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    Pat Immel
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Ion and moving lights part 2

So this is probably a noob question but I am fairly new to the moving light thing and *really* new to Ion.  I am currently working on a kids production of "School House Rock Live Jr." (a very fun show!) and want to throw in a little "flash and trash".  I would like to use my three  units to pan and figure eight over the stage while changing color, strobbing, etc...you know, flash and trash!  Does the console come with these types of effects?  Do the units come with these? 

 Any help is appreciated!

Pat
 

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  • For an 'instant' ballyhoo type effect, select your fixtures and hit [Effect][901][Enter]. Once the effect is running you can hit [Effect] and change the rate etc.. of the running effect. There are other canned effects in the 900 range that you can apply straight away - not sure of the numbers though as I'm not near a console or offline - but I'm sure there are colour effects in there. To stop a running effect select the fixtures and hit [Effect][Enter]. If you want to stop a colour effect and leave the pan/tilt effect running, select the fixtures and {Color}[Effect][Enter]. Once you've got the hang of using & manipulating those effects its easy enough to start creating your own absolute effects so they do precisely what you want them to do. 

    Strobing would be best done as a fixture effect if it has that capability, i.e. a dedicated strobe channel.

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  • For an 'instant' ballyhoo type effect, select your fixtures and hit [Effect][901][Enter]. Once the effect is running you can hit [Effect] and change the rate etc.. of the running effect. There are other canned effects in the 900 range that you can apply straight away - not sure of the numbers though as I'm not near a console or offline - but I'm sure there are colour effects in there. To stop a running effect select the fixtures and hit [Effect][Enter]. If you want to stop a colour effect and leave the pan/tilt effect running, select the fixtures and {Color}[Effect][Enter]. Once you've got the hang of using & manipulating those effects its easy enough to start creating your own absolute effects so they do precisely what you want them to do. 

    Strobing would be best done as a fixture effect if it has that capability, i.e. a dedicated strobe channel.

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  • in reply to David Buffham

    Actually, 901 is a circle, that only really looks like a ballyhoo if the fixture is pointed straight down.  :-)

     

    There are 16 canned effects that come in every new show file.  What I usually do is take 901, for instance, and copy it using [copy to] to 1 or something like that.  That way I can edit the one I am going to use for my purposes, yet always have the canned effect available.

     

    As David said, the strobe is usually a choice on the fixture.  Select the fixture and then go to one of the beam categories on the encoder wheels.  Usually strobe will be in there somewhere.(dependant upon the fixture) 

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