Thursday, November 18, 2021
Personalize your programming workflow with ETC’s Eos v3.1 software
LightSoundJournal.com: ETC’s Eos Family of lighting controllers is known for providing comprehensive, finely tuned control for lighting rigs of all sizes. Now, with the release of Eos v3.1 – the latest major software update for the platform – that control becomes even more customizable to suit any programming style or show. Eos v3.1 is all about you, with new tools that help you set up your workspaces – programming, 3D-visualized, and physical – just the way you want them.
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I am so excited to start using 3.1 on all of my next shows. This is a pretty awesome update for this software that has some really great new features available. I really love direct selects and I think the new custom direct select page is going to be so helpful for efficiently programming during cue writing and tech. Instead of having to configure your displays in a really precarious way, you can just create your own page of custom direct selects in any fashion you want with whatever parameters you want. This is one of the features I am most looking forward to using. I also think it was great that ETC made it so you can save your show and the undo history won’t delete like it used to. I like to constantly save my show, but this would come back to bite me when I tried to undo something and couldn’t because saving cleared my undo history. I think this update will be super beneficial for programmers of all levels.
I will admit, I have heard mixed reviews of this new update. Just from purely what I have heard, they may have overextended themselves and their software in this update as I have heard stories of everything from glitches and bugs to just being generally underwhelmed by the updates that are in this new software. Now, saying that, in text this seems extremely cool. It seems especially cool when it comes to the kind of User Interface updates that have been made. Whenever I really got into the swing of programming, really hacking away at the show, fingers flying across the board, it was always the small UI based things that would trip me up so the personalization prospect is really intriguing to me. Additionally, I do have a hard time visualizing what exactly the 3D aspect would look like, but just the most baseline idea sounds so incredible.
I honestly still don’t know how I feel about the Augment3D features. Sure, I love the idea of being able to visualize from home but at the same time is it really the same as cueing in person. Over the past year, I’ve personally thought over where the industry has been moving. It is moving to a less collaborative state within the tech world, and I don’t know how I feel about it. The new technology that is being produced is pushing technicians farther and farther into the dark in my opinion. Spending hours updating our systems and learning new fixes and bug edits. Don’t get me wrong I find this all fascinating and love the technology but to what extent? I’ve always enjoyed lighting and the technology behind it to use it for a purpose but I think there is only so far that you need to go. I guess I say this all as an inexperienced programmer but more and more work that I see produced in venues is all the same… people trying to use the technology and show off the technology rather than showing off the show at hand. I am looking forward to seeing these new updates continue to develop within the software line, but I am also worried that ETC may be losing its touch/roots with their product line
Yay, software updates! For me personally I think the best features out of this (I’ve downloaded and played around with the update a bit, although obviously have not done a show on it) are the custom direct selects and the better timecode integration, both of which I had found myself wanting for previously. I use direct selects all the time but the locked-in layout has been a source of frustration - I think this will help with the programming flow immensely. Also agree with James that maintaining undo history when you save is a great feature. It’s something you don’t think about 99% of the time, until you screw something up and then curse yourself, but the fix is a great optimization. I’m sure there are lots of bugs to be worked out, as there always are during releases of software updates, but those will improve with time as usual. Nice to see some updates to Augment3d as well - it came out at really the perfect time during covid, and while I personally hate setting it up and would vastly prefer to just be working in person, it’s a really useful piece of software.
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