I was watching a vid that had some really cool moving head effects and wanted to see if anyone knew how to make it.
I looked into some early post on this forum and came across a post named "complex moving head effect" I had copied the suggested way to run the effect via absolute but the issue I was running into was when I would add the levels 100 & 0 it would alter the pan on my moving heads instead of dimming out the light. any suggestions on how to fix this?
Actually, those lights appear to just continusly spin their Tilt...as you can see e.g. in 55:50 if you look closely.
But to answer your question, you want to look at building a standard "Fly in" / "Fly out" / "Peel out" (multiple names, always the same idea) effect. I build them like this:
Action 1 = Intensity @ Full
Action 2 = Tilt @ - 90 (so change value by minus from current position)
Action 3 = Intensity out
Action 4 = Tilt to Background (so restore to start position)
Grouping the lights in other orders than 1 thru last can easily achieved using Offset. Makes interesting looks with the same Effect.
Other programmers will build it a bit different..like starting with @0 so lights first go out, but the theory is the same usually. You can also substitue the Level in Actions 2 and 4 by Focus Palettes or Presets if you want specific start / end positions, for example from Downstage Center. In this case you don't need to write anything in the Params column.
There's a great video from ETC with David Kane about building and using cool Effects on Eos..worth watching !
Cheers
