ChamSys MagicQ User Manual User Manual
Magicq user manual
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Introduction
- Installing MagicQ Software & Drivers
- Using MagicQ on PCs and Macs
- MagicQ Concepts
- MagicQ Layout
- Quick Start
- Starting up MagicQ
- Calibrating the Touch Screen
- Starting a New Show
- Enabling Outputs
- Connecting a MagicQ Playback Wing
- Connecting External Monitors
- Patching
- Controlling Heads
- Naming a Group
- Recalling a Group
- Setting Levels for Dimmers
- Locating Heads
- Modifying Attributes
- Recording a Palette
- Adding in FX
- Recording a Cue
- Recording a Cue Stack (Chase or Theatre Stack)
- Selecting and recording complete window layouts
- Saving the Show
- Playback
- Patching
- Patching on MagicQ
- Getting started with patching
- Patching a Head or Dimmer
- Head Names and Head Numbers
- Gel name and number
- Generating auto groups
- Multi Element Heads
- Inverting and Swapping
- Pan and Tilt Offsets
- Applying Offsets using Update
- Minimum and Maximum levels
- Dimmer curves
- Testing channels
- Changing the DMX address of heads
- Patching a Head to multiple DMX addresses
- Unpatching a Head from a DMX address
- Patching scrollers
- Editing Heads
- Cloning (Adding extra heads / dimmers to a programmed show)
- Morphing Heads (Changing Head type)
- Importing Heads
- Exporting Heads
- VL5 type channels (split personalities)
- Merging with DMX input
- Customising Locate, Default, Highlight and Lowlight values
- Theatre Patch syntax
- Virtual Dimmers
- Patch Head Filtering
- Setting Intensity levels
- Controlling Attributes
- Selecting Heads
- Using Groups
- Selecting Heads using the keypad
- Selecting heads using the rig plan view
- Head Macros
- Locating Heads
- Modifying Attributes
- Using a mouse or track-ball to control pan and tilt
- Flip / Mirror
- Setting attribute values using the keypad
- Selecting individual Heads
- Highlight Mode
- Lowlight function
- Reselecting heads using Palettes and Intensities (Active Palette and Intensity)
- Fan Mode
- And Only
- Palettes
- Using Palettes
- Recording Palettes
- Intensity Palettes
- Naming Palettes
- Updating Palettes
- Copying and moving Palettes
- Removing attributes from Palettes
- Linked Palettes
- Viewing / Editing Palette contents
- Using Palettes with times
- Making Palettes into Cue Stacks
- Selecting Palettes from the keypad
- Merging of Palettes from another show
- Modifying Palettes in the personality
- Grabbing Palettes from DMX input
- Expanding Palettes
- FX Engine
- Adding in FX
- FX Speed & Size
- FX base values
- FX add modes
- FX Spread (offsets over heads)
- FX Parts
- FX Segments
- FX Direction & Inversion
- Width
- FX fade times
- FX delay times
- Initial spreads
- FX on CMY and RGB fixtures
- Flicker FX
- Multiple FX
- Joining / Splitting multiple FX
- Modifying FX for selected Heads
- Changing FX
- FX Reordering
- Blocking FX
- One Shot FX
- Generating user FX
- Editing user FX
- Palette FX
- FX colour flicks
- FX using base colour
- FX Window
- Importing and Exporting the FX Library
- Adding in FX
- Programmer
- What is in the programmer?
- Clearing the programmer
- Activation by Channel or by Head?
- Recording a Cue
- Split Cue Times
- Recording to a specific Cue Id
- Snapshot Icons
- Record Options
- Active
- Removing channels from the Programmer
- Making channels hard values
- Copy between heads
- Blind programming
- Parking (freezing) channels
- Outputs Windows
- Editing Cues
- Cue Stacks
- Cue Stack Window
- Chase Timing
- Cue Timing
- Tracking
- Cue Only
- Mark Cues
- The Cue Store and Cue Stack Store
- Assigning Cues and Cue Stacks
- Copying and Moving Cues
- Linked Cues
- Removing Cues and Cue Stacks
- Cue Stack Defaults
- Audio Sound FX Cues
- Cue Stack Macros
- Timeline
- Selective copying of Cue Stacks
- Creating a new Cue Stack for different heads
- Playback
- Cue Stack Options
- Advanced Playback / Cue Stack Options
- Live Programming (Busking)
- Adding individual channels using preset faders
- Over-ride / take-over
- Viewing Cues and Cue Stacks
- Modifying chase speed / contrast
- Modifying FX parameters
- Stop / Starting Cue Stacks
- Jumping to a Cue in a Cue Stack
- Over-riding using the programmer
- Adding in new FX
- Applying palettes with time
- Releasing / Clearing with time
- Busking Master
- Programmer Master
- Execute Window
- Automation
- LED & Pixel Mapping
- Patching LED on MagicQ
- Using the Grid view in the Outputs Window
- Inserting heads into the grid
- Pixel Mapper
- 3D Pixel Mapping
- Multi Element Heads
- Making Grids of Groups
- Programming LED using standard FX
- Making groups out of LED pixels
- Making new LED personalities on MagicQ
- Controlling Media Servers
- Head Editor
- Curve Editor
- FX Editor
- Network Manager (SnakeSys)
- Networking of MagicQ systems
- Manual configuration of Multi Console operation
- Remote control of MagicQ
- ChamSys Remote Protocol Commands
- Controlling MagicQ using TCP/IP
- Controlling MagicQ using serial port
- Audio
- MIDI
- Timecode Support
- Remote Input port
- Scene Setter
- MagicQ Visualiser
- MagicVis
- Using MagicVis
- Patching Fixtures in the Visualiser
- View Vis View
- Positioning the Heads in the Visualisation
- Objects
- Attaching Heads to Objects
- Modifying Beam Angle and Fixture Shape
- Visualising Media Servers
- Moving Trusses
- Coloured objects
- DMX Controlled Camera
- Removing Visualiser Heads and Objects
- Changing the Size of the Room
- Paperwork
- Converting an Existing MagicQ Show File
- Converting a MagicQ Grid Into a Visualisation
- Visualiser Settings
- Plots
- Blind Visualisation
- Using MagicQ with other Visualisers
- Settings
- Programming Mode
- Playback Mode
- Output Settings
- Wing Settings
- Monitor Settings
- Touch Screen Settings
- Mode & Security Settings
- Programming Settings
- Keypad / Encoder Settings
- Auto enter on keypad intensity set
- Select heads on keypad intensity set
- Select Heads and Palettes from keypad
- Select heads on include
- Keypad always selects heads
- Keypad Syntax (Theatre Patch)
- Encoder Mode
- Swap pan and tilt encoders
- Swap Encoder direction
- Swap Palette and Cursor Page Buttons
- MagicQ keyboard mode
- Map Keys to THRU, @, FULL
- Enable Mouse to control pan/tilt
- Windows Settings
- Cue Storage Settings
- Playback Settings
- Crossfade button function
- Split Crossfade on PB9/PB10
- Crossfade controls Playback
- Stomp Playbacks
- Intensity (HTP) FX can subtract
- Go reasserts channels
- Fader off zero reasserts channels
- Next Page changes to next used
- Current Playback follows last touched
- Playbacks S + GO = PAUSE
- Tap to Time buttons
- Activate playbacks on start
- Run in Execute Window
- Network Settings
- Port Settings
- MIDI / Timecode Settings
- Multiple Console Settings
- Hardware Settings
- General Settings
- Individual Playback Settings
- Calibrating the touch screen
- Displays brightness and contrast
- Console lamp brightness
- Button LED brightness
- Controlling console lamp from the programmed show
- Locking the console
- Button test mode
- System Management
- Starting Up
- Shutting Down
- Saving Shows
- Backing up to an external system
- Loading Shows
- Erasing
- Import and Export of Show Data and Show Merging
- Saving and Loading Settings
- File Manager
- Transferring files over network
- Status Window
- Backup Archives
- Using shows on different MagicQ products and show versions
- MagicQ Profiles
- Software Upgrade
- Handy Hints
- MagicQ Short Cuts
- Troubleshooting
- No outputs
- MagicQ not responding
- MagicQ responding slowly
- Strange key presses, unexpected window changes
- MagicQ console not booting
- MagicQ console blank screen
- MagicQ console white screen
- MagicQ console distorted screen
- MagicQ console internal touch screen not working
- Fader, Encoder or Button not working correctly
- Button Functions
- Licensing
- Glossary