Spend half as much time programming on MA2 with this file!

I have always wanted a showfile I could take with me to save time when having to make cue heavy show. So I have taken the time to make this and share it with you all to hopefully help everyone out! If you have any questions, feel free to make a comment and I will do my best to help you out!
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Patching
01:24 - Auto Create
01:43 - Creating color palettes
02:24 - Layout view
03:33 - Positions
08:49 - Positions in other programming window
12:40 - Parking / Unparking fixtures
13:25 - How to use the pre-built effects
15:42 - Adding new fixtures / changing fixture types
17:41 - Adding colors to new fixtures
18:22 - Taking selection of an effect
18:59 - Speed Masters
22:22 - Setting effect speed via command in a cue
24:14 - Outro
Showfile Download: www.dropbox.com/s/g484bojarcw...
Layout Views: • How to use MA2 - Layouts
Worlds: • How to use MA2 - Worlds
Speed & Size Masters: • How to use MA2 - Speed...
Tutorial Playlist: • MA2 Tutorials
Instagram: / taylor.copland_
Discord: / discord
Other Channel: / @dj_echooo
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  • @Reazintful
    @Reazintful Жыл бұрын

    pro tip, if you prefer clicking on every beat on a 4 count, change the rate of the effect. all my effects i immediately change rate to .25 unless, but will sometimes change the rate of each effect to the speed of my liking, ill usually play something at a bpm and go over my rates so that all FX specifically look good together at the same bpm. with some meant to be double time and so on.

  • @LarsUlrich-qq7gu
    @LarsUlrich-qq7gu Жыл бұрын

    Taylor, you have the gift to explain things in such an easy way. This is pure gold! Thank you!!!!!

  • @Taylor-Copland

    @Taylor-Copland

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! I’m glad I’m able to teach these topics in a way that makes sense to you!

  • @VStreln
    @VStreln Жыл бұрын

    I get such quantity and quality of knowledge only from you! And all this in such accessible and short videos! Thank you!

  • @Taylor-Copland

    @Taylor-Copland

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for being so supportive! I try my best to give y’all all the knowledge I know!

  • @antoniodebreczeni2860
    @antoniodebreczeni28604 ай бұрын

    Thank you Taylor, you are amaizing!

  • @dukemoita
    @dukemoita Жыл бұрын

    Excellent tutorial, "easy way is the best way" Thanks!!

  • @rajakaz4075
    @rajakaz4075Ай бұрын

    Amazing video! Thanks a lot!

  • @rhysnewling
    @rhysnewling Жыл бұрын

    This is an elite move my friend

  • @pathogenocide01
    @pathogenocide01 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent information here, thanks! Subscribed !

  • @Taylor-Copland

    @Taylor-Copland

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much!

  • @timob.7569
    @timob.7569 Жыл бұрын

    Another awesome video, thanks for sharing your knowledge and showfile! 🙂I haven't tried it yet, but will definitely do so! What was also new for me: The thing with the fixed speed via command in the cue...nice!

  • @Taylor-Copland

    @Taylor-Copland

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Setting the speed via command is super useful! I’m glad I was able to teach you something new! Let me know what else you would like to learn about and I’ll make a video on it. 👍🏼

  • @timob.7569

    @timob.7569

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Taylor-Copland thank you too! 🙂 I'm still relatively at the beginning of my "MA2 learning process", but I'm sure I'll have lots of questions in the future! 😀 Right now, two things come to my mind: 1.) As already mentioned in your other video, a size master fader for move effects would be nice. 2.) I would like to control the fade time between positions (cue stack on executor) on the fly via a fader. For this the exec time seems to be a good tool. Problem: Then all executors react to this exec time, which can be annoying. Therefore I have to activate "ignore exec time" in the assign menu for all other executors. This is also a bit time consuming. Is there a better way? 🙂

  • @speedyg2295
    @speedyg22958 ай бұрын

    That was a very good video.

  • @MisterMotion
    @MisterMotion Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic Quality. Subbed after 30 Seconds..

  • @Taylor-Copland

    @Taylor-Copland

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the sub! I’m glad you found my content useful!

  • @askittsutube
    @askittsutube Жыл бұрын

    You are the man! Keep it up

  • @Taylor-Copland

    @Taylor-Copland

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! I have a lot more stuff I want to share and teach everyone!

  • @askittsutube

    @askittsutube

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Taylor-Copland I found that worlds for Pan / tilt speed up position programming even more

  • @SteeveBrusco
    @SteeveBrusco Жыл бұрын

    If you delete colors what can you do to get effect working again ? Thank you for this excellent tutorial!

  • @Taylor-Copland

    @Taylor-Copland

    Жыл бұрын

    The color FXs will break if you delete a color preset. To fix this, you will have to set the high/low value in the color fx to the color you desire. And you are very welcome!

  • @Reazintful

    @Reazintful

    Жыл бұрын

    put the colors back to where they were before, effects access the color preset by the number location, so if you add back the color preset to the default places they were in at the start, they will work again, or as he said, just add new presets to the high and low value.

  • @bryanhorton467
    @bryanhorton4676 ай бұрын

    THANK YOU for these quality tutorials! I'm new to programming and have found your videos to be very easy to follow along with and I've already learned a lot going through your tutorial playlist. I've downloaded your showfile, however I am unable to load into MAonPC. It's downloaded as a .show file and I can't seem to get MA to recognize it. Digging through some Reddit posts I found if you just add ".gz" to the end of the .show file MA is supposed to recognize it. When I do that all it does is re-zips the file. Any recommendations to get this working?

  • @Taylor-Copland

    @Taylor-Copland

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much! And I’m so sorry for the late response. What version of MAonPC are you running?

  • @stephensmyth3138

    @stephensmyth3138

    4 ай бұрын

    Try changing the file extension to show.gz then placing it in your show gma2/shows folder

  • @mohamedasmar2083
    @mohamedasmar20833 ай бұрын

    hi, i downloaded the showfile and open it but theres nothing in it? can you please advice me on what should i do

  • @steadiric
    @steadiric2 ай бұрын

    Hi Taylor, I can't download the show file..

  • @happylighting976
    @happylighting9766 ай бұрын

    hi bro why your file not show in ma grand ma pc? what are doing wrong?

  • @tristanbuet321
    @tristanbuet3219 ай бұрын

    Amazing Work. One thing I don't get: Why don't you generate your "final" positions using the "pan only" and "tilt only" presets we already merged ? Something like (for each final position): BlindEdit On; ClearAll; Group 1; At Preset 2.3; At Preset 2.12; Store Preset 2.25 /m /nc; ClearAll; BlindEdit Off; That would be a nice lil macro to run, populating most of our final positions presets ! I might add my own macros for busking (thus, auto-creating a colorpicker using your presets, etc). Tell me if you're interested ?

  • @zivgruber2864
    @zivgruber286411 ай бұрын

    I've downloaded your file to try it out. When I load (ONLY YOUR) file, Preset 3 (Gobos) and Preset 7 (Control) do not show up. Why is that?

  • @tristanbuet321

    @tristanbuet321

    9 ай бұрын

    Thats really Odd. Did you check all boxes when loading the show, except network protocols and settings ?

  • @vinodgs1919
    @vinodgs19195 ай бұрын

    I tried to loads the show file, but Error isshowing up saying, file name contains illegal character

  • @Taylor-Copland

    @Taylor-Copland

    4 ай бұрын

    What ma2 version are you using?

  • @kmwaterproofing5484
    @kmwaterproofing54843 ай бұрын

    what version of software must the console be

  • @Taylor-Copland

    @Taylor-Copland

    3 ай бұрын

    This will work on the latest software of MA2