RGB issues

While I haven't seen this before, this functionality is completely rewritten in the upcoming release, so hopefully whatever you are experiencing will not be a problem soon.

I still do not have an ETA on the upcoming release.  "Sometime in September" remains the target.

In the 2 worst cases what I discovered is that since the sequence shortened very slightly through a switch from audio only to video (cutting some of the dead space at the end slightly) there were timing events after the end of the sequence. I changed the properties back to the audio only file and discovered these, deleted the timing markers, X'd the channels, switched back to the slightly shorter video file and in most cases the channel shimmering went away.  One sequence has the shimmer now on only 1 of the RGB sets after the last timing marker and setting the end on this channel to black seems to be a work-around.

What I also ended up finding is, or was, I believe related to importing of a sequence - I forget what version it was when I did the original import from LOR. But there were events on the device (in my case device ID #1) that were hidden somewhere inside the sequence. It was just as if there were 2 controllers on the same ID within the sequence and the hardware was receiving the signals from both the visible (in the sequencer) and the hidden or ghosted controller. I even tried setting the RGB to black and was still getting all kinds of activity on the RGB lights themselves, ONs, OFFs, Shimmers, and Twinkles - drove me crazy.

I noticed that channel 1 issue too when I imported from a template file.  I've been checking it whenever I do that import channels..  I usually just import from a sequence I know to be good and use that as the template - but I still check the rgb setting after the import channels..  I had 4 out of 34 sequences that caused me problems and seems to have been different combinations of things that caused the problems. Nothing seem to really be common across the problematic sequences other than teh channel 1 thing you mentioned importing channels from another file. Unknowingly I saved the file and discovered I had 16 channels on a single controller all set to channel 1 when I started to test it with the lights. Don't know it that screwed something in the sequence data for that controller.

Thanks for the news.  I've been able to work around and issues and have 35 sequences upgraded or newely created for the 2009 show. They all appear to look pretty good. All have BIG video files and that's been working ok too.