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Fixture Effects – Level Control Effects (Video 8 of 20)

What is the Level Control Effect?
How do I adjust the curve type of an envelope?
How do I resize a level control clip?
Can I crop a level control clip?

This video will cover:
1. Add a single channel to a track
2. Add individual channels to the Lamp Preview window
3. Controlling levels from the clip
4. Edit Envelopes in the Timeline Editor
5. Set Envelope Curve Type to Step, Linear, or Spline
6. Resize Level Control by
a. Scaling or
b. Cropping

The Envelope Editor – Zoomed (Video 9 of 20)

How do I precisely control DMX devices/fixtures?
How do I use the VenueMagic Envelope Editor?
How do I adjust the envelope curve type?

This video will cover:
1. Open the Envelope Editor
2. Overview of the Envelope Editor
3. Show/Hide Envelope
4. Select an Envelope
5. Adjust Envelope handles to create desired effect
6. Add Handles
7. Choose Curve Type
8. Select multiple handles
9. Remove handles
10. Playback control in Editor
11. Playback multiple tracks in Envelope Editor
12. Zoom in and out

Other Uses for the Envelope Editor (Video 10 of 20)

How would I change the audio volume at different parts of the show?
Can I add sound effects to my audio within VenueMagic?
Can I adjust sound effects on the timeline?
Can I change the color of the envelope in the envelope editor?
Can I control Fixture effects with an envelope?

This video will cover:
1. Edit Pan and Volume Envelopes in an audio clip
2. Enable Sound Effects
3. Control Sound Effects
4. Control Sound Effects in the envelope Editor
5. Change Envelope Color
6. Control Chaser speed and brightness in the Envelope Editor
7. Control Built In fixture effect parameters with an envelope

Envelope Editor with Colors (Video 11 of 20)

Use a color Picker to instantly select the color for an RGB lamp.

This video will cover:
1. Test that individual channels are properly set up
2. Rename a fixture
3. Creating Color Handles
4. Use the color selector to choose the RGB Lamp’s color
5. Add color handles to endpoints

Control Tracks – Channel Merging (Video 12 of 20)

How do control a single channel from multiple locations?
How do I change how the output from different locations merge to control the channel?

This video will cover:
1. Select a track’s channels using the Control Track Properties
2. Add individual channels to a track
3. Select the channel merge mode
a. Highest Takes Precedence
b. Add
c. Scale
d. Override

Project Organization (Video 13 of 20)

This video gives an overview of the VenueMagic Project.

Timeline Editor and Track Groups (Video 14 of 20)

How do I organize and manage large projects?
How do I use Timeline Pages?

This video will cover:
1. Group Tracks together
2. Re-Arrange tracks in a timeline
3. Re-name a track group
4. Ungroup a track group
5. Delete a group
4. Create Timeline Pages
5. Organize Timeline Pages
6. Playback entire timelines or just a single page in a Timeline.

Cue Buttons and Cue List (Video 15 of 20)

Basically, Cue Buttons allow you to run multiple timelines at a time, from a single button. There are many more features, but in this tutorial, we will just introduce the basics.

How do I run multiple timelines simultaneously?
How do I use cues?
How do I loop a Cue?
How do I pause or stop a cue?
How do I program a cue so it will only run once?

This video will cover:
1. Run a timeline from a Cue Button
2. Re-arrange Cue Buttons
3. Change Cue name
4. Add and remove Cue Buttons
5. Create and Edit Cue Groups
6. Button Properties
7. Add another line to your button title
8. Edit button so you can only run one instance of a timeline at a time
9. Introduction to foreground and background timelines
10. Cue List Introduction
11. Play, Pause and Loop individual Cues in the Cue list
12. Play, Pause or Loop All Cues in the Cue list
13. Mute all audio playback
14. Zero out channel output