Chapter 21. Version 1.9.3.2

21.1. New Features

21.1.1. Timeline Editor

Section marker can now be dragged by pressing the diamond at the end.

Section markers can be selected by pressing the coloured region, and then it can be renamed using SET and deleted using REM by pressing the same region.

Section markers colour can now be edited, if you select an individual section marker you can now alter the red blue and green values of the marker.

Each marker set layer can now be locked to prevent accidental changes.

Added the ability to quickly move the cursor, simply hold shift and press any point in the ruler at the top of the Timeline editor to have it shift to the position you pressed.

Added a method to keep the text readable by either choosing black or white text. It affects both text in the section markers and where the file name of the audio file is displayed.

Prevented loss of selected items in the Timeline editor if pressing buttons within the left column.

Removed the shrinking of the height for TC track layers when hiding the steps.

Fix for #0031183 so now the window position while timecode is playing won’t jump to the playhead while an item is selected or being dragged.

21.1.2. Net Sessions

The number of consoles in a Net Session has been increased to a maximum of 10.

21.1.3. Patch Improvements

The Patch Window now supports an option for auto adding VDIMs when Patching Heads that have RGB channels but no dimmers for the RGB channels. Set Auto VDIMs on soft button E. When this option is set MagicQ will add VDIMs when patching even if the personality does not specify VDIMs. When set on, the operation is the same as QuickQ which always patches VDIMs. This setting also applies for morphing Heads.

When morphing from a Head with multiple elements to a Head with single elements MagicQ now prompts whether to split the head or not.

After morphing MagicQ now removes VDIMs from the Patch for the old Heads if they are not used by the new Heads.

Morphing of Heads with VDIMs has now been improved so that Intensity should morph correctly between both single element and multi element heads with or without VDIMs.

Morphing has been improved for Iris between Heads with different Iris range types.

21.1.4. Reduced show file size

MagicQ now officially supports the "High Res FX & Reduced Size" show format. This has been previously been marked as "Reduced Size - testing only". This format significantly reduces show files speeding up loading and saving of shows and syncing of show data in Net Sessions.

Shows saved in this format can be loaded in any console running v1.7.2.0 or above - i.e. any versions released after 27 April 2016. In previous versions an _R extension was added to the file name to indicate the reduced format - this is no longer added as any console running software from the last 6 years will support the format.

21.1.5. Group Grid fade time short cuts

The following new fade time short cuts are supported when applying Palettes for normal Cues and when using Group Cues:

*..

Fade left to right across Group Grid

*//

Fade right to left across Group Grid

*++

Fade out to in on Group Grid

*--

Fade in to out on Group Grid

*+-

Fade centre out to in on Group Grid

*-+

Fade centre in to out on Group Grid

*…

Fade top to bottom across Group Grid

*///

Fade bottom to top across Group Grid

*+

Fade top out to in on Group Grid

*---

Fade top in to out on Group Grid

So for example to fade Colour palette 2 left to right across the Group Grid over 3 seconds enter

COL 2 / 3 * +

As with the existing shortcuts the fade time can be controlled by entering <total time> / <fade time> before the short cut, e.g. perform an inter centre fade to Colour 2 with each pixel fading for 3 seconds with total 10 second fade enter:

COL 2 / 10 / 3 * + -

When using Group Cues these timing short cuts are stored in the Cues so changing the Group (and Group Grid) will automatically update the Cues.

21.1.6. Other changes

When loading a show file if it fails to load correctly then MagicQ now opens the Command Log (Help Window) to show the log of failures.

Deselect heads button added to MagicVis. #0011734

Colour picker: colours outside the gamut now take shortest path to gamut instead of straight line to white point (makes gel selection in colour picker more accurate).

Plot view minumum zoom changed from 50% to 20%, this makes focus line more usable. #0018125

Changed colour of truss and lights in paperwork to make text more visible. #0019421

Deselect added to plot view in magic vis and focus added to the plot menu. #0024336

Move attached option added to plot in MagicQ and is linked to the same option in the patch view vis option. #0025806

21.2. Bug Fixes

Fix for Cue keypad syntax added in 1.9.3.0 to copy to specified ID (previously copying to the correct place in the Cue Stack but auto numbering the ID). Also not including if selecting multiple Cues to include using the Include Cue keypad syntax.

Fix for reset when Importing Grid into existing Grid. #0031687

Fix for adding VDIMs to multi element heads set as Independent. The heads would would act as Dup until MagicQ was restarted. This could be worked around by manually setting the Heads to Dup and then back to Ind in the Patch.

Fix for Intensity Group FX on multi head elements with VDIMs when using include elements - it previously would only put the FX on the first VDIM in the Head. #0022826

Fix for Pixelmap FX on Palettes on fixtures with multiple RGB elements but applying palette to single elements in that head (e.g. Pos palettes on MagicBlade)

Fix for the MOVE WHEN DARK on the first or second Cue of Cue Stack. It would not work the first time the Cue Stack was executed. This could be worked around by putting an explicit MARK CUE as the first cue of the Cue Stack. #0032292

Fix for manual bumping of Group FX using the Pause button. This previously worked for normal FX but not for Group based FX. #0032297

Fixed offset copying issue within the Timeline editor’s extended copy function.

Fixed an issue in the Timeline editor; where the regeneration of BPM markers failed if the a previous generation of BPM markers was stopped.

Fixed a reset that occurred when an item was selected and then any layout was opened.

When using Group Cues, RGB encoders will now work in the same direction for both RGB and CMY fixtures. #0031902

Improved stability for the TCNet protocol when using the PRO DJ LINK BRIDGE app, mixer data should now be visible as well. #0030856

Fixed an issue in the plot view; where the angle of light battens would sometimes be incorrect. #0032204

Fixed plot view selection order filter, it would sometimes show odd numbers only. #0016196 #0013398

The function to see if a tracker was intersecting with a rectangle object only used the width and height of the rectangle and its x y position, it now also uses the y rotation value as well.

Patching new fixtures would make a grid of fixtures that are not symmetrical about the centre of the stage in the plot/vis, this has now been fixed. #0014882

Fixed the luminosity values that are loaded into the colour picker from the gels library as they were previously very dim. This makes the colour picker gel selection work better. related to comments in. #0016356

Fix for visualiser gel colours; if rgb is specified in the gel csv use that instead of calculating from xyl values. Lee106 now shows as red in vis instead of magenta. #0014011

Plot view floor filter issue, sometimes fixtures that were on the ground would be in flown plot and not shown in the floor plan. #0016319

Plot view fix; focus hold and focus line used to not work with scanners. #0023459

Fixed zoom issue in plot view, reset zoom when changing between groups in plot view to focus on the new group. #0013781

remove show 3D vis button in patch window for consoles, this is a bug that opened up a Magic Vis window that was then unable to be closed.

Fixed a colour picker reset when trying to create a fan between two colour palettes. #0031693

Disabled mouse events in plot view if the console is locked. #0025830

Fix for plot view, some fixtures would not focus hold or focus line correctly. #0026098