Have you used the Chauvet Ovation C-805FC before? Would one fixture on the floor be enough to evenly wash a 25-30' tall cyc and be able to evenly split it? Alos if my cyc is approx. 45-50' long how many fixtures would you suggest I use?There are two cyc philosophies - traditional cyc wash fixtures several feet downstage of your curtain, or "grazers" - fixtures inches away from the curtain firing straight down. Grazers give you more ability to break up the lighting on your curtain, however they will probably not be as even as traditional cyc wash fixtures.
I did a project last summer for a 32' wide curtain with "cheap" strip fixtures (cost was like $5K) and the result ended up being OK, but the lens design of the fixtures created funny stray colors that wouldn't work in every situation. The better products that don't do this were over twice the money.
Conventional cyc wash fixtures were slightly cheaper than the better strip fixtures, but not a whole lot.
It's worth your time to get a demo of the Colorsource Cyc and also the Chauvet Ovation C-805FC. You may find that you don't need to hit your curtain from both top and bottom, and with the Chauvet product, you can do vertical split colors with one fixture.
Do you have 5' of throw on the floor? That seems like it would be very in the way. If you do one row, would you not do top?
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