Importing New Channel Configuration Problem

[jim6918]

I'm going to post this here, although it might belong else place.

I am adding two new controllers for 2010, going from 80 to 112 channels. Here's what I did, but now seems not to be the right procedure.

I took an existing 2009 sequence, inserted 32 channels at the end of the configuration. Then I configured each new channel to the new controllers and channels (controllers 6 and 7, channels 1 thru 16). Then I renamed the individual new channels and moved them around on the sequence to line up with the existing (2009) channels. Thinking that this would be my "master" 2010 configuration, I exported, but named it different from the 2009 configuration. which was probably a good thing. I thought I was home free, so I moved onto the next sequence from last year. When I imported the new 2010 configuration, my channels no longer line up like they did in the other (just finished) sequence.

Isn't there a way to make a master configuration, export it and import it into another existing sequence without things being out of whack?

What step(s) did I forget?

I would really not rather go thru the long version with 15 songs.

[jimswinder]

I have been working on a new Channel Configuration also...so seeing you had problems I tried importing to a sequence from last year...and didn't see what I thought I should see also.

So...

Did your old sequence have more than one track?

Does your new Configuration have more than one track?

EDIT:

Hey Jim...

This is what I had to do. My sequences from last year only had one track. My new Channel Configuration has 7 tracks.

I opened up the old sequence and clciking on the "Timing" radio button, I duplicated my 1 track. When I imported my new 7 Track Channel Configuration, it copied OVER my Tracks in Track 1 from my new Track 1, plus added my other new 6 Tracks as seperate tracks.

BUT... I only have 30 channels in my NEW Track 1, whereas my Track 1 from last years sequence had 48 Channels...so the last 18 channels of the old Track 1 are showing up in the New track 1 AND those Channel Unit ID's are the same as in my other tracks, so in essence, doubled up.

Is this what you are seeing? For me, I will just need to copy and paste those "left over" tracks somewhere into my new tracks.

Hope this helps.

[jim6918]

jimswinder wrote:

I have been working on a new Channel Configuration also...so seeing you had problems I tried importing to a sequence from last year...and didn't see what I thought I should see also.

So...

Did your old sequence have more than one track?

Does your new Configuration have more than one track?

No, single track in both sequences. In fact single track in all sequences. The new configuration just seemed to overlay on the second sequence without consideration for the channel name. I don't know how to explain it any better, but my channels in the second sequence are out of place from the first one I did for 2010.

[jimswinder]

Guess I can't help ya...it seems to be working when I do mine.

Just to be clear, you aren't expecting the channels to be in Alphabetical order or Unit ID order, right? But just in the order you created them and have them in your new sequence.

[jim6918]

I'm beginning to wonder it I don't need to folow the same procedure for when I modified a shared sequence which was to insert 112 blank channels at the beginning of the sequence, then importing my configuration and move the existing channels up to where I wanted them to go in the new configuration, then deleting the left over stuff. at the bottom.

[jimswinder]

Shouldn't be that difficult...

I will get off your post in hopes that someone out theret can actually help you!!

[George Simmons]

jim6918 wrote:

I took an existing 2009 sequence, inserted 32 channels at the end of the configuration.

You were fine at this point. It was what you did next - moving those 32 new channels up and into your 2009 configuration - that messed things up. The only way to preserve what you had from last year and not having to move the same things around in each sequence is if you add new channels (or tracks) to the bottom and then leave them there.

[bob]

The new configuration just seemed to overlay on the second sequence without consideration for the channel name.

That's the way it works. Importing channel configuration sets the unit ID of the first channel of one sequence to the unit ID of the first channel of the other sequence. And the circuit ID, and the name, and the color, and so on. Then it does the same thing for the second channel: It sets the unit ID of the second channel of one sequence to the unit ID of the second channel of the other sequence. And so on.

It does not try to match up channels by name. It goes in order of the listed channels, one by one.

Things get a little more complicated when multiple tracks are involved; the help file has more details on that.

[jim6918]

Thanks everybody. I went back to my procedure for modifying a shared sequence which works just fine. I can add new configuration, cut and paste channels from old to new in about 10 minutes per song, so no point in making it harder than it should be.