I don't often give away programming secrets...

[@christianjackson]

Heads up to everyone who will be patiently waiting for today's video: Today I will be live streaming at Q Nightclub with the CODA team. The stream starts at 3PM west coast time. I don't want to bombard everyone with notifications for videos, so the stream will be today's video.

[@AlexCostelloMusic]

will the stream be re uploaded once it has finished?

[@christianjackson]

+SLS -Sound and Light Sorcery airport wifi strikes again

[@ve3cda]

Christian - Thanks for taking the time to go through how you approach setting up the various macros/commands. For anyone with a bit of computer programming experience, this will all make sense. If someone is interested in this, but doesn't have the computer background, I would suggest they seek out a friend who has done some programming to get them over the initial learning hump. Really enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work. Ben Price - San Antonio

[@JosephSoulMusic]

Not to mention all the work you put into creating those show files and they are built around how you play.

[@papadenz2022]

this video is useful even without MA2. now i understand how a showfile should look like. thanks and more power to you.

[@ConsuelaTheCleaner]

God, my heart skipped a beat when I saw that this video was uploaded and 21 MINS LONG! Once again, great video! (Also, theres a random min or two of black right at the end :-P)

[@jacoporiccilaltro]

Next video should be on how to create sequences from color presets for fixtures types and how to apply this technique to always different rigs! Seriously, really appreciated man! Keep going with this daily vlog thing, very interesting!

[@techcraft_de]

Jacopo Ricci yep, i also want to see the correct cloning for different rigs / setups... For me Thats the hard Part of the Story

[@techcraft_de]

Jacopo Ricci yep, i also want to see the correct cloning for different rigs / setups... For me Thats the hard Part of the Story

[@jacoporiccilaltro]

same!

[@brunorodriguez9952]

You can do a Goto Sequence and create all colors in one Sequence instead of making 13 different seq

[@ENPIus]

Gotta find an MA3 equivalent of doing this! Great stuff

[@S12Freak]

Hi Christian thank you so much for this awesome tutorial! I'm really keen on trying it out by myself :) love your videos! regards from switzerland :)

[@Zerovproductions]

Your videos are super useful!! I mostly operate on martin, or jands vista consoles but your thought processes on how to program really help me to build my own show files on these other consoles. busking shows has been an issue for me in the past because about half way through my even i run outta looks and start recycling looks Ive already used.

[@atschi2000phil]

Thanks for that video. Created this now for my own showfile. Great Work

[@brandontan4876]

To those who use MA Lighting and have questions, you can join the MA support group here: web.facebook.com/groups/ma2lighting/?hc_ref=SEARCH

[@rnrglenn]

i feel better with myself helping people in their goals

[@shaytech3865]

Thank you very much for your Input and this charming busking tool, I love it - but I added some "wait for go" funktionality.

[@stutru]

Christian, I'm new to MA but have learned a lot thanks to your videos! So Thank you! One thing I'm trying to figure out with the show I'm working on is how to make a button that flashes our atomics when I press a button on the console. I seem to remember seeing you had something like that set up on your arena lighting video. So any advice you have on that would be amazing. Thanks again for all these videos!

[@alyssaseinen8643]

There are some Lua plug ins available online that will generate the macros in seconds if you have sequences, groups, colours, images. etc.

[@timothygrutzner8042]

Any pointers to those?

[@ronanhunter8177]

Christian "takes a shot " "proceeds to drive "

[@Parrot4859]

Thank you for making this tutorial! I've been looking how I would do this. Seems like a lot of work tho, do you reprogram all of it for each gig or do you just change the sequences?

[@M6-RC]

Great explanation on how to do this, makes a lot of sense. Once you create this layout, what is involved in using the show file on any gig you walk into? Does it involve a lot of cloning? How do you make sure these are firing sequences for the fixture types from rig to rig?

[@joselidrum]

You just clone over from your show file rig. I use Sharypys, Mac 250's and Auras, and just clone the info to the new house rig each night. Then update presets and done.

[@b52productions]

just wanted to say thanks for the videos as i am a new user,, keep em coming

[@3CouzHein]

Thank you for this great tutorial !! I just wonder, how do you do when you change show or venue, when you don't have the same fixtures, do you use presets that you simply update in order not to redo the thing every time ? EDIT: I found the answer below :)

[@ithinkmynameismoo5e]

I have got to get out of my... several horses, town. There is so much more out there in civilization.

[@FUXProductions]

you are the main MVP

[@sunijoensen]

Hi Christian. Love your MA videos. You are very good at explaining things in an understandable way. Just one question. What is the function on the three-colour buttons on the bottom?

[@SebB366]

Does anyone know if this is the same process in MA3? Im a beginner programmer learning on an MA 3 with limmited MA2 knowladge.

[@tylerford9404]

At 7:18 what do the variable do? "$killtopcolor /m" and "$emptycolors" and "$spotcolors". As in what command is executed in that variable?

[@krillesvahn]

When I save the showfile to my USB, will the images stay in the file. Or do I need to import them to my USB?

[@paas_show_concept]

Thanks man, really appreciate the video. Helped out a lot. Keep on your good work. :D

[@freethrow62]

so.. I know you do a few programming instruction videos but can you do a video showing how it gets applied in Realtime? cause I have a showfile that i feel works for me. but you do way more stuff in the same amount of time. and I wanna know how to better a workflow while busking and how things are laid out.

[@ibimslawa]

A native picker would be great. Maybe a tip for grandMA3 (wink wink)? But I'd like it to have customization options. And so you can set it up for color, gobo / beam or more

[@caodashi]

Awesome！ Can I translate your theory into Chinese, and post it on my blog and share it with my Chinese friends?

[@maxferreiroMop]

Do you have any experience with martin M-PC ? Im a sound technician but sometimes i have to do lights in the club were i work. Its really intuitive. What do you think? Greets and keep the videos coming! :D

[@saminix1]

Gosh... I was considering buying a ma board... But now im glad im stuck with avolites... xD I guess ill buy the Titan Arena instead of the grand ma.. It just seems theres to much to do with MA to get the same results with Avolites..

[@christianjackson]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[@saminix1]

Well.. In Avolites, you just choose the colour, then "rekord" and put it on the screen. Exacly the same results, and the box will automaticly be the colour your fixture is, with no macros ect. But i dont know much about grand ma... I really want to learn more about it and i love watching your videos! I have only worked as a lightning tec for a bit over a year now. And i promise you that all i've learned (even tho im working with a Avolites Tiger Touch) is thanks to you! I get so much insperation of how to program when i see you do your shows and how you have layed out everything on the board... So a big thank you! :) Best regards from a small town in Sweden

[@vincentverweij1053]

Hi Christian, Nice tutorial, watched all videos up until now. Question, for each show you do, you have to program up front (if not in the club). But each fixture has kind of the same color but differ sometimes slightly. So for the programming up front, do you adjust your sequences per fixture type to get the right color for that sequence? Same applies probably for your positions which you showed in the 3 hour video? Cheers from Belgium!

[@christianjackson]

+Vincent Verweij all the sequences are built using global color presets. So I only ever have to update the presets

[@vincentverweij1053]

Christian Jackson thanks for answering so fast!

[@RikSolo]

thats.. honestly a lot of effort for doing something like this, coming from an M-Series user..

[@TheVideosCs]

Hey, When you press the button of any all color, there is a command for the image to be copied in all groups or a command must be made for each one?

[@lawsonmarsh]

Slight issue: When I try to add a command in my macro that says for example "copy image 1 at image 4+5+6+7 /o " it will not show up in my images that it has changed. Is there a step i'm missing? The images are 25 X25 jpg files if that matters

[@evankhan5950]

need to be .bmp

[@tomcar9299]

good job

[@MrSebyBrooks]

Hey! Does anyone know if this process works in MA3?

[@rotationevents]

What camera are you using the quality is amazing

[@fabian11632]

Im planing to rework this in my Dot2. Ist there any Chance it will work, or are there some GrandMA only features

[@dasruten]

Why do you use sequence instead of putting in the cmd of the macro" at preset 4.x"? Is for something in particular? Thx

[@christianjackson]

Because I want to play it back, not put it in the programmer.

[@stormellis9925]

is there a specific reason you prefer to have it off executors as opposed to the programmer would it not be the same result or is it that you dont want to be able to clear out something like that ?

[@elofbergkvist7600]

What does the macro 818 do? 12:54

[@krillesvahn]

"Empty all color slots" kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnKziX6hrqiro7M

[@wegmitdeviehscher757]

Im from Germany, 13 jears old and LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!!!!

[@drewhopkins9847]

If you are calling sequences and not executors how are you adjusting the fade time of the sequences or are they all just bumping to the new color? I am currently using executors for mine to allow use of a rate master just wondering if I could cut the executors out of it.

[@christianjackson]

I use execs now but you can assign fades to sequences from pool playback.

[@RGBReact]

@@christianjackson way to update your video! #letemknow

[@_k_s_b_]

Is it possible to set the colors for one fixture type Odd/Even?

[@wsmentertainment4793]

Sucks that the vlog got removed. 😫.

[@ActionCamPOV]

Whats the advantage of this setup using macros over using (my avolites experience here) color pallettes? I am assuming MA has a similar type of feature to color pallettes?

[@christianjackson]

Because running your show from the programmer is bad practice

[@brandonkylerose]

How do you define variables like the $Emptycolors & $Spotcolors? Im drawing a blank on how to set this up so i can overwrite the images that I'm not using. Essentially, how do you group all these macros?

[@christianjackson]

Brandon Rose the command setvar will allow you to set variables. The help manual has a great section on it. Basically setvar $spotcolors = “image 214 thru 227”

[@RGBReact]

@@christianjackson didnt even mention that in the video, lol. youtube scam

[@Whopcap]

Thanks for the video!

[@bassface8269]

im trying to buy something for you from your wish list as a thank you, but there is no adress for shipping...........

[@ericchan5379]

I have a question. For example: In the layout already had one color on use and the image is filled Second I try to another color and that color image is filled. And how can I reset the first color image to be empty?

[@brikstik3442]

You need to have the empty all color slots macro I believe which is 818 in his video I believe. 12:54

[@Crunchy2304]

i have a question, is it possible to select every second oder thrid fixture easy? so i dont need to select every single one by hand?

[@christianjackson]

+sven hallo use matricks

[@Crunchy2304]

thank you! i'm sorry if that's a dumb question but i'm kind of new into light operating and i started it because of you! (and i'm sorry for my bad english im from germany :D)

[@yoranstaal4197]

sven hallo i know that hog 4 used auto pallets and auto groups. With auto groups you can make groups like 1/4 2/4 etc.

[@sgtsunburn117]

Post a mix with that db4!

[@marcogiampa283]

does that mean i have to redo the sequences every time i change fixtures?

[@faq_slime]

Those are Trubosound speakers right? :D

[@ct---hv6yi]

Why do you have on your on pc version space for over 1000 Macros and I have only 239? Nice tutorial :)

[@sergeylobanov8372]

Hi. which team in Macro 818 (EMPTY ALL CLOR SLOTS) ?

[@RagnarBuseyMaynard]

Awesome video .. I am having some 'Pre-processing Errors come up in the Command Line For: Copy $Emptycolors At $Spotcolors /m AND $killtopcolor /m Saying VARIABLE NOT FOUND .. Not sure on what to do to fix this.

[@tylerford9404]

"$Emptycolors" $Spotcolors /m" and $killtopcolor /m" are variables he set. For instance $Emptycolors At $Spotcolors /m could mean he's making sure that row is empty before changing to the image he selected, the $killtopcolor would be changing the top row from "filled" to "empty" if the makes sense.

[@brandonkylerose]

How do you define these variables? I've gotten to the point that I've got all my images loaded and sequences & macros done, but I'm struggling with overwriting colors not in use. Essentially, how do you group all these macros?

[@yingliangnie7038]

Brother, I am your loyal fan, I often just look at your published MA video, I saw your video, I learned a lot, thank you very much! Can you share your Show file for me to study your usage, i really like your Editing program as well as macros. If it can be really grateful!

[@krysisza]

XD

[@coolredpen]

Do you not wear earplugs whilst in the club?

[@Jey_Reckless]

Isnt that totally complicated if everytime you get to a new venue you have to do this over and over again?

[@jonathanevans4623]

Oberbrot maybe! I'm no pro but templates like this are a godsend for a resident LD

[@djgstefan]

What's the song at 0:44?

[@danneedham6821]

Stefan Lindblom can't remember the track name, it's a benga track and will probably appear with a quick search!

[@danneedham6821]

Stefan Lindblom found it, benga ft coki, night

[@djgstefan]

Nice thanks!!!

[@ORGGStudios]

is this a Funktion One system? :o

[@turtlebot764]

What is the best type of potato. In a salad or plain

[@BartKrap]

TurtleBot on the bottom of a long post

[@papierbak]

Just casually drink driving.......

[@BytecodeOfficial]

Can you tell us whats in Macro 818 ? Would be nice :)

[@PeterNexelle]

Look at 13:30 in commandline

[@BytecodeOfficial]

Oh yeah right :D Thank you.

[@alvaropaz5069]

How to use SweetLight software

[@AceOfficial]

Why is the Zomboy set video removed ?!

[@ThemFunnyLookinGuys]

He says it in the video, it got copyrighted

[@Sagar_Mhatre]

when i patch blinder in grnadma2 on pc.....but there cums white light instead of yellow....

[@christianjackson]

+Sagar Mhatre thats how its supposed to be

[@bryantdavis8255]

Is white no color or all color? hmmmm

[@RGBReact]

he looks really stoned/high in this video so that explains it

[@Sagar_Mhatre]

What Is A Macro 818???

[@bxb6010]

White isn't a color????? TRIGGERED!!! Its ALL of of the colors!!! (when it comes to light at least)

[@StikyIckie]

Dude, I literally yelled that at my phone when he said that. I'd like to hear his argument against that.

[@shaquillefabri]

I hope there's a youtuber out there, that have the same content as you, but as a vj

[@EthanBenjamin]

FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MacMcClary]

Could you do essentially the same layout view for other parameters like beam and position?

[@christianjackson]

+MacMcClary yep

[@MacMcClary]

cool. loving the daily vlogs btw!

[@DjWooPig]

FIRST!

[@EthanBenjamin]

Beat you by 7 seconds man

[@aholder4471]

That's that shhhh....

[@syntheticfauna]

Do you know if the color matrix is proportional to the oposite equation on each instance??...nah! Just kidding, I don't know a shit about these light programs 😒

[@lgbvplatenkamp2177]

Heloooooo

[@RichardMaglov]

Hue hue hue

[@fuzzybee5988]

Don't drink and drive 😂😂

[@mexicalpango]

Dude for real if you wanna hook up in mexico cantact me

[@doreviews6185]

WHAT THE HELL IS THE SEQUENCE

[@Globerson]

I’m sure technology has advanced in the past 3 years but this is SO unnecessarily complicated.. Eos has been able to do this for years.