So, I think I'm am going to want to use dimming curves next year but I'm still a Vixen 2.1 user. So, they're not available yet.
I'm tossing around the idea of creating an AddIn to handle dimming curves. It would be a fairly ugly implementation but it should work. I'm also curious if anyone else would have any interest in this. I know Vixen 2.1 users are dwindling but I also know there are many of us who don't use Pixels, and, well, Vixen 2.1 is perfect for what we do.
Here are my thoughts so far(my very rough thoughts).
From a user stand point, in a sequence, you would open the addin and you would select to use dimming curves. I have to read up a little on how others are handling it, but I am thinking you would apply dimming curves to a Channel. Select the type(which would actually be the dimming curve on how that strand reacts) and then select the type that you would like it to act like(which would be a dimming curve of another type.
So, for example, For Channel 1, you might select that the lights are LED's and you would like then to act as incans.
None of these settings would do anything while doing normal sequencing but when you are finished and ready for the final product, you would apply the dimming curves. This would then save off a copy of the events(as a backup) and then change the events to the calculated values.
The real ugly part is that if you wanted to some major changes to the sequence you would have to run the addin and undo the changes, make your changes, then apply the changes again when you are finished.
I guess for this implementation I would need dimming curves of how incans generally react and another of how LED's generally react. Does anything like that exist already? I've done some searching(no a lot) and I haven't seen any yet but I'm sure the information is out there.
In my mind it doesn't sound like a hard AddIn to write. The hardest part would be how to get the curves/how to make your own curves. Maybe even an import/export feature if others are interested.
Any thoughts?
I'm tossing around the idea of creating an AddIn to handle dimming curves. It would be a fairly ugly implementation but it should work. I'm also curious if anyone else would have any interest in this. I know Vixen 2.1 users are dwindling but I also know there are many of us who don't use Pixels, and, well, Vixen 2.1 is perfect for what we do.
Here are my thoughts so far(my very rough thoughts).
From a user stand point, in a sequence, you would open the addin and you would select to use dimming curves. I have to read up a little on how others are handling it, but I am thinking you would apply dimming curves to a Channel. Select the type(which would actually be the dimming curve on how that strand reacts) and then select the type that you would like it to act like(which would be a dimming curve of another type.
So, for example, For Channel 1, you might select that the lights are LED's and you would like then to act as incans.
None of these settings would do anything while doing normal sequencing but when you are finished and ready for the final product, you would apply the dimming curves. This would then save off a copy of the events(as a backup) and then change the events to the calculated values.
The real ugly part is that if you wanted to some major changes to the sequence you would have to run the addin and undo the changes, make your changes, then apply the changes again when you are finished.
I guess for this implementation I would need dimming curves of how incans generally react and another of how LED's generally react. Does anything like that exist already? I've done some searching(no a lot) and I haven't seen any yet but I'm sure the information is out there.
In my mind it doesn't sound like a hard AddIn to write. The hardest part would be how to get the curves/how to make your own curves. Maybe even an import/export feature if others are interested.
Any thoughts?