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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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    Rule Zero of the ETC Eos Family:

    A channel is a light is a channel is a light.*

    It quite simply doesn't matter in the slightest whether it also moves or changes colour. It's just a light.

    An Effect can be applied to any parameter you can control.
    So if you can make a light flash on and off, you can make an Effect that flashes it on and off.

    On the subject of "DMX" etc:
    Once a light is patched to a Channel and is working under keypad control, it simply doesn't matter how.**

    For an example, consider posting a letter to a friend.
    It doesn't matter how the postal service physically get your letter from the postbox to your friend - plane, train, van, camel, rocket-hamster, bicycle...
    You neither know nor care, as long as it arrives in time!

    ** Ok, many media servers are a little more complex than this, but the premise still holds for varying values of "light".

    ** Except when it stops working and you need to find the problem.



    [edited by: Richard at 2:38 PM (GMT -6) on Sun, May 5 2013]
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    Rule Zero of the ETC Eos Family:

    A channel is a light is a channel is a light.*

    It quite simply doesn't matter in the slightest whether it also moves or changes colour. It's just a light.

    An Effect can be applied to any parameter you can control.
    So if you can make a light flash on and off, you can make an Effect that flashes it on and off.

    On the subject of "DMX" etc:
    Once a light is patched to a Channel and is working under keypad control, it simply doesn't matter how.**

    For an example, consider posting a letter to a friend.
    It doesn't matter how the postal service physically get your letter from the postbox to your friend - plane, train, van, camel, rocket-hamster, bicycle...
    You neither know nor care, as long as it arrives in time!

    ** Ok, many media servers are a little more complex than this, but the premise still holds for varying values of "light".

    ** Except when it stops working and you need to find the problem.



    [edited by: Richard at 2:38 PM (GMT -6) on Sun, May 5 2013]
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