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High End Systems Power Cue DMX Overlay, •SavePalet •Transparency and, What Is TRANSPARENCY? How Does OVERLAY work

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What Is TRANSPARENCY? How Does OVERLAY work?

Overlay allows you to generate scenes where only the channels you choose to use are included in the scene. All other channels remain transparent.

While an attribute is selected, press OVERLAY, and the corresponding channels become overlay channels. Press OVERLAY again to turn off the feature. OVERLAY will be shown in the display next to the channel level indication. The words OVERLAY ENABLED will show in the display if any attributes have been tagged OVERLAY.

For programming/editing purposes both overlay and transparent channels will be output, so that the overlay is visible. The overlay only takes effect in RUN mode.

A channel may have a level between 0 and 255 or, to put it another way there are 256 steps of dimming between 0 (full dark) and 255 (full bright). There is also a neutral state where the channel has no level -- that is, the channel is transparent.

Transparency is used mainly when piling scenes of LTP channels on top of one another. Suppose you have scenes of moving lights all programmed with color white. You want to leave the mirror, dim, gobo etc. just as they are but you want to reproduce the scenes with red color.....

Make an OVERLAY scene and adjust the color wheel of each fixture to red and then save the new scene. The new scene contains only color wheel channels. During playback you would run a chase of the original white scenes, for example. To turn the chase red, you call up the new red scene, in effect overlaying new instructions in the color wheel channels while all other channels continue to function as before.

In the example below you can see the effect of overlaying scenes. In the FIRST OVERLAY SCENE most channels are transparent. The only change to the output is caused by the overlaying of a blue color. In the SECOND OVERLAY SCENE, the output is changed by the overlaying of a different gobo. The dimmer has moved to 50% but is HTP and not LTP, so the original output of 100% is maintained.

Note that when you program an overlay scene, all fixture channels are affected and will be rendered transparent if not specifically included in the scene. Non-fixture channels are not rendered transparent and may therefore be added to the scene.

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Page Power Line CONTENTS I. Introduction II. SetUp III. Programming IV. Run Mode Contacting High End Systems Product Modification Warning Warranty Information GENERAL PRINCIPLES Memory Card FRONT PANEL LAYOUT AND FUNCTIONS Display and softkeys, STORE/YES and ESCAPE/NO buttons Alphanumeric pad Push buttons Touchkeys Page keys Trackball Master slider Blackout switch REAR PANEL LAYOUT AND FUNCTIONS Power supply (PSU) input PC Card slot DMX output Auxiliary Control Input Page SET UP PASSCODES TIP •Press Setup •Enter current code •Press Pswd •Select menu to protect •Enter current code •Enter new code SET UP CHANNEL NAMES NOTE: •Press SetUp •Press ChnName •Scroll to a channel and press STORE •Type a name •Press STORE SET UP KEYS Latch and Add Flash and Add Latch and Swap Flash and Swap Latch and Solo, Global SET UP FIXTURES •Press Fixts •Select from and press ASSIGN •Select fixture type and press STORE •Set DMX address and press STORE SET UP GROUPS •Press Groups •Press button for Group •Select channels to include SET UP CHANNEL TYPES The Attributes Page SET UP CHANNEL TYPE •Press ChnTyp •Set the attributes •Press STORE SET UP PATCH - THE FADER PANEL not • Press SetUp • Press Patch • Choose Type Item and Method SET UP COMMS RS232 functions not yet implemented •Press Comms •Press ESCAPE PROGRAMMING SCENES - AN OVERVIEW (A) PROGRAMMING A SCENE WITH MOVING LIGHTS •Press Prog/Edit •Press Scene •Select a memory •Press Fixture •Continue over page PROGRAMMING A SCENE WITH MOVING LIGHTS - CONTINUED •Select fixtures •Adjust attributes •Press STORE to save PROGRAMMING A SCENE WITH MOVING LIGHTS - CONTINUED •Name the scene •Press ESC to exit STORE to program another scene SAVEPALET EXPLAINED What Is TRANSPARENCY? How Does OVERLAY work •SavePalet •Transparency and Overlay PROGRAMMING SCENES USING PRESET FOCUS •Press Prog/Edit •Press Scene •Select a Memory •Select Fixtures •Press Preset AUTO CHECK 16 BIT MIRROR FADES MIRROR LOCKS •Auto Check •Mirror Locks •16-bitMirror (B) PROGRAMMING CHANNELS INTO A SCENE - GENERIC LIGHTING EITHER •Press Scene •Select a memory •Press Chans •Select channels •Press STORE (B) PROGRAMMING GROUPS INTO A SCENE - GENERIC LIGHTING •Select a memory •Press Group •Select Groups •Select level •Press STORE SELECTING SCENE ATTRIBUTES - GENERIC LIGHTING 5(a) MOVING ZONE 5(b) SOUND-TO •Press Attrib •Select Type and attributes •Press STORE 5(c) STATIC SCENE COPYING AND CLEARING SCENE MEMORIES 4(a) •Press Copy •Select the scene to copy •Select the new scene memory and press STORE PROGRAMMING A CHASE Note: •Press Chase •Select a chase memory •Select a scene for each step. Set step SCENES, CHASES, CHANNELS AND LOOKS ARE LOADED ON TO PUSH EITHER 4(a) STORE OR 4(b) BUTTONS OR TOUCHKEYS FOR PLAYBACK PRIORITY RULES FOR PLAYBACK •Press Prog/Edit •Press Key •Select a pushbutton or touchkey •Select Scene, Chase Channel or Look 5(a) SELECT XREF BUTTONS OR TOUCHKEYS FOR PLAYBACK - CONTINUED 5(d) •Select effects to go on the key •Name the key LOOK REAL TIME SHOW PROGRAMMING •Press Show •Choose a Show button •Press RealTime •Record the Show NOTES ON SHOWS DELETING A SHOW DATA ENTRY STYLE SHOW PROGRAMMING Page RUN MODE - GENERAL FIND •Press Find •Press Scene Chase etc •Press ESC when finished VIEW •Hold View pressed •Press the key to view •Release View when finished LEVELS Page CAPTURING A LOOK Page ADJUST Page LIVE •Press Live •Choose fixture(s) •Choose an attribute •Press Escape when MEMORY CARD TYPE USING THE CARD FORMATTING THE CARD COPYING DATA THE CARD COPYING DATA FROMTHE CARD Restore 1. 'Backup card Found'Press STORE/YES 2. Note: DO NOT INTERRUPT CARD TRANSFER SYSTEM SUB-MENU System LOADING A NEW OPERATING SYSTEM Newsys STORE/YES ERASE 2. 'REALLY CLEAR MEMORIES?' Press STORE/YES PREV/NEXT 'Memory Erased ESCAPE OPTIONS MENU Options INC/DEC Page NOTES ON USING MIDI Page EXTERNAL CONNECTIONS (A) POWER SUPPLY INPUT (B) DMX OUTPUT (C)AUXILIARY CONTROL INPUT (D) AUDIO INPUT (E) RS232 (F) MIDI GETTING HELP •Version no •Serial no