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After using the Theatre stack for a week I'm running into three problems:
1) When an existing scene is updated by merging the contents of the programmer with the scene; all times seem to get lost. I don't exactly know which times get set (seems like the last set of times I manually entered), but the existing times are gone. Very annoying!
2) Starting a seperate chase on a submaster seems to kill all shapes in a scene. I recorded a scene on the theatre stack which contained an effect from the effect generator; after raising a submaster containing a chase (not involving the fixtures I used in the effect generator!) the effect is lost and I have to restart the scene all over again
3) Not really a problem, more like a feature request. It's very difficult to program nice transistions from scene 1 to scene 2 if you don't want your movers to flip/scroll colours for instance. The method I now use is:
- save a duplicate of scene 1 to 1.1
- save a duplicate of scene 2 to 1.9
- manually kill all output for the lights which need to switch LTP parameters
- merge the contents of the programmer (no output for the movers) with scenes 1.1 and 1.9

Now the transistion is nice (output gets killed, next ltp parameters are set, output is faded in again) but this is a lot of work when you want 100 scenes to fade nicely! A feature which helps us doing this would be very nice!

No support left on this forum? 2 Posts and 0 answers. What happened to Olie?

Busy doing more important software things I'm sure. But I agree there are too many unanswered questions on this forum & it desperately needs more active involvement from Avo.

What I do is much easier for myself, maybe also for you.

I work a lot with the old-robocolors pro400 on the expert. And i program always my show just like i want to have it. While programing (= during rehearsal) I program the HTP-channels with their levels and the robo's (=LTP) with their colors,gobo (=iris) and the dimmer.

I mostly have a blackout of the robo's between 2 scene's where they are used. Then I change the timing of the second scene. I set the HTP-wait to 0.2s and the LTP-fade to 0s. So when I push GO then first the colorflags move and then (after 0.2s) the dimmers fade in. And this works for me.

And when I have 2 different colors without a blackout, then I let 'm fade slowly or force a blackout, just like it would seems nice.

I hope you can also work with this?

Yeah I do that myself too But unfortunately, a blackout between scene's isn't always wanted. And if it's not... well, see above post