Accompanying the software release are new playback and programming wings, with a new console to follow in the near future. For those of you not familiar with it, Vista is a lighting control system that comes in both a physical console with a Wacom pen-controlled touchscreen interface as well as Mac and Windows software versions.
Vista provides a unique paradigm to lighting control with its timeline method of creating cues. Patching is very straightforward, using either a dialog box-style method of patching multiple fixtures or a drag-and-drop method of patching. Patched fixtures show up on a fixture chooser window. Fixtures are automatically added to the fixture chooser when patched; the user can arrange their icons in any way they desire to represent their rig visually.
You can import an image into this window as well, such as a line drawing of your stage, which is used as a background image on which to place your fixture icons. For simpler stage plots, I like to place the fixture icons at the locations where that fixture illuminates. Others, especially for a complex rig, may want to position their fixtures where they are physically located in the room, with truss and lighting pipes drawn in the background image--or some combination of these strategies.
Whatever works best for you and your volunteers. You can have multiple pages of fixture layouts as well, to make it easier to control complex rigs. This visual method of representing the stage plot makes it fast and simple for users to select the fixtures they want to work with and program cues. As you create cue lists, each cue list can be represented in the fixture chooser window as a new tab, showing the same layout as the live tab, but with a space at the top added showing the cues in the cue list laid out horizontally.
When you click on a box representing a cue, you are working on the lighting settings within that cue. You can set cue timings as a whole all events take place in x seconds ; specific to attributes fades are four seconds; color change is one second; position change is 10 seconds ; or on a per-event basis using the Timeline window.
In the timeline you can easily tweak the timing of any attribute of any fixture, individually, by dragging the bars that represent changes in that attribute. This works very well, is intuitive to new lighting volunteers, and is very efficient. Vista has all the traditional features that make working with moving lights and color changing fixtures easy: presets, groups, fanning, etc.
Vista 3 has added the ability to merge information from a show file into your current show. Of particular interest, you could have a show file that has cue lists created for the songs you use, and then import just the song cue lists that you need for your upcoming service into your current show file. This lets you keep your weekend service show file small and tidy, and seems to work well.
If you are importing a song into an empty show file, you do need to tell it to import fixtures as well, so you get the patch. The fixture chooser window has gotten a facelift, with the fixture icons being more representative of the style of the actual fixture.
For example, up to 11 colors of emitters are now supported in the color engine. Effects can now be assigned to Effect Masters, which in turn can be assigned to hardware faders or encoders.
This lets you do things like control the rate of a strobe, or the rate of a color-changing effect, from a fader on a virtual console window, physical console, or a wing. The command line interface for Vista has also been expanded, enabling those who prefer a command line approach to programming cues to do so.
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