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Okay! I sent this question to ETCconnect forums as well and got the answer that was staring me right in the face. I was using two steps in my absolute effect and trying to stop and hold it in the middle of those two steps. I ONLY NEEDED ONE STEP - just changing to the color palette. Now, it...

Hello!I'm trying to create an effect where my LEDs "wipe" a color change across the stage - from warm to cool or vice versa.I've gotten so close with an absolute effect simply shifting from the background state to a color palette. I've reduced it to a cycle of 1, and I want it to stop and...

On my home computer I just downloaded an update to Qlab 5, and I'm not having the problem, so I'll update at school and see if that solves the issue. Probably a bug that got fixed in an update. But - yes, this issue was for a single Audio cue which I want to play at any time, using a hot key...

Hi all! So, wrestling with Qlab 5 (some changes in there that are infuriating...). We have an audio cue that we've assigned to a hot key (trigger). The audio cue is not being used at all within the cue stack - we placed it at the bottom of the pages of cues. We adjust levels, even trim, of...

Hey hive mind! I'm working with some Mac 700s and VL 3500s and I'm wondering if there's a way to "ease in" and "ease out" of the movement, so if I have them traveling to one position during a slow fade, then to another position in a follow with another slow fade, they don't look so robotic...

Hello all - and happy holidays. These seem to be the only times I get to breathe a little and ask for advice. Otherwise, I'm running around in constant production mode. Here's my question to you all: In the world of programming the lighting console - what is the difference between a...

Ah, but that's my issue - headsets are not cheap for ClearCom. $75-$250 a pop, and when 3 are needed it becomes a hurdle. Trying to just knock over that hurdle. What would I look for to see if it's using DC voltage?

The original was for Kenwood walkies.One headset had no PTT button, so simply had the four wires, two for speaker, two for mic. The other headset was an OTTO brand, with a PTT. I bypassed the button (always on), traced the hot and grounds on both ends and wired accordingly.As for the...

Hi all! So, I dug out an old hard-wired ClearCom base station (CS-222) and a couple belt packs (501s). All seems functional, but we don't have any headsets, ClearCom 4-pin F XLR. However, we've got quite a few other headsets that I'm attempting to convert to the 4-pin XLR.I found a pinout...

We've got with the straight VGA out of the phone directly into a projector. We're a little more "wired" than we'd first intended, but the effect and the power of the projector are fantastic. Relying on WiFi in our theater is always a mistake...not only is our network overworked (the entire...

Thanks all!!! I did indeed dig up a couple of those cables like above, but old VGA style. We still have a few old VGA projectors, so we're sacrificing the portability of a little battery projector for an AC powered bigger projector that the actor can still manipulate, but it's giving a live...

Hey Boothies! Here's a question: we'd like to project from an iPhone while said iPhone is recording live. Ideally we'd love to have the iPhone recording with some of those filter on facebook or instagram and sending that as a live feed to a projector.Anyone have an experience with that...

Hi all, Currently working on an MFA in Stage Design and Lighting at the Lir Academy, Trinity College, Dublin Ireland. Loving the program - VERY hands on. Of course, there's a couple courses with some papers to write, one in Contemporary Theatre Practice. I'm working on a paper about Bobby...

I have a refurbished Telex BTR 300 system with two beltpacks and three headsets (one for main station, one for each beltpack) that has been sitting idle for years. It's too small of a system for our company's needs. If you're interested, I would sell the entire system for $1000. One thing to...

Great responses!! Thanks so much, especially for the synthetic velour tip!