grandMA3 | MA Tips [EN] | Recast Preset

Adjusting presets is one of the jobs we have to do in the festival season. Look how the recast functionality can help you with that!
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[@efotfilmwilliamostman6681]

Hi, thanks for the great and informative videos!
Are there any plans of integrating a tool for controlling shapers, like the special dialog window for shapers in GrandMA2.
I work a lot with fixtures with shapers and finds it quite wierd that such a feature still hasent been implemented.

[@MALightingInt]

Yes there is definitely the plan to do it. We are currently working on it to show an improvement here in one of the next versions.

[@andrwwaugh]

Hey guys! Enjoying the videos and learning about new ma3 features
I was wondering if there were any plans to introduce pixel mapping from ndi anytime soon?
Planning a setup for festivals over the southern hemisphere summer, would love this feature for a bunch of the things I want to do
Weighing up between going with this platform or some of the other’s that have this already
I think this would be a killer addition to this platform, the ndi as it is, is very limited, but suggests it might be possible at some point..

[@MALightingInt]

Thank you so much for your feedback. In general things like pixel mapping functionality and also to make more use of NDI are definitely on our to do list. To say when it happens is always a bit difficult, but we are working on the next steps already. So let´s have a look together at the next versions, you will be definitely informed on our channels 🤘

[@bentoylight1950]

Do you know about a version 2.x ? Thank you.

[@MALightingInt]

Yes we are working on v2.0. It´s always hard to tell an exact date, but our plan is to know more by end of this year. We will definitely spread the information 😉

[@romarobot2452]

Why that function is manual? If I update the present I want new value and attributes to be update in seq automatically. That is the main idea of preset based programming. In which case lighting designer will want miss a new updated attributes in seq?

[@MALightingInt]

Hey, there are some reasons. So one is for sure to avoid that several cues change without intention by the operator. So the whole functionality is something new in the MA philosophy, so people might not expect automatic changes. Also there could be reasons due to your programming structure. For example you work a lot with all presets for different purposes, but you dont necessarily use them all as references for your cues.
At the end it is much about having different possibilities. We can definitely imagine an option in the future, to have this as an automatic function as well - so your wish for that makes absolute sense😊!

[@romarobot2452]

@MALightingInt
From my programming experience, it’s more likely that when I store something new into a preset, I want it to be updated in my sequences. That’s the main idea of a preset-based show. Anyway, is it possible to request a function (button) that can activate manual/auto recast for the linked parameters?
Also, I have an extra question. I’ve started using MA3 (onPC MAC) again and have already encountered a bunch of bugs. I’m definitely not happy with this, but I would still like to report them. How can I do that?