![]() ![]() If you have questions or suggestions, hit me in the comments. ![]() Hopefully this article will make it easy and effortless to exchange information between the platforms. This workflow really works for me, as I have previously stated- I love LW and I’m lukewarm on Capture’s paperwork. From here on out, you can go to File>Automated Actions>Capture Import 2021 and select your Capture export to be done.įrom here, you can arrange your info within LW how you usually do. This will mean you never need to map your data fields again. Do this! I named mine Capture Import 2021. LW will offer to save this mapping as an Automated Action. When you are satisfied, click OK at the bottom. This will make importing information back into Capture easier. Notice I kept the Capture UID and put it under the Vectorworks UID. Over in LW, open a new empty project and go to File>Import Data.Ĭhoose your file, and then LW opens a dialogue box where you can map the incoming information to the LW columns that make sense to you. I don’t need to change any of this, so I won’t. You are presented with another brief dialogue box that allows you to filter your export either with a Filter or through Selected Objects. For most needs, though, Lightwright Text Files covers our needs. The other way is to select Export->ASCII Patch from Lightwright, and give it a. Now use the Import->Lightwright option in Eos and browse to that. Lightwright will add an extension of '.txt' when it creates the file. If you need those coordinates, you will either need to stay with the CSV export and then do a search and replace in your preferred spreadsheet to change A.1 to 1/1 (and onward through the Universe alphabet). There are two ways to import Lightwright into Eos: From Lightwright, select Export->Data and type in a filename only. It doesn’t include XYZ coordinates of any kind, which are not needed in LW, but may be helpful if you plan to export from LW to your console. The drawbacks are the info that gets left out. I change the Addressing style of Capture from A.1 to the Lightwright-friendly 1/1. The reason you are choosing Lightwright Text Files is it translates a few things. It’s worth explaining a couple things here. From the pulldown menu (shown), you want to pick Lightwright text files, name the file and save. You’ll be presented with a dialogue box with some choices, all of which are hidden. Starting in your Capture file, go to File>Export Fixture Data. Updating to the Beta 6.0.42.413 fixed the issue. Possibly important note- when I tried to recreate these steps for this tutorial on Lightwright 6.0.41.405 on a Mac, I would go through the whole process to have a bunch of empty entries. Getting info from Capture into LW is not complicated, it just has a couple of annoying things that can mess you up. But since you are reading this, you probably already know all that. It combines all the excellence of the best spreadsheets with an integral knowledge of electricity, lighting protocols and helps me fix mistakes before I ever load in a show. I came “up through the ranks” to programmer/designer by being a Production Electrician first, so Lightwright is an indispensable tool for me. Mistakes are humbling, publishing them even more so. Given that most cameras tend to be pretty unimaginative with their naming scheme, it makes sense to name them something a little more human readable.After writing the blog that I intended to finish my Drafting with Capture series, I belatedly realized that I had not, in fact, ever written the exporting Capture to Lightwright tutorial I thought I had. Next, the File Renaming options let you rename the photos as you import them. Add to Collection will group your images together within your library.If you don’t have a backup set up, you can safely ignore it. It lets you duplicate the files to your backup system as you import them. The Make a Second Copy To option is worth using if you’ve got a backup device like a NAS or external hard drive.Again, I prefer just to render them as needed even though they’re smaller than RAW files, they’re still pretty big. You can edit them as if they’re a RAW file, but they’re much smaller, which is useful for anyone who edits on a laptop while storing their main files on an external hard drive. Smart Previews are basically a combination between a small RAW file and a preview.I prefer to leave it to Minimal and let Lightroom create the previews as I need them. The Build Previews dropdown determines the quality of the RAW previews Lightroom generates on import. ![]()
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