So, I've been working on ETC Off-line with a hypothetical I-Beam. I patched it into the system just fine, set up the attributes and encoders fine, and started experimenting with the hypothetical encoders. I was moving my finger around the trackpad which was set to control the pan and tilt functions and I noticed 4 active numbers, two of which moved quite often, and two of which rarely changed. I was perplexed by this until I used the about channel function and found out that the pan and tilt functions were operating in 16 bit mode, as well as LTP.
I think I understand why you would want to run these functions in LTP, but is it better to run them in 16 bit? What advantages will 16 bit offer as opposed to 8 bit.
Also, I found out that you can run the pan and tillt functions via a submaster. If I am running in 16 bit mode, is it necessary to assign each of the individual pan hi, pan lo, tilt lo, and tilt hi channels to their own submaster to control the pan and tilt functions, or should I choose to assign a submaster just to the pan hi and pan lo channels which moved most frequently?
I am asking this because I plan on patching our 1 inteligent light, a Metor ElipScan into our board. I have to create a personality for this light, and I'm not sure whether I want 16 bit LTP pan and tilt channels.
-Jamie
I think I understand why you would want to run these functions in LTP, but is it better to run them in 16 bit? What advantages will 16 bit offer as opposed to 8 bit.
Also, I found out that you can run the pan and tillt functions via a submaster. If I am running in 16 bit mode, is it necessary to assign each of the individual pan hi, pan lo, tilt lo, and tilt hi channels to their own submaster to control the pan and tilt functions, or should I choose to assign a submaster just to the pan hi and pan lo channels which moved most frequently?
I am asking this because I plan on patching our 1 inteligent light, a Metor ElipScan into our board. I have to create a personality for this light, and I'm not sure whether I want 16 bit LTP pan and tilt channels.
-Jamie