How to add fixtures to already existing steps?

No if you try to combine the Fx gen steps they will just record after the last steps of the current steps. to my knowledge there is no way to do this without reprogramming. Hopefully you don't have a whole lot to add.
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Sincerely,

Jingles is right. It sounds like this user wants to overlap scenes, which can't necessarily be done.

If you're doing something like adding a color wash or some sort of fixed programming(say, a macro with a speed setting with other fixtures, you can add that to a moving head scene no problem. But movement over movement, not really going to happen too well. It CAN be done, but it will be difficult and requires lots of manual work. That's about the only way you can do a FX to FX "overlap/overlay/combination".

Sorry. I know you wanted to hear something better.

Cyril,

How many steps are you wanting to add to? I have found a way to do what you are trying to do but like Chris wrote, it does take a bit of time and there is some manual adjustments to do. But it can be done. I have learned a couple of tricks that will make it do-able. Let me know if you are interested and I will try to explain.

Ric

Why don't you tell us all? That way we can all learn.

Hi Ric,
That sounds great but I have to admit it appears to be a pain in the butt. I had 2 Ypoc moving heads and 8 par 56 LEDs but on top of that we have now a new moving head on top of the steps I already had in my scene. I did the cahnges manually step by step for 30 seconds (about 14 steps) but the piece is 4,5 minutes!!!
#what would be your idea?
thanks

Cyril,

I will try to explain what I have done to make this work. Basically, I have added scanners or moving heads to my already programmed scenes by this method.

First thing is to select the editor tab, then selecting the scene you want to modify. After that, go over to the step portion on the right side of the screen. I then click on the first step and hold down the shift key. I then scroll down to the last step and click on it. It should then highlight every step. I then go down to the faders that control the specific fixture(s) I want to add to the scene and I adjust them to put the fixture(s) in a static position. I do this just to get the fixture in the ballpark and I have learned it saves alot of time instead of trying to add the same fixture in each step. If you are going for having the fixture(s) in a set position, then you are done. If not and you want to add movement, color or gobo changes etc... then make the adjustments needed for each step. This is where it can take some time depending on how many steps and how creative you want to get with the fixture(s).

Anyway, I hope this makes sense, if not let me know and I will try to explain it better. I use to do each step by itself and it was a pain to get every value the same in each step. This way, it will put your fixture(s) into the scenes and at least get you a starting point if you want to get very creative with the fixture(s). Hope this helps!

Ric

I just reread my post and thought I would clarify the overall goal to this shortcut.... This method will add your fixture(s) to all the current scene steps at once, only adjusting the faders one time initially, instead of manually doing it over and over for each step.

I felt your initial instructions were quite clear. However, I'm experienced with MyDMX, and clearly the original poster is not that experienced yet.

The original poster's concern and problem is that they want to basically overlay one set of movement from one set of fixtures with a pre-existing scene that has other movement with other fixtures. Sort of a "scene merge". You and I came to the same conclusion that this is not going to be a quick fix as it will involve pen, paper and manually adjusting things.

My only super complicated scene came from a recent show I still work with. Even so, it was not that complicated. I have movement in a scene, and the director wants to set one side of wash from 100% to 50%, and the other side needs to wash from 0% to 100% while the movement was still going on. Since the wash changes took place at the same time, that in and of itself would be no big deal, but I had movement going on with 2 moving yoke fixtures. I had to manually adjust 4 wash fixtures from 100% to 50%, then come back, start over and set the other 4 from 0-100%.

In my case, this was fairly simple. Then I found out I had a new problem: The movement was on the WRONG SIDE!!(one light moved, the other was idle, and I flip flopped them by accident). So, now I had to go replicate the movement to the other fixture. Now, instead of killing the other fixture, I just closed the shutter, JUSt in case it was wanted again!

Lesson learned: DOUBLE CHECK the director's notes!!