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Your Questions for the Live Stream Tomorrow (Patreon)

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2020-03-20 23:54:17
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Hey everyone,

Tomorrow I'm planning on streaming for a long time, and I would love it if you could comment on here with some specific questions you might be interested in. I have a pretty solid agenda, but I'd like to take some breaks and do Q&A during the stream and I'd love to prioritize your questions if you have any that you think would benefit everyone.

Will be going for quite a while tomorrow:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ATtXge_8U8

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Navery

What operators should take priority when learning TouchDesigner's fundamentals?

Jonathan

What is the best way to learn how tracking work? I have try lot of ways to learn/understading it, but i still get lost every time 😅

Scott Schirmer

how to get the best render quality in MA3D with a limited spec machine?

Brian McCourt

Heya! Got a couple I’ve been thinking about lately:

Hanz Brech
>>33960552

It's really easy just think everything u store in a cue will get take over to the next one until u will release (manually) it or over store the same type of attributes in the next one

Francesco Cruciani

Hi Christian, how can I customize the IP address of my session? ex: 2.0.0.1 Why in the effects setting there is the key to activate "shuffle selection on" but there is no key to deactivate it? how to disable it?

Navery

Which lights/fixtures/hardware do you recommend purchasing rather than just renting?

Brian McCourt
>>33960749

1) What sort of elements does one need to consider when designing or programming a timecoded show? In other words, are there basic principles used when designing lighting looks or is it simply a matter of taste?

Brian McCourt
>>33960749

2) Probably a simpler question, but I’ve been trying to design selective executor of sorts. For example, if I have a series of Vipers, being able to select any number of them, and have one row of color presets in the ExecButtons that will change the color of only the lights currently selected. It’s easy enough to do on the programming side (obviously) but it seems wrong to try that in a live application, so having this ability in the executors would be preferred. The color picker sort of allows for this but that requires programming on the front end that is not usually afforded to small corporate shows. Question is: Is creating a selectable effect in the executor possible? Or is there something I’m not considering here?

Jacob Roeber

Hey man, Ive always been interested in the workflow around using multiple timecode shows to create one smooth show. I know each track in showkontrol gets its own unique timecode range, but how does one go from one timecode show to another in ma2 smoothly? Also how does the artist changing the lineup affect this? Thanks in advance!!

Sander ten Brinke

Hi Christian, how would you write a macro that would make every loaded cue go (but only execs with loaded cues)? Right now I have a "load" macro that first selects the executor, as the selected executor is stored in a variable, and add this to another variable. I then have a "go" macro that executes all the loaded execs and then resets the variable that contained all the executors with loaded cues again. It works fine, but I was wondering how you would implement a similar macro, and if it can be done without selecting an executor as you might want to have a specific executor continuously selected during a show. Cheers😁😊

Andrew Kelch

Do you have a system for producing colors with all fixture types to be most accurate for different camera's color spaces? I'm sure this would depend on the event as well.

Luca Sorace

Can you talk about what steps you do to get a fully working showfile with all the timecodes' cues being ok with just one hour of preprogramming before the show? 😂 Also, can you explain your current cloning setup?

Andy Haas

1. Cue/Effects/Macros etc. Naming Schemes. How or what are good practices? 2. Building Effects best practices 2. A. how do you build an effect that moves the movers wave effect? So if you have a line of movers, the first mover moves then the second then the third and so forth so that it moves in a wave. 3. When inheriting an environment (my case a Church setup) what are some good clean up processes to do? 4. I kinda know how to do this but how can you see what DMX Channels are being used?

Loagn Torres

Do a basic rundown of your most used macros & how you make your “Start Show Macro” & how the whole show fires without having to select a song every time. BTW you inspired me to program on the MA2

Christian Lewis
>>33960820

I don't believe it "activates".. Every time you hit the "shuffle selection" button it just shuffles the current selection once.

Christian Lewis

I have a group of 12 fixtures I'm trying to make an effect to store to a temp button. I want 3 random lights to fire off every time I hit the exec. So I did a Random form (in this case dimmmer) effect with groups of 4 at a width of 1/12 x 100 or 8.33 set as a 1 shot. It should work and does most of the time but on a lot of hits I get no Dim which I assume means it's firing on the low value part of the form. Shouldn't setting the width to a small percent mean it will always fire the high value when I use the effect provided it's a form like pwm? Hope that makes sense. Maybe I am not understanding the width part exactly..

marios kyriakou

Hello Christian , I would love to know ways of combining show-control from TC on grandma. If you had any time to play with it , is there any way of sending BPM values either as midi or any other way to the desk? When having 3-4 BPM masters it starts to bang me in the head.. (yes i already did a macro of hitting one exe button to tap on all of them). I also have the full version. Is it a good idea to buy NPUs for a club to remove MADRIX 5 software to control 13000 rgb cells on MA? Besides cost is there anything in your mind that will help the programmer or just leave it there and just control MADRIX from the desk ? (currently have 81 universes of lights (77 are madrix via artnet v5)

Marco Cobian

Cant wait for this live stream! 1st. I would love to see a little more detail on how you get a good timecode flow going. I understand how you do it, and basically do it the same way, but for example how you set it up for each song. For example a master cue list with the big things, positions, colors, effects etc. How do you manage all the smaller cues like bumps and stuff. Re create them for each song? Copy them from a master busk page? Things like that. 2nd. If possible could you show an example of how you psr and clone into a venue when you get there. My usual problem is getting my effects to look right when bringing in house fixtures. And there is just not alot of MA2 user in my area. Thanks! I appreciate all your videos. I learn a lot and will continue supporting! Keep up the great work!

Christian Lewis

do you use the control attribute "positionmspeed" in any of your effects? I have tried using this attribute alongside a tilt effect to try and achieve a bouncing look with little success.

Sander ten Brinke
>>33961677

That is done automatically when you select and executor, ill send you the variable name in a minute

Kai Sauer
>>33960820

You have to change the ip Adress in the Windows network settings.

Kai Sauer
>>33961120

Wysiwyg, but there are some other great visualizers, like L8 or Depence2. I think, they are better than Capture and wysiwyg. The paperwork of capture is capable of expanding, wysiwyg is a great CAD Software. I would choose L8, you can buy the L8 CE2 version - you have almost all features, which the unlimited version has, and that for only 180€. You can controll 4 Universes with this version - in my opinion the best 3D Software

Kai Sauer
>>33961509

That’s a very good question, I’m also very interested in this - how to Programm the Timecode Songs, that the DJ could mix the Songs and the Show works !

Kai Sauer
>>33964218

The width is the time in %, over that the effect runs - if you have a PWM with 100%, it will be always the high value - with 0% always the low value - with 50% always the first half of the effect - 25% always the first 1/4 of the effect

Kai Sauer
>>33964473

Madrix is the best way for pixel mapping. If you would use NPUs, you have to buy a Grand Ma2 Ultra lite / lite or full size too - You are only with a console able, to use more than 1 NPU. That would be a very very expensive project: 10 NPUs and 1 Console and in my opinion it makes no sense, pixel mapping with Madrix is the best option

Cristiano Alves

1 - How you use showkontrol in a show that has timecode songs and live busking 2 - Can you explain the workflor to get a programming that with “one button”(or two) we can make a DROP and a BREAK? Like your “drop” and “break” buttons that you have on your showfile in X keys (just the workflow, executors, macros, speeds, rates)

Cristiano Alves

3 - On your website you have Tranning Service. Is there online training? I sent an email but got no response.