Designer 2 Tutorials

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• Getting Started: Overview
• Downloading Designer 2 from the Pharos website
• Installing Designer 2
• Reviewing basic parts of the user interface
• Project Features tab
• RightClick and Shortcuts
• Opening a separate window
• Saving files & Software revisioning
• Support of multiple instances
• Pharos Designer 2 and Pharos hardware dependencies

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• Getting Started 2: Timelines
• Adding presets to a timeline
• Showing and adjusting transitions
• Saving user presets
• Simulate a timeline
• Applying presets to groups or individual fixtures
• Transparency
• Simulate a project
• Holding at end and repeat
• Creating and mangaing timelines
• Groups effects – fixture order

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• Getting Started 3: Mapping
• Duplicate Fixtures window
• Creating a matrix
• Manipulating a matrix
• Filtering presets and applying a matrix preset to a timeline
• Simulating a matrix preset and real-time matrix adjustment
• Preset to timeline row compatibility
• Importing media and media preset parameters
• Fast-forward simulation
• Duplicating a matrix, fixture overlapping
• Simulate the same preset to different matrices

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• Getting Started 4: Layout and Fixtures
• Adding a background
• Grid options and overlay colours
• Fixture Properties
• Transform Tools
• Zooming and minimap
• Creating and managing layouts
• Copying vs cloning fixtures
• Remove from layout vs delete fixtures
• Fixture library and cloud library
• Creating a fixture template
• Adding different fixtures to a layout
• Creating a scene for automated lighting
• Selecting a section from multi-element fixtures
• Adding scenes to a timeline

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• Getting Started 5: Patch
• Patching concept
• Adding universes
• Adjusting preferences
• Tree view explained
• Channel usage
• Double patching
• Show patched on
• Deleting fixtures

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• Getting Started 6: Trigger
• Collapsing triggers
• Conditional logic flow
• Creating basic triggers: Startup, Digital Input, Real Time
• Simulate triggers
• Condition example
• Ethernet input trigger / system integration
• Project features to display more triggers, conditions and actions
• Introduction to IO Modules
• Copying actions
• Variables
• Enabling variables
• Scripting

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• Getting Started 7: Hardware
• Introduction to Pharos hardware
• Connecting an LPC
• Network settings – 3 examples
• Controller colours in Designer
• Changing the IP address of a controller
• Updating firmware
• Connecting a TPC
• Connecting a TPC+EXT
• Connecting LPC X, VLC or VLC+

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• Getting Started 8: Upload
• Network tab and discovered controllers
• Configuring interfaces (Ethernet, Serial, Inputs)
• Assigning a second IP address / configure data network port for 19″ controllers
• Interface and Protocol data – link to controller
• Associating a controller
• Uploading a project
• Highlight on layout / patch (Tool available after upload)
• RDM discovery and addressing (Tool available after upload)
• Output Live (Tool available after upload)
• Setting controller location and other project information
• Setting controller time and timezone
• Customising a project wizard
• Adding an EXT to a TPC

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• Getting Started 9: Web Interface
• Opening the web interface
• Project status tab
• Log tab
• Output tab
• Input tab
• Network tab
• Control tab
• Control using conditions
• File Manager tab
• Configuration tab
• Custom Web Interface Theme
• Custom Web Interface
• Saving and downloading a file from the controller

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• Getting Started 10: Touch Input
• Project example walkthrough
• Creating an interface using New Interface wizard
• Button properties
• Button key
• Touch Button event trigger
• Changing Touch Contol state
• Adding a new page
• Page Switcher
• Adding control elements manually, change size, position and parameters
• Adding images to a button
• Slider Key and Slider / Colour button triggers
• Linking an interface to a touch device
• Interface properties
• Theme Editor
• Master screen settings

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• Getting Started 11: Scaling a system
• Scaling possibilities
• Adding remote devices to a project
• Adjusting remote device properties
• Connecting remote device hardware
• Network row colours explained
• Rio Firmware upload and IP configuration
• RIO rotary wheel and association
• Adding a controller to the project
• Adjusting controller interface properties
• Linking remote devices and controllers
• Beacon function
• Setting triggers in a multi controller / remote device project
• Enabling Trigger Controller Edit
• Using Pharos to link different systems
• Patching in multi controller systems
• Patching on multiple controllers does not affect groups, zoning or synchronisation

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• Getting Started 12: VLC & VLC+
• General introduction
• Adding a VLC and VLC+ to an existing project
• Associating a VLC
• VLC/VLC+ and Layouts
• Layout resolution
• Duplication feature, including patching
• VLC mapping: Composition
• VLC: Creating an additional instance of a composition
• VLC: Patching
• VLC: Timelines
• Simulate a VLC timeline on two compositions
• VLC: Trigger Set Content Target Blur
• Uploading to a VLC
• VLC Live Video web interface
• VLC+: Layout
• VLC+: Compositions and content targets
• VLC+: Masks
• VLC+: Timelines
• VLC+: Simulate
• VLC+: Trigger Rotation and Movement

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• Getting Started 13: DALI
• Two different ways to use DALI
• DALI Interfaces vs DALI ports, creating an interface
• DALI bus power
• DALI triggers
• DALI actions
• Adding DALI devices to a layout
• DALI fixture properties
• DALI tab explained, including addressing and patching
• Creating DALI groups
• Creating DALI scenes
• Including DALI in Pharos Designer scenes, output live
• DALI and timelines
• Adjusting timeline background colour
• Website resources
• Training sessions
• Support contact