New manual

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Hugh - in your next revision -


You should show people how to do things with presets.
Showing people how to do tasks is always a much better way of writing a manual.
You can show people how to do 3 or 4 things - and they can figure out everything else for themselves.
Describing features one after another makes manuals unreadable and unuseable.

I have repeated this message to everyone who has attempted to do manual writing.

[samsc]

Presets are very important as their purpose is to remove the need for complex programming to be done on a lighting console - in certain situations.

There are very easy to set up and use, and hopefully much much easier to learn than to learn how to program a lighting console.

This is the approach that documentation needs to take.

You dont have to learn how to store and program cues, with complex parameters.
You can play back all parameters with great flexibility independantly of each other.
Presets are designed to be setup and used in seconds.

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these are the things you should show people..

you should show people they can do all the following from seperate presets:

1. fading a layer. without altering any other parameters.
2. fading a layer and changing other things.
3. loading a movie. without altering any other parameters.
4. loading a movie faded out, then fading it in.
5. playing with visual fx.
6. altering just visual fx.
7. moving the image in a layer.
8. moving the image to random positions.
9. moving the image in a circle, or a figure of 8.

10. storing or capturing all current parameters.
11. altering captured parameters.

12 setting up the keyboard to do different sets of things.
13. using keys to just alter certain parameters, like start and stop a movie.


etcetcetc