Video Transcript
Introduction to Control
2m 57s
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While most of what you’ve seen so far in Q-SYS Level One training
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has dealt with adding audio hardware and routing audio components,
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don’t forget that Q-SYS is a full featured control engine as well.
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That means that is has all the power and features necessary
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to accomplish both small tasks like manipulating the behavior of native components within Q-SYS,
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as well as large tasks like facilitating complicated two-way communications with third-party devices.
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There are innumerable other devices in the world that can accept external control
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from basic LEDs and contact closures to projectors, shade relays, lighting controllers, cinema masking,
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media players … really the sky’s the limit.
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Essentially, if it’s controllable, then Q-SYS can control it, all without a separate control processor.
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Some devices may have non-native control plug-ins that has been designed
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for integration into the Q-SYS Ecosytem while others might be controlled through GPIO, serial ports,
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network communications, or more complicated Lua coding.
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However, we’re not going to get into most of that in this Q-SYS Level One course.
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If you’re interested in exploring the wide world of third party control,
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we invite you to check out all of our Control-specific courses after you complete Level One training.
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Instead, we’re going to focus on the simpler end of control: the actions that almost every design requires.
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We’ll look at the different ways to control the native Q-SYS components in the schematic beyond their basic functionality,
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as well as how to put control of your design into the hands of the end user.
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We’ll start with Snapshots,
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which are used to record the state of one or more controls so you can recall the state with a single action,
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rather than readjusting every control manually.
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Then we’ll take a look at how to customize the appearance and behavior of each individual control,
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beyond its default properties in the control panel.
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Then we’ll explore Control Pins, which allow you to connect controls together
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so that changing one control can have an effect on one or more other controls.
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Finally, we’ll take a nice long dive into creating the User Control Interface, or UCI,
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which is the interactive visual control that your end users will actually use to interact with the system,
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whether that be from a native Q-SYS control panel installed in the venue,
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or deployed remotely via a phone, PC, or tablet.
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Again, if you want to dig deeper into controlling third party devices or if you want to explore features
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like the Block Controller or Q-SYS Scripting engine to write your own custom scripting to accomplish tasks
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beyond the basic controls that you’ll learn in this section, be sure to check out our advanced control courses.
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For now, take a quick break, and come back to start your Q-SYS Control Overview.
Lesson Description
Introduction to Control
2m 57s
Get a quick introduction to the control elements of Q-SYS.