Effects question.

probably something like this:

That’s pretty much what I did

thanks so much

So I did this and it worked. But now I’m being asked to make it more harsh??

so my new question is can I make two different effects and run them at the same time? The goal would to be to make the one that’s going to 100% go to 100 then 0then 100 very dramatically, very sharp

The "In Time" is the Fade Time coming into that step.  So to make it "harsh" change that time to 0 for a snap.  The "Dwell Time" determines how long you sit in that step.  The "Decay Time" determines the fade down/out of the step.

You can only have one effect running per parameter at a time.  In this case Channel 1 can have an effect running and Channel 2 can have a different effect running.

You can copy this effect using the [Copy To] command and then modify effect 2 to have the harsher timing.  From a cue you can execute effect 1 for a period of time, then in the next cue (via a follow time if you want it automated) run effect 2.

Thank you very much!!!

What’s the step time

Step time is how long the step runs for before the next step starts,  it can be shorter than the total of the in, dwell and decay so the next step in the effect can begin  before that first one has finished.  ie one light could still be gradually dimming down and the next fading up

Would it completely stop the step and move onto the next one or finish the step and at the same time start the next step (assuming the step was say 4, and the dwell time is 1, in time is 1, decay time 1)

Would it completely stop the step and move onto the next one or finish the step and at the same time start the next step (assuming the step was say 4, and the dwell time is 1, in time is 1, decay time 1)

The step keeps running whilst the next step is running as well

ie if first step is chan 1 in 1 dwell 1 deacy 1 step time 2  100% 0%

and 2ndt step is chan 2 in 1 dwell 1 deacy 1 step time 2 100% 0%

then chan 1 would fade to full over 1 second,  then wait for 1 second and then chan1 and chan2 would both change with 1 fading out and 2 fading in.  then wait for 1 second and 1 fades up and 2 down at the same time

If the step time was longer than the component ie 4 with in, dwell,decay as 1 then its just going to wait 1 second before starting step 2

You might also set the step time as zero on a steo if you wanted to change 2 things on the fixture at once.

eg

step 1  in 2 dwell 0 decay 0 step time 0  FP2 FP1

step 2 in 2 dwell 0 decay 0 step time 2 100% 0%

So the light moves to focus pallet 2 over 2 seconds, as well as fading up over the same 2 seconds and then goes out and moves back to FP1