Delete Shows

[SQuser]

Unfortunately, we had to accept that different shows cannot be saved internally.
But the possibilities of the Show Manager (Utility – Data) via USB also seem very antiquated (similar to the SQ Drive, by the way):
Since there is (probably) no internal clock, you can’t see when a show was stored.
And you can’t even delete a show!
To do this you have to insert the USB stick into a computer, but you can’t see any show names there.
So you have to write down the numbers of the shows you want to delete in the mixer beforehand.
Very much in need of improvement!
In any case, it should be possible to delete a show at the desk!!!

[ThomasFOH]

I’m still !!! waiting for this as well. Considering there is a Delete function on many other levels, I’m baffled why there is still no Show-Delete. I have to use the same ‘cumbersome’ technique as you mentioned via Laptop.
I think there is no clock-data due to the chip architecture. However, displaying the file names of shows on a Laptop should be something A&H could accomplish as well considering they are displayed on the Console screen.

[Jiminthebox]

Here is one more person asking for a usable way to delete unused Show files.

[sndanddmx]

+1

[Jonathan]

+1

[mateomici]

+1

[Alec]

Indeed, there really is no real-time clock in SQ.

This is such a tragic loss, as it makes it nigh on impossible to keep track of scenes/shows in what is already quite a primitive interface.

It also means there’s no opportunity of just displaying the current time on the mixer’s display – which can be incredibly useful.

Yet another of the situations where even the cheap crappy x32 has the definite edge on SQ…

[tourtelot]

I am thinking of a way to add a “real time clock” to SQ recordings and thinking that maybe a track of LTC recorded into the same file as the SQ multitrack might do the trick. You will, of course, need to set user bits with the correct date and TOD on whatever device you are having feed LTC to the SQ multitrack. And it will eat up a track. Sort of a PITA but I may try it next time. It was such a problem on my last project that I relegated the SQ recording o backup, and used Reaper on a 2012 MBP for the primary because it showed a real-time clock, dated the file and labeled all the tracks for which, post production was most grateful.

This also assumes that you have a box that spits out LTC somehow. I think there are apps, at least for a Mac, but it is easier just to use a dedicated LCT box like the Denecke GR-1 which I already owned from my days in the motion picture biz. 🙂

D.

[SQuser]

@ tourtelot
Sorry, but in this thread I was only interested in being able to delete a show on the desk.
Your suggestion belongs more in threads that deal with (multi-track) USB recordings.
(It’s quite strange, but somehow fits in with the implemented recording function: Back to the roots!)

[tourtelot]

Yes, of course. There was some discussion already in this thread about real-time-clocks. Sorry for the hijack.

D.

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