Steps in Scene Builder

You are the first person I've ever seen go over or claim to go over even a few hundred steps, let alone 1000!

You might be using this for more than it's really intended for, LOL!

I'll look into it.

Hi James, I may be using the program incorrectly. I am building multiple scenes and putting them all into 1 scene/song. This way I have a complete light show coordinated for a particular song. I am doing this for a live band stage show, using three sets of Quad Scan Pros and Dotz TPar System. I am very pleased with theses recent purchases.

Most of the Multiple Steps are coming from the effects generator where the tilts, pans and colors are changing over a duration of 8 seconds.

Are you messing with the compression slider at all?

Yes James, I am bring the compressor all the way down. Regards, Zero Gravity

Leave it at 50, see what happens.

I see what he is saying. This may be resolved for him but just in case.

Let's say you make a night rider scene. It will make like 30 steps, then you make a rainbow scene and it has like 108 steps.

So you take your mouse to the top of the first step and then hold down shift and select the last step then click on copy.

Then you go to your night rider scene and go to the end and press paste. Now your scene has 138 steps.

If you do this enough times you will hit the 1000 mark easily. From there the # just reads #1... so an easy solution would be to make the window between the scenes and steps to be adjusted similar to raising the channel area up. The trigger box probably doesn't need to be that wide anyway.

Hello Astric69 and James.

Astric69 is bang on with how I was creating "1" scene file for an entire song. I really appreciate the input from the Pros.

By the way do any one of you know what the Pan / Tilt degrees are for the Quad Scan Pro?

Cheers, Zero

Hello James and Astric69. I have since written my scenes into sections with the bands' music as "intro" "verse" "chorus". This has worked well and the scene steps are now reduced.

I now have in excess of 500 scenes to cover 45 songs with each song averaging say 15 scenes.

My newest challenge is in the Editor. I like to keep the scenes grouped together as a song which correspond with the band's set list. Is there a quick way I can group the scenes of say song #38 and move it into position #9? I am currently moving each scene one position at a time up the editor page, 15 times per song. That's a lot of mouse clicking.

Regards,
Zero Gravity

Hi, I deleted your other post, as you posted the same exact thing in more than one thread, this is cross positing and not allowed sorry.

The only way to organize scenes is by manually changing the order like you are doing. Sorry, MyDMX 2.0 wasn't really designed with the intention of having probably not even more than 100 scenes total for a show/set up. It can handle it, but we never envisioned it to have anywhere near 500 scenes plus. The program was mainly designed for Dj's who need about maybe 20-30 cues a night for weddings, bars clubs etc. not fully programmed band lighting. but props to you for finding a low cost solution that is working for you so far.

Holy Smokes James... do you ever sleep?
Thanks for the reply and insight. I posted the 2nd as I thought this thread may have gone dead due to the time line. I am enjoying the ADJ package purchased as it is working very well for the Bands and DJ shows.
Cheers,
Peter

Sleep? why? there's work to be done still! LOL

Also it is only 10pm at night and I am typically up until 2-4am. I'm a night owl, as any lighting guy should be