hey my name is Nick i am from dtc New York and I'm here to tell you about all
the new fantastic things coming into your 2.4 EO 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 tool
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 any time 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 and set up but now i can change on a tab i tap 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 five 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 example if i set this current tab
as my default
any time 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 his
tab one or i can reset it all the way back to the EOS default and a quick note
about reference labels in particular you're about screen will display
whatever your default tab setting is four sho reference labels in addition to
the configuration tools that we've done in the live in 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 cue
number is
I can just move that up the list and it's going to show now
right next to my cue 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 Cuban so if I hide that
that's just gonna 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 q parts
so currently you'll notice that my q3 is displaying its parts as it normally
would if i go ahead and hide my
AQ parts you'll notice what you get is q3 collapsed with a superscript that
says for 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 bit
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 in 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 any
time you hit the like 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 we saw that I could show a notes area at the bottom of that display and
so you can see that my q1 notes exists there a quick way to see whether there's
a note on a queue 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 will
show me that my note says Fiona enters up stage left
I can also . 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 queue 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
set up 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 will
show up right next to my labels in addition the queue notes in 2.4 we are
also introducing seen breaks seen 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 seen
breaks without necessarily needing to know the queue numbers
so let's take a look at some of those tools to addison break
all i need to do is use my new attribute soft key under q what's aq 1 attributes
seen Act one
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 take you five attributes
seen end and that's going to give me a tag to show me that scene is complete
now that I have my scene 1 defined i'm going to go ahead and post my scene 2
q's six seven and eight are my transition so I want q 9 through 12 to
be my scene - so i can go ahead and say q 9 through 12 attributes scene seemed
too
and that
is going to give me my scene 2 with the top of queue nine but it's also going to
automatically give me an end of scene 4 q12 another thing that's useful is being
able to make changes just threw a seen without needing to know the last q
number so i'm gonna go ahead and go to q 9 and i am going to bring up 24 to full
i can now update that and you'll notice i have a soft key now that says seen end
and that's going to automatically find the end of that scene for me
I don't have to know that Q number but keep in mind that tracking rules still
apply
so if i don't depend q only two that that will track past q12 so there's also
some good go to q functions with scenes right now my cue list is sitting in q1
and if i want to go to the top of scene - I can say go to q and now use my scene
soft key and all the scenes that I have in my show will pop up and if i had seen
- it's going to go ahead and take me right to that q
there's one final area for scenes and that is direct selects so I'm going to
grab a bite 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 q number on the command line
either in blind or in live so by hitting scene 2
you'll notice that it takes my command line two q9 of coolest one
the other thing i can use these seen tiles for is to make the q that's
associated with that see in 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
q 1 / 1 and that's going to go ahead and load that independent for me and that's
the end of scene on scenes also coming in a 2.4 is a function called preview
mode
preview mode allows you to compare intensity levels of the queue that you
currently have on stage with either your pending queue your previous q 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 is a previous pending and in my life channel
display you'll notice that the intensity values of the pending queue will show up
so as I move through my ques the value below those channels will always
represent the q that's next on deck
I can also specify the cue number that i want to have in my preview area
i'm gonna go ahead and say preview q9 enter and now the values for q9 are
going to show up below my tombstones
additionally up in my display area you'll see that it says preview q 1 / 92
turn preview mode off simply hit preview enter
we've done a couple of quick things with shutters and 2.4 the first thing 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 him back on 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 and i'm going to pick a
training you'll notice that there's a tile down at the very bottom that is be
selected 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 that will open that show fun
I'll and bring it all that information another thing we have given a bit more
granularity to in 2.4 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 in the 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 a previous 22.4 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 is we can change the color of the button
so you'll notice my macro 807 is currently set to white
I can change that color to another one
so as soon as I apply that you notice that my macro eight of seven button
turns red
the other thing is that when we run a macro we link 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 macros 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 devices user name 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 in to that user will have that macro fired for them
there's some details on this to go ahead and check your literature and make sure
you get those set up right
the first thing that we want to look at in the new fader config tools is the
better config window
so using our a tab you can see on our controls area that there's a new fader
config display this is also access through tab 36 the other display that is
with better config is tab 35 which is the list view
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 a
hundred pages of 10 faders each and the top is also where you configure your
master fader pair
so really quickly on page one if I poke the top of the 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 acute list in
the sub just like I always have
I can map and intensity focused color or beam palette a preset or a grandmaster
like we have done before so i'm going to go ahead and pick you 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 map or just that one instance there's lots of information on
this to go ahead and check your supplement for more details
next to that is your size so you can either take up one two or three faders
with this one piece of content so for instance if I pop over to three 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 and 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 to 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 with the other two buttons do as well also in the fader
config you can pop open a dialogue that allows you to access the properties of
the content
so for example keyless 122 these are all of the individual properties that live
with that target
so for your submasters and your cue lists when you access anything through
this dialogue
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 the submaster just so we can see that we've
got sub 1 and as you can see I can pop open and edit those sub properties as
well like i mentioned before you can map intensity focused color and being
pallets 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 tool set
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 happen to 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 submaster a lot of these things will
look very familiar to you
mode Master HTTP exclusive and restore are all the same as they have 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 some masters
so this is where you set your up dwell in your down times your stop mode
determines what happens when this master is stomped and what we mean by stomped
is when all of the things that a target his own 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 automatically marks the non
intensity parameter stored in that sub you now have the ability to allow those
not intensity parameters to unmark as soon as the fader hit 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 a 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 someone will automatically put these
things on to the fader
so just like on my favorite 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 second and third fader slot doesn't automatically make this a to buy or a
three by fader instead when you go into your fader config and open it up to a
second or third fader
will expose those default settings for more information on all the new sub
tools that are in 2.4 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
QQ 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 HTTP and assert are the same as they have been in previous
versions of software and just like some masters now you have the ability to set
a priority a background enabled or disabled and a background priority
phantom is new and 2.4 and with phantom enabled when you hit go on a cue list
it will no longer change your selected q and it will no longer change and
unlocked playback status display the next to 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 q 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 q of that cue list or restores to the background state
similarly when you're going from your last q
just like before you would do nothing with your default setting
but you have the ability also to go to q 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 has stopped
also just like some masters in the coolest view
you're able to pick default fader and button mappings and the final edition -
2.4 is in your cue lists list view you have the number of cubes that are
included in each of those recorded lists
let's take a moment to talk about the master fader in a multi council
environment as you know the fader pages are global
so if I'm a piece of content like a sub to fade or two on page one anywhere
failure to on page one 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 the master fader
pair they can map that by simply saying q 1 / load like previously and then that
cue list will be synchronized with any other users that have coolest one loaded
if you don't want those cue list to be synced across multiple users you can
either unload the fader or use the discrete checkbox to prevent those from
synchronizing there's lots more information on this in 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 too . for 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 are
training videos or our fabulous support staff
I'm Nick see the next one