Phantom Channels or "hidden" channels
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Topic: Phantom Channels or "hidden" channels
Posted By: kalifi
Subject: Phantom Channels or "hidden" channels
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2008 at 7:05pm
I imported a sequence from Spectrum over to Aurora. I have some
channels that cannot be seen on the left with all the channel listings
but during playback to lights...the programmed commands show up. I
cannot get the channels to show up so that I can edit the channels. I
did not realize this either until quite a bit into the sequencing that
I was doing so I fear all of the sequencing I did will be for not
because I will have to scrap the sequence because of the phantom
channels. Suggestions? Is this a bug? |
Replies:
Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2008 at 8:14pm
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Did you import spectrum sequences that contained Virtual Controllers? ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
Posted By: kalifi
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2008 at 9:03pm
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No, I didn't. I did mess with it a little. Because the commands were still showing up I took a gander. I "added" channels that matched the "phantom" ones labeling them appropriately and viola, the channel picked up the commands and showed them exactly as they were playing. The commands showed up in the proper channel and no need to redo stuff. So the info was in the sequence but just not showing in the "editor". Once I added the channels that the import didn't add it was exactly as it should have been. Thank goodness it was only 4 channels that went phantom. No extra sequencing needed and nothing lost.  Thanks for responding. |
Posted By: Jonathan
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2008 at 6:41pm
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That recently happened to me as well when I imported a sequence from Spectrum. The only thing I had done differently on that import vs other imports was that I hadn't named my channels yet, they were just Track 1, Track 2, etc. All three controllers were the same way, and for whatever reason, only the first 16 channels showed up. However, once I imported channels from my template file I made just for Aurora, everything popped up just as it should be. The only thing I can think of was that each one of my three controllers had the exact same name for the 16 channels. Fortunately, my sequence was intact, and it did not need to be reloaded.
------------- ~Jonathan |
Posted By: jberner
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2008 at 1:55pm
| There are posts in other forums that mention the same. When importing channels from Spectrum, make sure that all of your channels are uniquely named prior to doing the import. |