The FB4 Export window is located under file> FB4 export.
This window is used to export content from your software to your FB4’s 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 to export.
Upload Content Pack is where you can upload content to your FB4 for control from a console
using 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 arrange ment 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 dates far
into the future.
Upload, just lets you do it all manually if you already have files exported on your PC.
Now lets go through two types of export processes, first will be a 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, and 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 weather 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 its 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 its best to use Generic content.
Here we will 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 your
upload directly to the connected FB4.
In this case we will upload directly to the connected FB4.
Lastly we will decide where BEYOND 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 its done rendering, it will 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 lets 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 will 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 the 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 will 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 BEYOND
and we actually want to just use that exact zoning and positioning for our export, so
we will select apply color, size, geometric correction, and BAM, in this case.
And since we do want it to be specific because of our zoning, we will click on “content
intended to be used on specific projectors”.
Select the FB4.
And we will export to the connected FB4.
With schedule we have one other option, which is a folder index, this is what you can select
on your FB4, just save it to number 1 if this is the only schedule you plan on putting on
the FB4.
And click export!
The process is the same as before.
Thank you for watching our quick hints video on the FB4 Export feature in BEYOND, if you
still need help, you can contact our support line by emailing support@pangolin.com.