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Help with mover lights...

Hey everyone,

I have 4 Legend 550 Spots that I am using.  Right now I am not using any haze so I am just using them to light different parts of the stage.  My question is, is there a way to make the mover fade out, reposition itself for the next cue, and then turn back on?

Here is an example of what I am talking about:

Say cue 1 has the movers shining in red with gobo 1 on the wall, cue 2 has the mover shining in blue with gobo 2 shining on the floor.  When I go to cue 2 you see the mover cycle through all the colors on the wheel to get to blue and all the different gobos to get to the new one.  Obviously it is very distracting and not very clean.  So when I go to cue 2 I want the mover to fade out (3 seconds or so) move to the new location, change the color wheel and gobo to the new one and fade back in (another 3 seconds or so).  Is this possible?

Thanks for all your help.


Brynden

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    To manage this from the console you need to introduce an intermediate cue where the light goes to black, marks to the new location, and then fades back in. You can use follow or hang to automatically trigger this intermediate cue.

    As an alternative, some moving lights have a "move in black" or "blackout" setting where the fixture will black out prior to changing settings. I can't find a manual on-line so there's no way to know if your fixtures support such a mode. Personally, I wouldn't choose to use the setting because sometimes I want live moves.

  • 0 in reply to sk8rs_dad

    If they are chauvet legends, I think they do have this feature.  It's not implemented very well though, the one time I programmed some with it unintentionally enabled, they movers would blackout when you manually pan/tilted them, which made focus remarkably difficult.  I'd avoid settings like that if at all possible.

     

    Cue 1 - Movers in Red.

    Cue 2 - Conventionals Change, Movers Fade Out and mark (enabling automark on the console is probably your best bet for what you are doing).

    Cue 2.5 - Autofollow.  Movers fade up in the new position.  Put a follow time of 2x the fade time of cue 2, or change the focus/color beam time to 0, but still give the mover a few seconds to get to it's new place.

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