UCI Customization
| Site: | QSC |
| Course: | Q-SYS Level 1 Cinema Training |
| Book: | UCI Customization |
| Printed by: | Guest user |
| Date: | Saturday, 23 November 2024, 8:16 PM |
Description
Video Transcript
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Now that you know the basic steps of creating and managing a UCI, it’s time to add your own content.
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You can add controls, indicators, graphic objects, as well as your own custom images from other applications.
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You can simply copy and paste one or multiple objects from the Schematic Page in your UCI.
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So let’s go back to our Schematic Page and grab all of these controls.
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Now it’s important to note that you can’t drag a component itself into its UCI
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but you can add its control elements enabling full control of any component.
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So let's copy that (Control+C) and then go back to our UCI and (Control+V) to paste these. It's also important to note,
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there are a few controls which aren’t functional in a UCI, such as the response graphs in the RTA,
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Equalizers and Dynamics, and all of these are listed in the Help file.
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All of your Graphic Tools work in the UCI so you can create Text Boxes, Headers, Group Boxes, and Polygons.
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If you’re unfamiliar with these tools, check out Software Overview at qsctraining.com.
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Now that’s all well and good but here comes the exciting part.
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You can add outside images to your UCI to make it look even better.
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To do this all you need to do is drag your completed item into your UCI control.
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Let’s go ahead and resize this. In fact if you load a graphic that has a transparency like this one,
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you can build some pretty interesting button shells. You’ll notice that this has a transparency through the middle.
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This hole is punched out, so if we draw our own button with this polygon tool
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let's kind of draw around the outside of it, there we go. That’s good enough.
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and then we assign this control to this button.
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All you have to do is drag this over it and then hold the control key to assign the control to that region.
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And then all you need to do is send this button to the back. So that it is behind this button.
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You can do that by going to Tools, Order, Send to Back,
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and now that button is positioned all the way in the back.
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Let’s go ahead and run this to the Core so I can show you what that looks like. Pretty cool, right?
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Let’s take it one step further. Let’s say I don’t really like this black background
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and we want to add our own custom background to that.
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You can do that by again dragging in a custom graphic that you already have created.
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Let's drag our own custom background into our UCI, so let's again
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click on that element and send it to the back and Boom!
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You have a pretty cool UCI. To keep things looking organized,
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you can click on the top or left margin to create orange guidelines.
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But these lines are for reference purpose only and won’t be visible in your final design,
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but they can really help to keep your design organized and aligned if you use them properly.
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They kind of snap to those buttons. Alright. And if you don’t like them, you can always remove them
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by hovering over them and then just dragging them up and out of your design.
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Once your UCI is complete, it’s time to deploy. If you’re using a TSC-3 or TSC-8,
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then you’ll want to add it to your Inventory, by going to Inventory,
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hitting this Plus icon, Peripherals, and select that.
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And then the last step is to tell that component which UCI it wants to use, we'll select my UCI
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and then your device is ready to go.
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For an iPhone or iPad, you’ll first have to install the free Q-SYS Control App from the Apple Store.
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Then connect to the wireless network that your Q-SYS system is on,
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and then the available UCIs will appear on the screen.
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Select the one you want and Bam! Instant wireless control in your system.
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To access the UCI on a networked PC,
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install the Q-SYS UCI Viewer that you downloaded from the QSC website and run that program.
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You should see an available list of UCIs that you can access. And there it is.
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And remember you can test your UCI in Emulation mode if you don’t have access to the Core.
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Now in the last section of this tutorial I’m going to show you a few advanced methods
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that you can use to create even more dynamic UCIs, but until then,
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take a quick break and we’ll see you when you get back.
Lesson Description
Import custom graphics & backgrounds. Deploy your UCI to an external device.Tips and Definitions
- Only Component Controls can be dragged into UCIs. You cannot drag the entire Component into the UCI.
- To create guides, click the top or left side of the UCI and drag inward.