Perhaps one of the lists at http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/...1-gels-apollo-color-scrollers.html#post160993 ?... The rental company has a scroll that they call their "theatrical" set of colors. I don't remember their numbers, but they are mostly light blues, greens, with a few reds and yellows. ...
Well, that's going to make using scrollers a challenge, isn't it? One seldom enjoys seeing a live scroll, does one?...I'm doing Cinderella, and there are not a lot of blackouts planned. ...
Do people really have issues with calibrating scrollers these days? I have worked with a bunch of different, but common scroller models from low end to high end, and aside from torn or stuck strings, have never had to calibrate them. I suppose if you make your own gel strings, that could be an issue, but I generally don't have problems hanging scrollers on fixtures, addressing, cabling, and just going. Also, if the OP is using a newer generation console (Eos series, OBII, Strand 500, Palette Series, etc) then programming scrollers is really simple and not very time consuming, just a couple extra keystrokes.
I rarely have to calibrate an entire system of scrolls, but it's not uncommon that I'll need to calibrate one or two in a rig of 75+ scrollers. A lot of the time when I program scrollers, they are rental gear with varying degrees of wear, and have newly made scrolls that were made for that show, so it's not uncommon to find a few frames that need to be fudged. That said, it's a matter of seconds to do this, hardly something that takes any appreciable amount of load-in or tech time.
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