- grandMA3 User Manual
- Introduction
- About the manual
- Symbols used in the manual
- Device Overview
- grandMA3 consoles
- grandMA3 replay unit
- grandMA3 processing units
- grandMA3 nodes
- grandMA3 onPC command wing
- grandMA3 onPC command wing XT
- Screen Allocation
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Keys
- . [Dot]
- <<< [GoFastBackward] | Black
- >>> [GoFastForward] | Flash
- - [Minus]
- + [Plus]
- / [Slash] | * [Asterisk/Multiply]
- At
- Assign
- Align
- Blind
- Clear
- Channel
- Copy
- Cue
- Down
- Delete
- Esc
- Edit
- Freeze
- Full
- Fixture
- Group
- Goto
- Go+ [large]
- Go- [large]
- Go+ | Temp
- Go- | Top
- Help
- Highlt [Highlight]
- If
- Learn | Rate1
- List
- MA
- Menu
- Move
- Next
- Numeric keys | arrows
- Oops
- On
- Off
- Pause [large]
- Pause | Fix
- Page+
- Page-
- Please
- Power
- Preset
- Prvw [Preview]
- Prev [Previous]
- Select
- SelFix [SelectFixture]
- Sequ [Sequence]
- Set
- Solo
- Stomp
- Store
- Thru
- Time
- Up
- Update
- U1
- U2
- X1 | Clone
- X2 | Link
- X3 | Grid
- X4 | Layout
- X5 | Step
- X6 | TC
- X7 | View
- X8 | DMX
- X9
- X10
- X11
- X12
- X13 | Phaser
- X14 | Macro
- X15 | Page
- X16 | Exec
- XKeys
- Control elements
- Dual encoders
- Level wheel
- Grand Master
- Executor elements
- Custom section
- Master section
- System Overview
- Standalone device
- Locally networked devices
- World server
- Parameters
- Calculate parameters
- Expand the amount of parameters
- First Steps
- Unpack the device
- Check scope of delivery
- Position the device
- Connect power
- Connect desk light
- Connect external screens
- Connect USB mouse and USB keyboard
- Connect DMX
- Connect Audio In
- Connect SMPTE (LTC)
- Connect Ethernet
- Connect DC Remote In
- Connect grandMA3 extension
- Turn on the console the first time
- grandMA3 onPC
- System requirements grandMA3 onPC
- Windows installation
- Optimize Windows
- macOS installation
- Optimize macOS
- Show File Management
- Workspace
- User interface
- Configuration of displays
- Desk lock
- User-defined area
- Command line
- Control bar
- View bar
- Tables in general
- Trackpad window
- Gestures
- Command section
- Master controls
- Playback controls
- Displays in grandMA3 onPC
- Encoder bar
- Feature group control bar
- Encoder toolbar
- Calculator
- Colors
- System
- Markers
- Color theme
- Icons
- User interface
- Command Syntax and Keywords
- General syntax rules
- Object keywords
- Function keywords
- Helping keywords
- All keywords
- / [Slash]
- . [Dot]
- .. [DotDot]
- = [Equal]
- <<< [GoFastBackward]
- >>> [GoFastForward]
- - [Minus]
- * [Asterisk]
- % [Percent]
- + [Plus]
- Absolute
- Acceleration
- Action
- ActivationGroup
- Align
- AlignTransition
- Appearance
- Assign
- At
- Attribute
- Black
- Blind
- Block
- BPM
- Camera
- Call
- ChangeDestination
- Channel
- ChannelSet
- Chat
- Clear
- ClearActive
- ClearAll
- ClearSelection
- Clone
- CmdDelay
- ColorTheme
- ColorThemeLibrary
- Configuration
- Console
- Copy
- Cue
- CueDelay
- CueFade
- CueInDelay
- CueInFade
- CueOutDelay
- CueOutFade
- CurrentUser
- CurrentUserProfile
- Cut
- DataPool
- Deceleration
- Decimal8
- Decimal24
- Default
- Delay
- Delete
- DelGlobalVar
- DelUserVar
- Dismiss
- Display
- DMXAddress
- DMXReadout
- DMXUniverse
- Down
- Drive
- Echo
- Edit
- EditOption
- Eject
- Effect
- EndIf
- Exchange
- Executor
- Export
- Extract
- Extension
- Fade
- FaderMaster
- FaderRate
- FaderSpeed
- FaderTemp
- FaderX
- FeatureGroup
- Filter
- Fix
- Fixture
- FixtureType
- FixtureTypeLibrary
- Flip
- Flash
- Fog
- Font
- Freeze
- Full
- GDTFLibrary
- Gel
- GetGlobalVar
- GetUserVar
- Global
- Go+
- Go-
- Goto
- Grid
- Group
- Help
- Hex8
- Hex24
- Highlight
- Houselights
- Hz
- If
- IfOutput
- Image
- Import
- Index
- Insert
- Integrate
- Interface
- Invert
- Invite
- IP
- Join
- Keyboard
- KeyboardShortcuts
- Knockin
- Label
- Language
- Layout
- LearnRate
- LearnSpeed
- Leave
- Library
- List
- ListOwner
- ListRef
- Load
- Loaded
- LoadShow
- Lock
- Login
- Logout
- Lowlight
- Lua
- Macro
- MacroLibrary
- Master
- MAtricks
- MAtricksPool
- Media
- Menu
- MenuLibrary
- Move
- MyRunningMacro
- MyRunningSequence
- NewShow
- Next
- Node
- NonDim
- Normal
- Off
- On
- OnPC
- OSC
- Oops
- Page
- Part
- Park
- Paste
- Patch
- Pause
- Percent
- PercentFine
- Phase
- Physical
- Plugin
- PluginLibrary
- Preset
- Press
- Preview
- Previous
- Programmer
- Property
- PU
- Pyro
- Rate1
- Readout
- Reboot
- Recast
- Relative
- Release
- ReloadPlugins
- ReloadUI
- Remote
- RemoteCommand
- Remove
- Reset
- Restart
- Root
- RTChannel
- RunningMacro
- RunningSequence
- SaveShow
- ScreenConfig
- ScreenContent
- Scribble
- Seconds
- Select
- Selection
- SelFix
- Sequence
- SendOSC
- Set
- SetGlobalVar
- SetUserVar
- Shutdown
- SnapDelay
- Shuffle
- SoundChannel
- Solo
- SpecialExec
- Speed
- Speed1
- Stage
- Station
- Step
- StepCreator
- StepRecipe
- Stomp
- Store
- Temp
- Thru
- Timecode
- Toggle
- Top
- Transition
- Unblock
- Unlock
- Unpark
- Unpress
- Up
- Update
- User1
- User2
- User
- UserProfile
- Version
- View
- ViewButton
- Width
- World
- Zero
- General syntax rules
- Windows, Views, and Menus
- Add windows
- Rearrange
- Store and recall views
- Remove windows from a screen
- Window settings
- Menus
- Change menu locations
- Pool windows
- Create pool object
- Label pool objects
- Move pool objects
- Insert pool objects
- Copy pool objects
- Lock and unlock pool objects
- Delete pool objects
- Networking
- Interfaces and IP
- Session
- Create a session
- Leave a session
- Invite to a session
- Dismiss from session
- Create a custom key
- Web remote
- DMX In and Out
- DMX port configuration
- Ethernet DMX
- Art-Net menu
- sACN menu
- Transmit DMX using Art-Net
- Single User and Multi User Systems
- Create User
- User settings
- Patch and Fixture Setup
- What are fixtures
- Add fixtures to the show
- MVR
- Live patch
- DMX sheet
- DMX universes
- Remove fixtures from the show
- Position fixtures in the 3D space
- 3D Window
- Camera Pool
- Stages
- Classes and Layers
- Attribute definitions
- Activation group
- Feature group
- Operate Fixtures
- What is the programmer
- Fixture sheet
- Using the color picker
- Selection bar
- Align
- Selection Grid
- Smart view
- Scribbles
- Create scribbles
- Edit scribbles
- Assign scribbles
- Delete scribbles
- Images
- Screenshots
- Appearance
- Create appearances
- Use appearances
- Delete appearances
- Groups
- Create groups
- Edit groups
- Delete groups
- Group masters
- Presets
- Preset pools
- Create presets
- Assign input filter
- Edit presets
- Update presets
- Preset pool settings
- Embedded presets
- Store values of multi steps
- Delete presets
- Worlds and Filters
- At filter
- Create a world
- Create a filter
- Use a world or filter
- Delete a world
- Delete a filter
- MAtricks and Shuffle
- Blocks
- Groups
- Wings
- Widths
- Shuffle
- Cues and Sequences
- What is tracking
- Look at cues and sequences
- Sequence settings
- Store cues
- Update cues
- Store options and preferences
- Play back cues
- Move in black
- Cue timing
- Renumber cues
- Executors
- Assign object to an executor
- Executor configurations
- Running playbacks
- Masters
- Selected masters
- Grand masters
- Time Control
- Speed masters
- Playback masters
- Phasers
- Step bar
- Phaser editor
- Create sinus dimmer phaser
- Create circle phaser
- Create circle phaser around position
- Create color rainbow phaser
- Step creator
- Macros
- Create macros
- Edit macros
- Assign macros to keys and buttons
- Timecode
- Record a timecode show
- Edit a timecode show
- Timecode settings
- Toggle view mode
- What are timecode slots
- Layouts
- Create a layout
- Layout pool settings
- Edit layout
- Layout view settings
- Edit layout view
- Edit layout elements
- Plugins
- What is Lua
- Data Pools
- System
- Date and time
- Clock
- System information
- Control Other MA Devices
- Update the Software
- Update grandMA3 consoles
- Update grandMA3 xPort Nodes
- Update grandMA3 onPC command wing XT
- Network update
- Fixture Types
- Import fixture types
- Import GDTF
- Build fixture types
- Insert fixture types
- Insert DMX modes
- Insert geometries
- Insert models
- Link models to geometries
- Link DMX modes to geometries
- Export fixture types
- Export GDTF
- Import fixture types
- Introduction
- grandMA3 Quick Manual consoles
- grandMA3 Quick Manual processing
- grandMA3 Quick Manual nodes
- grandMA3 Quick Manual DIN-Rail
- grandMA3 Quick Manual onPC command wing XT
- grandMA3 Quick Manual onPC command wing
- Release Notes
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Images
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All imported images are in the Image Pool. The image pool is like most other pools - read about pools in general in the Pool windows topic.
Important:
The overall size of the image pool has a maximum of 200MB.
The overall size of the image pool has a maximum of 200MB.
We advise that you keep the image pool as small as possible. For example, keep the maximum image size per image below 64MB. Do not exceed an image resolution higher than 1920 x 1080.
Images can be used for appearances. Read more in the Create appearances topic.
Import Predefined Images
There are some predefined test pattern images that can be used. Custom images can also be imported - read below.
Workflow:
Images can be imported using the command line.
- Navigate to the custom image pool:
User name[Fixture]> ChangeDestination Image "custom"
- Now import the predefined library images:
User name@ShowData/ImagePools/Custom> Import lib "*.xml"
This command imports the image files from MA into the image pool.
- Return to the command line root:
User name@ShowData/ImagePools/Custom> ChangeDestination Root
Hint: Use syntax shortcut "CD" for "ChangeDestination"
Requirement
The images need to be in a specific folder. The folder in the console is /actual/shared/resource/lib_images
On a USB stick it is grandMA3\shared\resource\lib_images
Workflow:
Images can be imported using the Image pool.
- Edit an empty pool object.
- Tap the Import button.
- Change the drive to the desired source using the Drive button in the title bar.
- Select the desired image.
- Tap Import.
- Close the Edit Image pop-up.
Before closing the Edit Image pop-up it is possible to edit the name.
Delete Image From the Pool
Deleting images is like deleting any other pool object. The image disappears in any appearance where it might be used.
There are three common ways to delete the images.
Delete an Image Using the Command Line
The important keyword for this is: Delete.
This is the syntax for deleting a single image:
Delete Image image_number
It is also possible to delete a range of images using the standard range syntax (Thru, +, and -).
For example, if image 4 needs to be deleted:
User name[Fixture]> Delete Image 4
Or if image 5 to 10 needs to be deleted:
User name[Fixture]> Delete Image 5 Thru 10
Delete an Image Using the Image Pool on a Screen
Requirement:
A visible image pool on one of the screens.
- Press the Delete button.
- Tap the image in the pool.
The image is deleted.
Delete an Image Using the Swipey Commands
Requirement:
A visible image pool on one of the screens.
- Tap and hold the image you wish to delete.
- Swipe out of the pool object without releasing the screen.
- Swipe to the Delete swipey and release the screen.
The image is deleted.