[ricc0luke]

You should be able to set it up on your light board as a FX effect. The way you enter it varies from board to board so check your manual. Normaly they are a lot easier to enter than you would think. Yea, you would have to enter it step by step if you want it to sweep the stage with a stobing effect. If you just want a strobe across the entire stage simutainsuly, then you only need to steps. Once you have it into an FX effect, then you can patch it to a slider, program it into a submaster, or you can normaly operate it with the click of a few buttons, but I would not recomend that. The whole process varies from board to board, and that is assuming that you have a board that allows for FX effects.

Because the bulbs (tungston or normal) do not go from 100% to 0% at the click of a button (there is always that fast fade) I would sweep the stage from left to right or right to left to create a more defined effect. Yes, this is a more involved process, but it works great. We are currently using this effect for the tornado in Wizard of Oz at our summer theater.