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Chapter 5
Version 1.6.7.0
5.1 New Functions
5.1.1 Target Focus
MagicQ has added an option for speeding up creation of position palettes and for busking live positions. The Plot View supports
a "Target Focus" option which enables the selection of fixtures to be moved to a new position simply by selecting the position on
the plot. MagicQ calculates the pan/tilt required based on its knowledge of the position of the fixture in 3D relative to the stage
and the requested position. This is enhanced further by the support of timed palettes, just as with MagicQ palettes, so a new
target position can be selected with a simple time or with a split time across multiple fixtures.
5.1.2 Fade Types
The number of fade types selectable for fading of Cues has now been expanded to include "damped". This performs a fade that
starts slowly, increases in speed and then decreases again as it it gets close to the destination level. This is useful for making
graceful position fades particularly when moving objects in media server layers.
The Prog Window, View Times and Cue Window, View Times have been enhanced to enable fade types to be set on individual
times for attribute types Intensity, Position, Colour and Beam - previously it was only possible to set on individual attributes.
Note that as per individual delay and fade times, the fade type is only available for attributes that are in the Programmer / Cue.
5.1.3 Group based FX
MagicQ now supports FX based on groups. Multiple groups can be selected and than an FX applied to each of those groups rather
than to individual fixtures. This enables advanced FX over groups of fixtures. This has the advantage over parts and segments
that the groups can split the FX over different numbers of fixtures - e.g. 6 sports on the front truss, 4 on each of the sides, and 8
on the rear. It also has the advantage that if you add a fixture to the group then that fixture automatically becomes part of the FX
in all the Cues that use that FX.
If multiple groups are selected then when adding FX, MagicQ automatically requests whether the FX should be applied to the
the Groups or to the all the Heads.
5.1.4 Improved FX Engine
The FX Engine has been improved to enable the width parameter to operate on more Waveform FX - now it can be used on
Waveform FX with 1 or 2 steps. The inbuilt Waveform FX rampup, rampdown, tiltdim and pandim now support Width. New
Waveform FX "sineup" and "sinedown" have been added.
Previously as width was changed from 50% to 100% or 50% to 0% the in and out crossfades would not adjust symmetrically.
Now modifying the width works evenly allowing the in and out crossfades to be modified together.