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Moving light with an Absolute Effect to follow a path does not work right in a cue on Element?

I recorded Focus Palettes at four different points in the path I want the light to move through and created a 4 step Absolute effect and set its cycle to 1 with a 32 second cycle time. When I run the effect manually, it executes perfectly and the light moves through the path slowly over 32 seconds and stops at the end but when I put it in a cue, the effect does not start for several seconds and after it does start, it moves through the fine except that it goes beyond the last place it is supposed to stop. Any idea why the cue is behaving differently from manual? Where would I look for problems? Thanks!

  • 0
    sounds like you may have recorded a cue level override.
    you can check that whilst sitting in the cue and hit Effect Enter. that should open the Effect status display. Above your encoders you see the values which are recorded in that cue. these may override the original settings.
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    Check if in the entry section of the effect it says time Cue/Sub. In connection with the entry behavior you can get a face instead of an immediate start. So set the entry (and probably exit) time to 0, and the behaviour to immediate
  • 0 in reply to ueliriegg
    Thank you both for your help. I figured out the problem. In the effect, I needed the lights to move slowly so I increased the cycle time to 32 seconds and did not realize that it splits that time between the 4 steps so my first step had 8 seonds and because the light was already at the initial position, it just stayed there for 8 seconds. I correcred it by changing the time for the very first action to 0 seconds and leaving 10 seonds for the remaining actions and now my light starts immediately the Cue is fired. For the exit, the light was supposed to stop at a different location and after the effect was finished, the light was trying to go back to its original location. Setting the exit time to 0 took care of that.

    Thanks again for the great tips.
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