Inhibitive Submasters - Group Masters

In Magic Q you can make a playback act as a "Master" for several things. Playbacks can be set to be an Intensity master for select fixtures, Size Master, Speed Master, Group Intensity master, and Intensity master to 200%

Select Fixtures Intensity Master:

  • with a clear Programmer, Select the fixtures you would like the Intensity master to effect. 
  • Give the Fixtures just an Intensity value, IE @Full 
  • Press "Record" and Choose an empty playback
  • Triple Tap the "S Button for that playback
  • Go to the "Function" tab
  • and set "Cuestack Is an Intensity Master" to "YES"
  • You should now see the playback it created has an "IM" after the PB# indicating it is an Intensity Master. 

Size Master:

  • with a clear Programmer, Select the fixtures you would like the Intensity master to effect. 
  • Modify the Attributes you would like to have the Size Master control, IE for Pan/Tilt choose a position 
  • Be sure that ONLY the attributes you want to control the size of are in the programmer
  • Press "Record" and Choose an empty playback
  • Triple Tap the "S" button for that playback, 
  • Go to the "Function" tab
  • and set "Cue stack Is an Size Master" to "YES"
  • You should now see the playback it created has an "SZM" after the PB# indicating it is an Intensity Master. 

Speed Master:

  • with a clear Programmer, Select the fixtures you would like the Intensity master to effect. 
  • Modify the Attributes you would like to have the Size Master control, IE for Pan/Tilt choose a position 
  • Be sure that ONLY the attributes you want to control the size of are in the programmer
  • Press "Record" and Choose an empty playback
  • Triple Tap the "S" button for that playback, 
  • Go to the "Function" tab
  • and set "Cue stack Is an Speed Master" to "YES"
  • You should now see the playback it created has an "SPM" after the PB# indicating it is an Intensity Master. 

Group Intensity Master:

  • with a clear Programmer, Select the Group you would like the Intensity master to effect. 
  • Leave the Programmer clear so only the fixtures are selected
  • Press "Record" and Choose an empty playback
  • You should now see the playback it created has an "IM" after the PB# indicating it is an Intensity Master.
  • This will also name the playback as "GM" then the name of that group

Group Size and Speed Masters & Group:

  • Once you create a Group master using the steps above, you can modify that into a Group size or speed master using the steps below.
  • Triple Tap the "S" button for that playback, 
  • Go to the "Function" tab
  • and set the playback as a Size or Speed master as outlined above
  • then set "Cue Stack is an Intensity Master" to "NO"
  • the "Group Attributes" field should now say "ALL"

  • You can use this Field to choose what Attribute set the master effects 

  • You should now see the playback it created has an "SPM" or "SZM" after the PB# indicating it is Size or Speed Master

Intensity Master to 200%:

This option can be used to over size the intensity of a master, this can allow you to override Intensity FX by Maxing out the intensity channel to 200% it's actual value

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