Scene Builder

Well, I'll answer my own question, partly. I was working on a different computer (laptop) with recent MyDMX 2.0 install. I had to expand the field for the fader section and then voila, the selections to disable AUTO showed up. Once I changed those I was able to regain control of the MX-4 lights for live/manual changes while the color effects kept running on the LED fixtures. Dumb me. This being said, it would be more user friendly if the scene builder function allowed for selective changes to fixtures and only the fixtures you want to modify - as a subset of the master scene you are working on. Or separate by groups within the scene. The way it is now, it seems all or nothing with respect to a specific scene when generating your completed effects.

The efx generator should work correctly on the shutter and colors.... which release of the program are you using?

Since my last post I was able to create some successful scenes with LED's having color effects and four moving lights each having different positioning and color treatments.
I am using the February 13 release.
But honestly, I can't repeat what I did to make it work and there aren't any real helpful tutorials anywhere including the user manual.
If I put color effects on the LED's and then set up the moving lights in the efx, once I generate the scene, the LED effects stay in place but the moving light settings disappear. If I set up the moving lights first and then generate a scene with just plain colors for the LED's it seems to be OK. I can't mix effects on one group without it overriding something else I did. And it doesn't seem possible to re-edit efx generated scenes - you wind up with a new scene instead.

PS - In my case it seems more functional to, for example, set LED's for color effects only with the efx and do the moving lights one by one in the scene editor in scenes where the moving lights are actually not moving, but at fixed positions. If I want a scene with the moving lights doing certain motions, the efx can handle it. Perhaps that is less complicated.

sounds like you have the fixtures bunched to close in the matrix window (the grey grid) you should seperate the goups of like fixtures...once you do this, then you can put effects on specific fixtures without messing with the others

I have spent a lot of time with this and my hair is gray(er).
Please try my set up and explain to me what I am missing - I still have repeated problems setting up scenes and even am experiencing changes made to one scene altering another.

Fixtures patched in:
8 - LED Pro64 using ADJ mode 3 (simple rgb).
5 - Megalite NE strips (each strip has four sections - using four generic rgb per strip.
4 - Martin MX4

The easy part - just do everything manually and forget scenebuilder - great if nothing has color effects or motions....terrible if that is all I can use.

I created Scene 1 as a blackout scene - LED pars and strips faders all down, MX4 shutters closed.

I tried making Scene 2 to have color effects on the LED devices - works IF I leave the MX4's alone. Generating the scene produces the color effects. Now, if I go live and take the MX4's off of AUTO, I can adjust them for static beams and color.
But guess what, if I switch back live to Scene 1 for blackout, ONLY the LED fixtures blackout. The MX4's have retained the changes I made to them in Scene 2.
I mean really, each scene should retain its own properties without being overridden by another scene that has been modified in Live mode!!

I tried making another Scene, Scene 3, using scenebuilder. I started with the MX4's first as a group and had all shutters open, colors selected and then a moving pattern from the efx. I then went to modify the LED fixtures and in doing so it changed the characteristics of the MX4's.

One scene setup I wanted to do and need in various color versions would be the LED pars and strips having various color effects in play and the MX4's with only fixed position changes and fixed colors. No matter what method of setup I try in scenebuilder, it is like a rubik's cube. I try selecting and doing fixtures in small bunches, separately, create groups - all failing in the end to provide discrete control over fixture types and effects. I have moved them far apart from each other on the scenebuilder grid to avoid any field overlaps...makes no difference. If it is going to screw up, it will and consistently.

I am using the latest software release (of myDMX 2.0) on a Windows 7 pro 64 bit PC.

I have the same issue with 3 different computers. The glitch of editing a parameter on one light causing other unselected lights to black out seems to come and go. Only fix seems to be closing the program and reopening. The effect generator issue seems to have a consistency. If you set your led pars to whatever and then use the generator to create a moving effect on scanners everything seems to work fine. If you set your scanners first and then use the generator to create a color effect on your pars it will kill every light that wasn't included in the color effect. The only workaround I've found is to create the color effect on the fixtures you want them on then generate it. After it's generated you have to edit the lights that went black in each step of the program. If you use a low compression rate this sucks as it creates a ton of steps. You can select all the steps by holding shift and pressing the down arrow. Once selected you have to edit the blacked out lights individually via the faders. I'm still waiting on a response on another post I made about this issue. If I figure something out or someone posts a fix I'll post it here.

I meant to say thank you earlier. I did not know the tip about selecting all the steps in a generated scene to make manual changes in the Editor mode. That actually was a great help for me with the scenes I wanted to create for rgb LED's with effects and my scanners in fixed X-Y positions/colors. But scene builder as you have discovered and reported on certainly has a boat load of quirkiness.

The new version of the software appears to have resolved this issue. It is dated for November and is available on the product page.

I saw some of the posts about the 18 November version. After over 8 months of absenteeism from the forum by anyone from ADJ, I had long passed the point of patience and moved on to someone else's product.
I have "my" MyDMX 2.0 packed up in the original box and probably its next destination will be eBay. I wonder if the lighting industry gives out awards for worst product rollouts - MyDMX could be a poster child.

Chitowntommy, sorry you aren't happy with the product, however please know that I am now once again the dedicated support tech for My DMX. Although, it is probably too late.

Sorry to see you go.