epiQ and iQ Onsite Client Training Topic List

Overview

Our onsite epiQ and iQ class teaches you how to use the state-of-the-art epiQ console, as well as how to use iQ to move machines and program cues. It’s geared toward people who have previous experience in automation software for motion control, with knowledge of theatrical concepts (for example, what a deck track is, how it’s used in a show, and so on).

Curriculum

Topics covered in this course include:

Overview of epiQ Console

• Tour of the back of the console
  
  • Network ports to interface with lighting, video, and other production departments
  • Built-in safety manager (ESA)
  • Hold-To-Run configuration
• Tour of the front of the console
  • Three screens can be tilted or can lay flat for storage and shipping
    • Screen 1: Console window
      • Channels, Faders, Go/Stop, and other buttons
    • Screen 2: Device window
      
      • Layouts vs. Filters
      • Saving a workspace
      • Properties panel
    • Screen 3: Console panel
  • Scrollable macro buttons
  • Joysticks

Moving Axes

• Range of motion limits
• Jogging one or more axes
  • Jog velocity and direction 
  • Jogging on an epiQ vs. on a Compass
  • Shared Stick option overview
• Precise axis moves (aka creating a draft cue list)
  • Moving an axis to a specific target 
    • Loading axes from Console panel Add tab
      • Add tab filters and search
    • Loading axes from Device window
    • Setting move parameters
    • Changing the move time 
    • Running a draft cue list
    • Using channel fader to speed-scale
    • Device window moving filter and clearing filter
  • Moving an axis for a specific distance
    • Bumping axes multiple times in both directions
  • Moving multiple axes
    • Move to same or different targets with same or different move types
    • Move same axis to multiple targets and with different move types within a single cue in a  draft cue list
  • Editing a cue in a draft cue list
  • Moving blocks from a draft cue list into another channel
  • Clearing a draft cue list from a channel
• Moving rotary axes
  • Pose move type
• Using Axes Groups
  • Creating an axes group
  • Editing an axes group
    • Adding, removing members, and changing the master
    • Axes group behavior
      • Sync to Master
      • Keep Relative
      • Unrestricted
    • Locking and unlocking an axes group
      • Special icons
      • Movable filter in Console panel Add tab
      • Groups must be unlocked before deleting them in Navigator GUI
  • Syncing an axes group
• Position presets
  
  • Creating presets
  • Editing presets
  • Deleting presets
  • Moving axes to a preset

Using the Show Repository

• Overview of Show Repository for repertory theater and touring shows
• Adding a Show Repository
• Adding a Show
• Adding a Show Device
  • Adding an Axis
  • Adding an Axes Group
• Adding and Offsetting Show Presets
• Linking a Show Device to a Show
• Deleting a Show Device
• Adding a Show Cue List

Creating and Running a Saved Cue List

• Introduction to Cue List Editor
  • Cues
    • Cue numbering
    • Cue Go To Next option
  • Cue blocks
    • Renaming blocks 
    • Fault behavior
  • Cue lines
  • Containers
  • Separators
  • Rearranging, copy/paste, deleting, expanding
• Single channel cue list vs. Multi-channel cue list
  • Why use multiple blocks in a cue
  • Scheduling blocks to run in other channels
    • Auto-start vs. Go press required in destination channel
• Axis move cue line
  • Linear vs. rotary
  • Copy and paste cue line and change start, target, or device referenced
  • Using the Modify Time option
• Loading and Running Cues in a Channel
  • Loading a cue list
  • Overview of running, paused, and loaded areas of each channel
  • Using the Cue List Preview and loading a different cue
  • Device window cue layout
    • Viewing in columns vs. rows
    • Clearing layout
  • Running cues
    
    • Starting a cue before the previous one finishes
  • Speed-scaling a channel
  • Cue line and block status
  • Pausing and resuming blocks
  • Resetting and clearing blocks (handling faulted blocks)
  • Handling unplanned moves during your show
    • Using a draft cue list for contingency or emergency
      • Auto disabling of loaded cue when channel receives a scheduled block that doesn't auto-start 
    • Live editing a cue list during the show (cut/copy and pasting blocks)
    • Saving edited blocks back to your saved (show) cue list
• Disabling cues and blocks
• More cue line types
  • Delay cue line
    • Control timing within a single block
    • Timed delay vs. delay based on cue line completion
  • Cueing a change in motion (Alter move)
  • Cueing with a motion dependency (Wait Axis)
  • Message cue line
  • SPM cue line

Troubleshooting

• Common troubleshooting scenarios
  
  • Tour of detailed troubleshooting section of user manual
• Status
  • Node vs. process vs. device status
  • Device window status filtering
  • Detailed status section in Properties panel
  • ESA status
• Device Message Log
• Using the Support Portal
  • Collecting Support Bundles
  • Submitting a support ticket
  • Accessing release notes, user manual, etc.

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