Keep in mind that I don't work for ETC and they have nothing to do with this program. I'm posting it on the web at the following address: In most cases, but not all, that will be "intensity". moving lights) having their lowest DMX address patched to their single EOS channel number. This will result in multi-dimmer units (e.g. It finds all $Patch records and translates them (as much as it can) to standard ASCII PATCH records. Scott, I dashed off a program to do the translation you need. I have some macros and scripts set up so that this isn't so tedious.Īll this aside, Anne indicated in another thread that customized data export is in the works, so something like this will be much simpler in the future. I re-save the text file and merge back in to LW. I add a third column to the LW data that uses the VLookup function which looks up the channel number, matches it to a channel number in the patch worksheet and returns the adjoining dimmer number. I also export LW data, one column for LW ID and one for channel. To get an ASCII patch into Lightwright, I use BBEdit to first filter out all lines that don't begin with "Patch." I then convert the patch information to two tab delimited columns, one for dimmer, one for channel. In this case, a search and replace could fairly convert the EOS patch line to a standard patch line. I'm not sure of a Windows equivalent, but I'm sure there must be one. $Patch is a super-duper text editor that allows grep find and replace searches (for example, \d finds one or more digits). (In an ASCII show file, any word beginning with "$" indicates a propriety format) I imagine that this is to accommodate all the extra information Eos stores in patch. But in my years that has not occurred yet so I would not mis that feature in the software.So, I took a look at an Eos generated ASCII file, and the patch section uses manufacturer-specific keywords. Might be a rare case where one would need the parameters very badly. The topic starter said that LW treats conventional fixtures with the same channel number as one fixture and that is logical to me if they are on the same dimmer circuit.Įdit: Sorry didn’t really read your post wel, yes indeed one could apply the same adress to multiple dimmer channels. And I want them to be in one line in my patch lists in stead of split. But in that case in my paperwork they would share the same channel number. It’s very common to put two or more conventionals in one dimmer circuit. Of course more pars could be in one channel. Anyway, 6 dimmers does not always mean 6 channels of control. Doing so would give you less control, but could simplify. Not the way I would do it, but I have seen it done often. If you would plug 6 1k PARS into a 6k dimmer, you would be willing to plug them into 6 1k dimmers or 3 2k dimmers and assign them to the same control channel. If those are the numbers of the devices supplying power, it is quite conceivable that each would require a separate dimmer (depending on wattage and dimmer capacity) but be assigned the same control channel. It depends on what you mean by "dimmer channels".
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