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Old August 20th, 2008, 03:49 AM
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Default Re: Why is intelligent lighting "dumb" on an ETC Lightboard

ETC consoles are not easy to program with movers mainly because they were originally not designed for them. Programming the lights to move and set themselves in position during a blackout is not very easy. Then if you want the fixture to go to blue, you have to look at the dmx chart for the fixture and set the value proportionately. If you just guess through it until it turns blue you may find out that it will actually slowly transition to another color (chosing a very slow color roll rather than the indexed blue value). Also moving lights have control functions such as home, lamp on and lamp off. You will have to find the values and enter them in. Also (especially with martin) they do not have a seprate control channel, the control fuctions are on the strobe channel. So if you are trying to get a real fast strobe, you can easly lamp off the fixture or re home it. If you lamp off a fixture while its good and hot it can take between 5 and 10 min for it to lamp back on. Also you will quickly learn that say for example you have an actor who is slightly off spot, you cannot simply move the fixture onto that spot, if you touch the touch pad the fixture will go flying off stage and then you will have to move the fixture into the appropriate area, which is completely unacceptable for actual performances.
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