I find myself in an interesting position with an upcoming project, and figured I should ask before I assume that this will or won't work the way I expect.
Over the summer I designed lights for a community theatre's production of an original play. This show is being remounted next month in a different space with different lighting equipment and I've been asked to design lights for the remount.
I have everything under control except for one small detail. During the original production we used the venue's Insight 2's internal timecode clock and functions to run a fairly complexly timed sequence. The duration of this was just under three minutes, and there were about a thousand events, mostly triggering submaster bump keys for lights to follow the music they were synced to, but 20 or so cues and 3 marcos were also fired.
In the new space, we have an Express 24/48. I know Express doesn't support SMPTE, but I have no idea whether it supports running timecode events via an internal clock, like we did with the Insight 2. I can probably reduce the number of events by using effects for some subsets of the sequence, but will still need a few hundred events.
So, my real question is: does the Express support running timecode events from its internal clock? We didn't interface the Insight with any external hardware, we just synced the sound and light call manually.
The ETC documentation doesn't really state one way or another about this, and searching here yielded conflicting information.
Over the summer I designed lights for a community theatre's production of an original play. This show is being remounted next month in a different space with different lighting equipment and I've been asked to design lights for the remount.
I have everything under control except for one small detail. During the original production we used the venue's Insight 2's internal timecode clock and functions to run a fairly complexly timed sequence. The duration of this was just under three minutes, and there were about a thousand events, mostly triggering submaster bump keys for lights to follow the music they were synced to, but 20 or so cues and 3 marcos were also fired.
In the new space, we have an Express 24/48. I know Express doesn't support SMPTE, but I have no idea whether it supports running timecode events via an internal clock, like we did with the Insight 2. I can probably reduce the number of events by using effects for some subsets of the sequence, but will still need a few hundred events.
So, my real question is: does the Express support running timecode events from its internal clock? We didn't interface the Insight with any external hardware, we just synced the sound and light call manually.
The ETC documentation doesn't really state one way or another about this, and searching here yielded conflicting information.
