Pan/Tilt Effect creation in Effect Editor

You will probably find its easier to use an Absolute effect for most things with moving heads.

You can then just set the series of steps you need,   you use focus palletes to hold the positions you want and as an example if you wanted to create the effect of beams going up continuously (ie reseting back down in the dark) you would do something like

Action  Time   Dwell    Level

1            4         0          FP1

2            0         0          0

3            1         0          FP2

4            0         0          100

which would mean the fixture would move over 4 seconds to Focus 1 then switch off, move over the next second to Focus 2 and then switch on and then repeat. 

Obviously you can do all sorts of more complex stuff with this but that's a good starting point.   You use these effects pretty much like you use the 900 series ones, applying them to a selection of fixtures and adjusting their speed the same way

I use absolutes quite a bit. I was just thinking that would be an easy way for the youth who run it in the church to make their own effects without the possibility of messing with or changing the regular ops’ FPS. And correct me if I’m wrong, but it would go in a straight line from action 1 to action 2. What if I wanted to create a circle with the moving heads? 

I use absolutes quite a bit. I was just thinking that would be an easy way for the youth who run it in the church to make their own effects without the possibility of messing with or changing the regular ops’ FPS. And correct me if I’m wrong, but it would go in a straight line from action 1 to action 2. What if I wanted to create a circle with the moving heads?