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Hey!
Pretty soon I will be programming the lighting for our schools tallent show on an ETC Element 40. We have managed to swing it so we will have our standard 24 dimming channels and 4 colour scrollers but we are also hiring in to Martin MAC250 entours and a hazer, all exiting stuff for a small school who have only had 24 working dimmers for a month or so. However I'm still not sure how to program the show to make the movers flexible enough but integrated and working with the convensional's at the same time.
I'm planning on using two types of control for the show:
1) for the introduction video which we have decided will double up as a lights and sound show I'm going to pre program into a cue stack, because I will have a large amount of time to look at this as the video is virtually done and then I can set to work designing my lights, however I need your help, there is some points when I wish the program the movers to point at a certain position then go off for a moment before coming on in a new position, in the gap the conventional lights will most likely remain static, is there a quick way of programming the movers to change to the next position or do I have to have 6 cues (Go to first position, Open Shutter, Close Shutter, Move to second position, open shutter, close shutter and so on...) it seems like there must be a simpler way to do this otherwise larger shows with dozens of moving heads would have to be meticulously planned before programming could begin and cue lists would be ridiculously long? The reason I ask this is because the last time I used moving heads I simply programmed first cue in position with gobo colour etc, next cue position colour gobo etc, but when I changed between the two the colour changing, gobo wheel moving etc could be seen whilst the cue was changing.
2) for the acts I will not have time to program cues for each act so I have decided I'm going to program the 40 sub-masters as 20 standard settings for the conventional fixtures and scrollers and 20 for the moving heads, does anybody know if I can do this and if so how do you program a sub-master so it will only effect the output of certain fixtures or certain perimeters within the fixture, e.g. only the position of the mover or only the colour etc etc...
Thanks for your Help in advance and sorry for saying in a thousand words what could probably be be said in 10!
Pretty soon I will be programming the lighting for our schools tallent show on an ETC Element 40. We have managed to swing it so we will have our standard 24 dimming channels and 4 colour scrollers but we are also hiring in to Martin MAC250 entours and a hazer, all exiting stuff for a small school who have only had 24 working dimmers for a month or so. However I'm still not sure how to program the show to make the movers flexible enough but integrated and working with the convensional's at the same time.
I'm planning on using two types of control for the show:
1) for the introduction video which we have decided will double up as a lights and sound show I'm going to pre program into a cue stack, because I will have a large amount of time to look at this as the video is virtually done and then I can set to work designing my lights, however I need your help, there is some points when I wish the program the movers to point at a certain position then go off for a moment before coming on in a new position, in the gap the conventional lights will most likely remain static, is there a quick way of programming the movers to change to the next position or do I have to have 6 cues (Go to first position, Open Shutter, Close Shutter, Move to second position, open shutter, close shutter and so on...) it seems like there must be a simpler way to do this otherwise larger shows with dozens of moving heads would have to be meticulously planned before programming could begin and cue lists would be ridiculously long? The reason I ask this is because the last time I used moving heads I simply programmed first cue in position with gobo colour etc, next cue position colour gobo etc, but when I changed between the two the colour changing, gobo wheel moving etc could be seen whilst the cue was changing.
2) for the acts I will not have time to program cues for each act so I have decided I'm going to program the 40 sub-masters as 20 standard settings for the conventional fixtures and scrollers and 20 for the moving heads, does anybody know if I can do this and if so how do you program a sub-master so it will only effect the output of certain fixtures or certain perimeters within the fixture, e.g. only the position of the mover or only the colour etc etc...
Thanks for your Help in advance and sorry for saying in a thousand words what could probably be be said in 10!