The FB4 export window is located under file, FB4 export. This window is used to export content from
your software to your FB4s for either autoplay mode or control from DMX. There are many types of
exported content. "Open existing" is if you have already done a previous export project you can
load that project and continue the export. Upload content pack is where you can upload content to
your FB4 for control from a console using the provided content packs. Test frames lets you
export test frames, use standard to use predefined frames or blank template to create your own test
frame file set. DMX FB3 workspace does the default arrangement using your current workspace
for when you control the FB4 in the FB3/16 channel mode. Use blank template to customize your export.
DMX FB4 workspace does the default arrangement using your current workspace for when you
control the FB4 in the FB4/39 channel mode, use blank template to customize your export.
Auto single files is for just automatic output when your FB4 is in auto mode, auto playlist
is an automatic output when your FB4 is in auto mode but instead of one cue it is a list of cues.
Auto daily schedule allows you to create schedules for your FB4 when it is in auto mode,
to schedule out automatic content on a daily basis.
Auto multi-day schedule allows you to create a schedule of content for your FB4 when it is in
auto mode but allows you to schedule out specific content for specific days far into the future.
Upload just lets you do it all manually if you already have files exported on your PC.
Now let's go through two types of export processes. First will be in
DMX FB4 workspace, blank template, click on DMX FB4 blank template and click ok. In this window you
will see all files in your workspace on the left, and where your outputs will be assigned in your
export on the right in their DMX indexes. Click on the different pages and drag content over,
you can also right click here and assign all cues in this page to the page on the right.
This will automatically fill it in with that page. Now we can click export, it will ask us to save
the export project to a file, name it as you wish. This will open up the export wizard and it will
guide you through the process, click next. First question will be whether or not you want to apply
workspace parameters to the cues when exported or if you want the cues to be full scale on export,
for DMX it's best to use "do not apply any correction" now we will select if we want
our content to be generic so all projectors connected receive the same data, or if you
want to use the workspace routing to output specific content to specific projectors, for
DMX it's best to use generic content. Here we'll select which connected FB4s we want to upload to.
Next we will decide if we want to just export to a local file on your PC or start upload
directly to the connected FB4. In this case we'll upload directly to the connected FB4.
Lastly we will decide where it will store the exported files on your local computer for later
use. Once you press next, beyond will render the cues out into files your FB4 can read and start
the upload. Once it's done rendering it'll open up a window saying it has completed and if we want to
watch the upload by showing the FB4 browser. You can just feel free to click complete and
the upload progress will be shown in the bottom bar. Now let's look at exporting an auto schedule,
click auto multi-day schedule and press ok, here like before we can drag content from the workspace
into the right but this time we have days of the week and when you drag it over it'll ask you
when you would like to start the cue and when to end. You can also add specific days when you want
to deviate from normal schedule, say you want a specific cue on Christmas next year you can do so.
Once we have the schedule as we would like we can click export.
Like before it'll ask us to save the project to a file, save it as you wish and start the export
wizard the choices in the export wizard are the same as the other export we did but we may want
to choose different options, like in this case we may have zoned our content using QuickShow and we
want to just use the exact zoning and positioning for our export so we will select apply color,
size, geometric correction, and bam, in this case and since we want it to be specific because of our
zoning we will click on "content intended to be used on specific projectors" then we select the
FB4, it will export to the connected FB4. With schedule we'll just have one other option which
is folder index, this is what you can select on your FB4 just save it to number one if there's
only one schedule you plan on putting on the FB4 and click export. The process is the same before.
Thank you for watching our "quick hints" video on theFB4 export window inside of QuickShow,
if you still need help you can contact our support
line by emailing support@pangolin.com and we'll help you as soon as possible