MA Lighting grandMA2 User Manual - page 885
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Assign Cue /mib=$mibvalue
Pressing the macro and the
Please
key, will disable MIB for the current cue, while pressing the macro, then a
number followed by Please, will set the MIB value for the current cue.
MIB timing
MIB uses two general time settings:
MIB Delay
and
MIB Fade
.
MIB Delay
is the time to wait from a fixture have faded out until it starts to MIB, while
MIB fade
is the actual time
used to preposition.
Increasing MIB Delay may be useful for fixtures with slow dimmer or afterglow. Increasing MIB Fade may be useful for
noisy fixtures, or if the movement of the fixture body is visually disturbing for the audience.
These two settings can be found in Setup -> Show -> Playback MIB Timing.
In addition to the general MIB timing, it is also possible via the
Fixture Types Editor
to set individual MIB Fade and it
is possible to disable MIB per Attribute per Fixture Type. It is also possible to disable MIB for each fixture. This can be
set in the
Fixture Editor pop-up
.
It is possible to set a MIB Delay for each "module definition" per Fixture Type.
MIB feedback
When MIB Delay is active, or MIB is "put on hold" the backlight of the executor keys will blink fast.
When MIB Fade is active (fixtures are moving to preposition), the backlight of the executor keys will blink slowly
Attributes which have positioned using MIB will be displayed in the ExecutorID and SequenceID layer of the Fixture
Sheet with a slightly paler shade of the usual background color (green for selected Executor, yellow for others), to
indicate that the source of the value is from a future cue. Please read more about the colors in the
Pitfalls
When using MIB, the desk is not only tracking values from earlier cues, it is also tracking forward and outputting
values from future, non-executed cues. This is sort of "Back to the Future", with dilemmas you find in time-travel-
theory.
Looking at the example above the fixture is turned on in cue 1 in a blue color, then it turns off in cue 2. In cue 4 it is
back on in a red color.
As we do not want to see the scroll to red in cue 4, we mark this cue as MIB Early.
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