Artist Help: Editing Objects

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The main menu and the tools provide various method of changing the information contained within an object. Some objects can be copied or moved on to others.

Copy, Cut & Paste

Drag & Drop

Editing Scenes and Cues Set Parameters method If you right-click on a Scene, Step or Cue and select 'Set Parameters', the data it contains will be set to the Fixture control panels and outputs. Also if sub-scene data is contained this too will be set.

This also sets the Program Control window parameters to make it easy to save the data back to the containing object.

Now you can open the Fixture control panels and adjust the parameters as required. Then you can save the data back to the Cue or the 'Scene/Step' by clicking 'Store' in the appropriate section of the Program control window. You may also choose to Store the data as a new Cue or Scene. This is a very powerful way of creating new scenes based on previously programmed scene.

Link Edit method This method is best for making changes blind. That is without the changes being output.

Select all the link objects within a single scene that you wish to change. Right-click on any of these and select 'Edit content'. This will open the Link Edit window in the Master frame. You can then adjust the values of these Link objects and store them back to the scene or cue.

See Link Edit

Editing Links

Drag & Drop

Copy, Cut & Paste