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Help Me!

I am a sophomore at our school, And LOVE doing lighting design. We got a new auditorium this year with a ETC EOS, Which I love. I have had to learn everything by myself because our auditorium manager (The guy who is supposed to teach me) is not doing a good job. We do not have any DMX at the moment installed. Well I am designing the lights for our upcoming choir concert (show choir). One of the songs the girls are doing is Fireflies, Well I have the stage blue. but was wondering if it was possible to have different lights slowly flash on and off, Like how stars are in the night sky. I know it is possible because I have seen it done before when I saw a show at a professional theatre. I am able to do this if I record those certain lights to different faders and slowly slide those faders on and off, but didnt know if I was actually able to record a cue for this. I asked the auditorium manager and he told me to use the chase effect. I thought the effects were only for DMX lights like moving heads. I have no clue how to achieve this effect and would really like to have it.



[edited by: carsonld at 6:31 PM (GMT -6) on Fri, May 3 2013]
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    IF you are controlling the lights with your EOS you absolutely have DMX and they are being controlled by DMX from the eos.  I am guessing you have sensor dimmers and they are receive DMX either via ACN or through a gateway.  DMX is the idustry standard for control of all lighting fixtures whether intelligent (Moving, led, color mixing etc..) or conventional (S4, leko, par can etc.) My point is that you can create many different types of effects for your "conventional" fixtures.  Here is a simple one on the eos. feel free to contact me off line if you would like more insight. 

    select channels lets say 1 through 5 The syntax would be 

    [1] [thru] [5] [effect] [9] [1] [5] enter.

    From there hit [clear] then [effect] [enter] and you can adjust the rate and size in the effects window that pops up. 

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