or groupings and reorder them as
well so for example if I wanted to hide
all of my attributes or just a few of my
flags I could check those or uncheck
those if I wanted to put my label up
where my queue number is I can just move
that up the list and it's going to show
now right next to my queue number on the
left hand side there are some other
tools that help you modify this display
the first is display master playback
status so in the bottom area we show you
your cues that are playing forward and
the status of that through your cue
ribbon so if I hide that that's just
going to hide master playback status we
can also hide the main fader ribbon so
that can go away as well to give us a
little bit more space for our cues also
in the area is the ability to display or
suppress cue parts so currently you'll
notice that my cue 3 is displaying its
parts as it normally would if I go ahead
and hide my cue parts you'll notice what
you get is Q 3 collapsed with a
superscript that says 4 and that shows
me how many parts that Q has also in
this area I can display my notes at the
bottom of my screen which we'll talk
about in just a little
you'll also see here that I can change
my display PSD time countdown that was
also previously a setup option and now
you can decide whether that's on or off
on a tab by tab basis below that is a
check box that allows you to break the
link to live and blind tabs in previous
versions of software whenever you hit
live the live tab would come to the
surface but it would also pull the
playback status display to the surface
with this box checked now anytime you
hit the live button it will leave the
PSD hidden behind other tabs if you look
below that you'll notice that you have
the same default settings as your live
display and finally at the very top of
the left-hand side is your lock status
with this set to unlocked your cue list
display is going to follow your command
line if you select a cue list that will
lock that display exclusively to that
list and this replaces the functionality
of the padlock in the cue list display
of previous versions in the PSD display
config you saw that I could show a notes
area at the bottom of that display and
so you can see that my cue one notes
exists there a quick way to see whether
there's a note on a cue is if you look
in the label column you'll notice a
little plus mark which says I have notes
attached to me if I hover over that area
it'll show me that my note says Fiona
enters upstage left I can also point my
command line to that area and you'll
notice that my notes area at the bottom
of the display shows me that same note
just like in the about screen I can
change my font size and if I want to add
a note to a cue I can simply say q1
attributes which is a new soft key and
you'll notice that notes is under that
soft key and I can make my note for q1
be top of show and it's just as simple
as that
I have one more option for displaying my
notes I can go back into my PSD displays
setup and in my columns
I now have notes so I can add that to my
display maybe move it up right next to
my label and you'll see that those notes
show up right next to my labels in
addition to cue notes in 2.4 we are also
introducing scene breaks scene breaks
allow you to create a visual indication
in your cue list that there is a
different section of the show and there
are also some tools that allow you to
update and navigate in relation to scene
breaks without necessarily needing to
know the cue numbers so let's take a
look at some of those tools to add a
scene break all I need to do is use my
new attribute soft key under cue I'm
going to say q1 attributes scene act 1
one of the other things we can define is
where a scene ends so for example if my
q5 is the end of that scene can say q5
attributes scene end and that's going to
give me a tag to show me that that scene
is complete now that I have my scene 1
defined
I'm going to go ahead and post my scene
to Q 6 7 & 8 are my transition so I want
Q 9 through 12 to be my scene - so I can
go ahead and say cue 9 through 12
attributes scene scene 2 and that is
going to give me my scene 2 at the top
of q 9 but it's also going to
automatically give me an end of scene 4
Q 12 another thing that's useful is
being able to make changes just through
a scene without needing to know the last
cue number so I'm going to go ahead and
go to cue 9 and I am going to bring up
24 - full I can now update that and
you'll notice I have a soft key now that
says scene end and that's going to
automatically find the end of that scene
for me I don't have to know that cue
number but keep in mind that tracking
rules still apply so if I don't append Q
only to that that'll track past Q 12 so
there's also some good go to cue
functions with scenes right now my cue
list is sitting in Q 1 and if I want to
go to the top of scene 2 I can say go to
Q and now you
use my scene softkey and all the scenes
that I have in my show will pop up and
if I hit scene 2 it's going to go ahead
and take me right to that cue there's
one final area for scenes and that is
direct selects so I'm gonna grab a by 25
and show my scenes and you'll notice
that they show up in the tiles with the
cue list and cue number listed below
them I can use these tiles to get the
associated cue number onto the command
line either in blind or in live so by
hitting scene 2 you'll notice that it
takes my command line to q9 of cue list
1 the other thing I can use these scene
tiles for is to make the cue that's
associated with that scene pending on my
cue list so the way that I'm going to do
that is just press and hold my load
button for that cue list and I'm going
to go ahead and touch cue 1/1 and that's
going to go ahead and load that in
depending for me and that's the end of
scene on scenes also coming into 2.4 is
a function called preview mode preview
mode allows you to compare intensity
levels of the cue that you currently
have on stage with either your pending
queue your previous cue or a cue that
you specify so let's look at how to do
that on a blank command line you'll
notice that I now have a preview soft
key go ahead and say preview and I get
more soft keys that allow me to pick
either my previous or my pending queue
so I'm gonna say previous pending and in
my live channel display you'll notice
that the intensity values of the pending
queue will show up so as I move through
my queues the value below those channels
will always represent the queue that's
next on deck I can also specify the
queue number that I want to have in my
preview area I'm going to go ahead and
say preview q 9 enter and now the values
for q 9 are going to show up below my
tombstones
additionally up in my display area
you'll see that it says preview q 1/9 to
turn preview mode off simply hit preview
enter we've done a couple of quick
things with shutters in 2.4
the first that you'll notice is we have
frame angle and frame thrust as the
nomenclature for those parameters now so
that's a quick change the other thing is
in patch you can now change the order in
which your shutters frame so I'm going
to grab my channel 111 and in my
attributes area you'll notice there's a
new shutter order tile as soon as I
touch that I get a graphic that allows
me to rotate the orientation of my
shutters based on how the fixtures hung
invert the order change them back and as
soon as I hit apply that's going to go
ahead and change how those are
controlled for a long time we have
stored the state of the park buffer in
the show file when you do a save and we
now give you the ability to load that
park buffer when you're opening a show
file so if I come into my displays and
say file open I'm going to pick a
training you'll notice that there's a
tile down at the very bottom that is
deselected by default but as soon as I
click it it will load my park buffer
upon opening the show file so things
like power channels for moving lights
can be recalled when you're pulling in a
new file there is a confirm box that you
have to check in order to make sure that
that turns on and you hit OK and then
that will open that show file and bring
in all that information another thing
we've given a bit more granularity to in
two-point-four is the ability to have
separate release and off times in your
setup for manual control so I'm going to
go ahead and pop into setup and I want
to go into my desk settings and my
manual control and you'll notice in my
default times area there is my cert time
which is previous to 2.4 what off time
and release time we're using but now you
can see that there is a separate off
time and release time so as I use those
functions with my faders I can give them
discrete times there are also a couple
of additions in the macro editor you'll
notice there's a few additional columns
the first two is we can change the color
of the button so you'll notice my macro
8:07 is currently set to white I can
change that color
to another one so as soon as I apply
that you'll notice that my macro 807
button turns red the other thing is that
when we run a macro we blink the button
while that macro is running so you have
some indication that something is still
happening so if I go back into my macro
editor and I say blink disabled now when
I run that macro it just stays solidly
lit as the macro is running back in the
macro editor I also now have the ability
to send a macro to a specific device on
my network so I just type in that device
is username and it will fire that macro
locally on that device I also have the
ability now to fire macros on a user on
the network so anybody logged into that
user will have that macro fired for them
there's some details on this so go ahead
and check your literature and make sure
you get those setup right the first
thing that we want to look at in the new
fader config tools is the fader config
window so using our add a tab you can
see on our controls area that there's a
new fader config display this is also
accessed through tab 36 the other
display that is with fader config is tab
35 which is the ListView so this allows
you to see all of the faders in a
ListView much like all the others in the
desk and change mappings through a range
or individually so we're going to pop
that open and you'll notice a new
graphical layout for how the faders get
mapped the very top you'll notice a
fader page there are now 100 pages of 10
faders each and the top is also where
you configure your master fader pair so
really quickly on page 1 if I poke the
top of a fader you'll notice that I'll
get a little dialog box that pops up and
the first thing that I can choose is my
target on the new fader config I have
the ability to map a cue list in a sub
just like I always have I can map an
intensity focus color or beam palette a
preset or a grand master like we have
done before so I'm going to go ahead and
pick hue list and then in my ID field I
can either type the cue list number that
I want to appear there
or with my radio buttons on the side I
actually get a list of all of the
content that currently exists so I can
very quickly pop my ID in there below
that is whether or not this is a
discrete instance and that will
determine whether or not the changes
that you make affect all of the faders
with this cue list mapped or just that
one instance there's lots of information
on this so go ahead and check your
supplement for more details next to that
is your size so you can either take up 1
2 or 3 faders with this one piece of
content so for instance if I pop over to
3 you'll notice now that this one piece
of content is going to take up all three
of those faders and all six buttons and
then finally the button and slider
configuration button allows you to
select whether you're going to use the
default mapping of that content which
we'll look at in some list views in a
moment or if you're going to have local
mapping which will only change on this
instance of this cue list so now that
we've got some content mapped we can do
a couple of things with the faders in
the buttons if I touch on my master I
can actually change what each of these
individual faders does so for example I
can have a rate master a Down fade or
even just disable that fader you can
also customize what your buttons do so
for example if I want that to still be
my back button and that to be my Go
button that's all great any of these
buttons can be configured so you have a
lot of flexibility and how you lay out
what this content does keep in mind that
the upper left hand most button will
always be used as your load button so on
a single fader you only have one load
button on your top row but as you spread
those out you can change what the other
two buttons do as well also in the fader
config you can pop open a dialog that
allows you to access the properties of
the content so for example khulus 122
these are all of the individual
properties that live with that target so
for your sub masters and your cue lists
when you access anything through this
dialog you're actually changing the
properties of the content not the fader
and for a little bit more fun I'm going
to just go ahead and map a sub master
just so we can see that so we've got sub
one
and as you can see I can pop open and
edit those sub properties as well like I
mentioned before you can map intensity
focus color and beam palettes as well as
presets so when I map any of these
contents I can still have that on the
fader however when I access this area
these are going to be tools that reside
exclusively with the fader and not with
the content so you can see there's a lot
of really cool tools in here but there's
also a lot going on so don't forget to
read your supplement before diving
headfirst into this toolset let's look
at some of these sub properties that
were added in 2.4 as we saw in the fader
config so I'm just going to hop into my
subs list you'll notice that your CIA
pops up with a whole bunch of options
you have your default fader config which
we'll get to in a second and then you
have all the different settings for your
individual sub master a lot of these
things will look very familiar to you
mode master HTP exclusive and restore
are all the same as they've been in
previous versions of software we have
made some changes to priorities though
so if you pop up in the dialog box
you'll notice that there are 10 levels
of priority that you can choose from as
well as shielded below that is
background so like in previous versions
this will allow you to determine if this
target is available as a background
state and then we've also added
background priority so you have the
ability to select what priority that
background state has in relation to
other targets that may be in the
background just like before you have
timing that you can put on sub masters
so this is where you set your up dwell
and your down times your stomp mode
determines what happens when this master
is stomped and what we mean by stomped
is when all of the things that a target
has owned have been pulled away by other
targets this allows you to determine
what happens to the target when it's no
longer contributing to the output of the
desk and then finally on market 0 with
an intensity master as you move your
fader up it autumn
medically marks the non-intensity
parameters stored in that sub you now
have the ability to allow those
non-intensity parameters to unmark
as soon as the fader hits zero rather
than using the bump button so just like
all of our list views range editing is
supported with this dialog box so for
example if I say sub 1 through 5 and I
change them to LTP that's going to go
ahead and change all of those targets to
latest takes precedent so let's talk
about the fader area this area allows me
to set the default button and slider
properties so whenever I map sub 1 it
will automatically put these things on
to the fader so just like on my fader
config I can select what these buttons
do and once I'm happy with my config
anytime I map sub 1 the fader and button
properties will be used so it's good to
know that mapping additional faders and
buttons on the 2nd and 3rd fader slot
doesn't automatically make this a 2 by
or a 3 by fader instead when you go into
your fader config and open it up to a
second or a third fader will expose
those default settings for more
information on all the new sub tools
that are in two-point-four don't forget
to read your supplement let's take a
look at the changes to our cue list
index so I'm just going to hit cue cue
and you'll notice a similar display
comes up in the CIA as our sub list and
this is going to allow us to edit all
the properties of each of those cue
lists your master HTP and assert are the
same as they have been in previous
versions of software and just like
submasters now you have the ability to
set a priority a background enabled or
disabled and a background priority
phantom is new in 2.4 and with phantom
enabled when you hit go on a cue list it
will no longer change your selected cue
and it will no longer change an unlocked
playback status display the next two
settings determine what happens when
you're at the top or the bottom of the
cue list the defaults are the same as
they've been in previous versions of
software so when you hit the back button
from your first cue by
default you're going to go to Q out but
you now have the ability to pick whether
the console does nothing wraps back to
the last cue of that cue list or
restores to the background state
similarly when you're going from your
last cue just like before you would do
nothing with your default setting but
you have the ability also to go to cue
out wrap it or restore it to a
background state and just like
submasters you have a stop mode setting
and that allows you to determine the
behavior when a cue list is stomped also
just like submasters in the cue list
view you're able to pick default fader
and button mappings and the final
addition to 2.4 is in your cue list list
view you have the number of cues that
are included in each of those recorded
lists let's take a moment to talk about
the master fader in a multi console
environment as you know the fader pages
are global so if I map a piece of
content like a sub to fate or to on page
one anywhere fader 2 on page 1 appears
in a multi console system that sub will
also appear but we give special
instances for the ability to map a cue
list to your master fader in different
users on the system the important thing
to remember in 2.4 is that when a new
user joins a multi console system they
won't automatically have a cue list map
to their master fader pair they can map
that by simply saying cue 1 / load like
previously and then that cue list will
be synchronized with any other users
that have cue list 1 loaded if you don't
want those cue lists to be synced across
multiple users you can either unload the
fader or use the discrete check box to
prevent those from synchronizing there's
lots more information on this and the
documentation so be sure to read up on
it before you get into production wow
that equipment moves fast across the
studio thanks for checking out 2.4 with
us there are a lot of really great
features that are in the desk so be sure
to read your supplement which is
conveniently inside your console now and
if you have any questions don't forget
to check out our forums our training
videos or our fabulous support staff I'm
Nick
see it the next one