User Guide

Pearl 2000 November 1999 release notes - page 1
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Contents
1. INTRODUCTION 3
2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 3
3. HOW TO UPGRADE 4
3.1 How to ENTER the AVOS SYSTEM 4
3.2 How to upgrade the AVOS to Pearl 2000 from version 1.7 4
3.3 How to install the August 1999 AVOS 4
3.4 How to install the Pearl 2000 November 99 Software 5
3.5 How to carry out a Hard WIPEALL 5
3.6 How to carry out a Soft WIPEALL 5
3.7 How to cache the built-in personality files 6
4. WHAT’S NEW IN THE PEARL 2000 NOVEMBER 99 SOFTWARE 6
4.1 More Dimmers and Fixtures 6
4.2 Theatre Functions 6
4.3 AVOLITES menu. 6
4.4 New VDU screens 7
4.5 Takeover after GO 7
4.6 Enhanced script files 7
4.7 Disk import from the Azure 2000 and the Sapphire 2000 8
4.7.1 Azure show disk import details: 8
4.7.2 Sapphire 2000 show import details: 9
4.8 IMPORT the Visualiser Patch 9
4.9 Visualiser interface 10
4.10 DMX in 10
4.11 Millennium Date compliance 10
4.12 Shape Offset 10
4.13 Release notes display 11
5. RECORD OPTIONS EXPLAINED 11
5.1 Record by CHANNEL 11
5.1.1 New Scene 11
5.1.2 Updating a Scene 11
5.2 Record by FIXTURE 11
5.2.1 New Scene 11
5.2.2 Updating a Scene 11
5.3 Record by STAGE 12
6. OTHER FIXES & ENHANCEMENTS 12
7. THEATRE STACK 13
7.1 Theatre stack playback Faders. 13
7.2 Entering and Exiting Theatre Mode 13
7.3 Step numbers 13
7.4 Theatre Stack programming menu 14
7.4.1 [A] ADVANCED 14
7.4.2 [CHANNEL] 15
7.4.3 [C] SET TIMES 17
7.4.4 [D] RECORD 17
7.4.5 [E] SET LEGEND 17
7.4.6 [F] Cut To Live 17
7.4.7 [G] QUIT 17
7.4.8 [DELETE] 17
7.5 Playback Options 17