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www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 10 of 44 The Playback area is situated directly below the touch screen and consists of 10 playbacks

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 11 of 44 Starting a New Show On normal starting of MagicQ PC you are presented with the introducto

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 12 of 44 To start a new show press the NEW SHOW soft button. This will clear the current show fr

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 13 of 44 Enabling DMX Outputs To enable output of channel data select the DMX I/O VIEW in the Setu

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 14 of 44 Using network protocols Art-Net / ACN / Pathport. Change the Output Type to Art-Net, ACN

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 15 of 44 Patching Open the Patch Window by pressing the PATCH button. The Patch Window has three

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 16 of 44 In Normal or Hog II Warp mode you specify the number of heads you wish to patch followed b

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 17 of 44 The gel field uses gel numbers. For Lee colours enter the gel number directly (e.g. 181

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 18 of 44 Groups MagicQ automatically creates groups when Heads are patched – a group for each ty

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 19 of 44 Controlling Heads In order to control intelligent heads it is necessary to be able to sel

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 2 of 44 Quick Start Guide to MagicQ Software Introduction This document is intended to enable yo

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 20 of 44 Attributes are categorised into four types – Intensity, Position, Colour and Beam. On the

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 21 of 44 Each attribute is legended around the edge of the main window and can be modified indivi

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 22 of 44 In the Colour Window pressing the COL MIX / COL ATTRIBS button changes to the colour pi

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 23 of 44 Palettes The Position, Beam and Colour Windows contain a list of all the associated Posi

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 24 of 44 Setting levels for Dimmers MagicQ treats Dimmers as a head with only one attribute – Inte

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 25 of 44 Adding in FX To add a FX to some heads, select the heads then from the Group Window or th

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 26 of 44 Recording Recording a Cue To record a look onto a Cue, first set up the look, then press

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 27 of 44 In Theatre and Hog II Warp Modes the default timing is Cue Timing – individual Fade time

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 28 of 44 Saving your show MagicQ uses the hard disk to enable storage of a virtually infinite num

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 29 of 44 Troubleshooting If MagicQ is not operating as expected then press OUT to open the Output

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 3 of 44 Simple Generic Console / Test Technician “Simple mode” provides a simple interface for con

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 30 of 44 MagicQ software not responding Is the time changing in the status window? If the time is

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 31 of 44 Backup Archives By default MagicQ stores an archive of the show files for every quarter o

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 32 of 44 Tutorial 1 : Windows This tutorial introduces MagicQ, showing you how to open and close w

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 33 of 44 • Hold down CTRL and press the Palettes soft button to select the Palettes layout. The

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 34 of 44 Tutorial 2 : Soft Buttons & Encoders This tutorial explains how the soft buttons and

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 35 of 44 • Click on the top part of the X grey encoder wheel to increase the value of the encoder

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 36 of 44 Tutorial 3 : Starting a new show with moving lights This tutorial starts a new show and p

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 37 of 44 • Patching moving moving lights takes two steps – first choose the moving light, then se

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 38 of 44 Tutorial 4 : Starting a new show with dimmers This tutorial starts a new show and patches

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 39 of 44 • Patching dimmers takes two steps – first choose the dimmer, then second, patch it. Pr

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 4 of 44 Normal Mode The MagicQ Normal Mode is designed to be as similar to the MagicQ console layo

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 40 of 44 Tutorial 5 : Using Technician Test Mode This tutorial demonstrates how to test a fixture

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 41 of 44 • Use the Page Up and Page Down keys on your keyboard to go to move up and down the list

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 42 of 44 • The top 48 faders allow you to control the individual channels of the light. Hold the

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 43 of 44 Tutorial 6 : Recording a Cue and a Cue Stack This tutorial will show you how to record a

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 44 of 44 • Initially the Cue Stack has no name – so MagicQ displays the number of the Cue Stack

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 5 of 44 Touch Mode

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 6 of 44 Screen & Encoders On MagicQ the main operation is controlled through the central windo

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 7 of 44 Windows The area in the centre of the screen is the windows section in which the various c

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 8 of 44 In addition a complete configuration of windows called a Layout can be selected using CTRL

www.chamsys.co.uk MagicQ Software Quick Start 9 of 44 The area around the two large rotary encoders is referred to as the head control area. It