CMY Mixing on Hog 2

[DarSax]

Hey guys, I'm getting my rental gear in for my Talent Show next week, and I'm renting a Hog II, and wouldn't you know it, every intel in my rig has CMY.

My rental house doesn't carry those boards with the little color spectrum/wheel/thing and mouse so you can visually select the color, and the Hog itself only has the very awkward value wheels to select the C, M, and Y values.

Any tips on how to make getting the color I want easier? Right now, the best I can think of is to load up a show on MaxxyzPC, and then on the computer select the color I want, look at the values (I'm hoping they're displayed), and then use the Hog's wheels to get to that color. It's a bit convoluted, but I'd think less awkward then playing with the wheels until finally you get to your color.

Thoughts? Thanks.

[koncept]

there should be several preset colors. you can create your own color pallates but i think on swatch books the values are there and you can reference them or reference them in some lighting software....just a guess. i know when i was programming a hog, someone else was telling me what they wanted and just said that looks good....lol

[DarSax]

The preset colors in the Hog are, as far as I can tell, just the colorwheel colors. I realize you can set pallettes, but I'm talking about getting to those colors.

Swatch books, though?

[jonhirsh]

Ok so do you have a copy of photo shop?

What you can do is find the cmy of any colour and just enter those values into the console.

JH

[DarSax]

I do not...but one of my associate designers just might. Thanks for the tip, that's probably a lot easier than setting up a Maxxyz or something!

[jonhirsh]

LOl yes and way less expensive ... and confusing.

[koncept]

I guess I had left over presets from other shows in the console then...

the swatchbooks was just a shot in the dark and hoping to get lucky...

this may help:
http://www.ukslc.org/Technical_Artic...ion_Chart.html

[usesafesets]

The key to mixing CYM on a Hog II is to have at least one of every fixture in your rig up and running (this applies only if you are dealing with a shop situation); grab one of you units send it to 50/50 in open white. Then press the colour button and mix your colour. If you are dealing with a whole rig then you can just copy the colour information form that one unit to the rest of your units. Then you can just store it in your pallet and rename it to what ever you what.

[Footer]

Um... So... I hate to ask this... but whatever happened to mixing by color theory?

[soundlight]

Originally Posted by Footer4321

Um... So... I hate to ask this... but whatever happened to mixing by color theory?

Amen to that. We had VL-3000's for our dance concert this past fall, and all of the CMY was done off encoders, no color picker involved. Just think of the CMY wheel in your head, remember your Lighting 101 color theory, and spin those encoders!