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ML Intensity

I have a scene with a couple of MLs pointing to specific areas and a heap of Dimmers elsewhere.

The next scene does not use the MLs. We have a nice fade time of 3/3 seconds.

Upon GO the ML intensity fade per normal but they also sweep around and I don't like "smears"

Question: Is it possible to leave the dimmer timing as is but tell the MLs (IE specific channels) to instantly cut their intensity?

They would go off and presumably move (while dark) .

Or, is this a case I need to put in a very short new cue, copy all but turn of the MLs?

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  • let's figure out why you have "smears". either your lights fade out slower than the console thinks (that could be the case with tungsten lights that glow a bit even when they have faded out, or you didn't program as cleanly as you should have. unfortunately i think it's the latter. you can check this in the PSD (Tab 2): if the dark cue has a L in the MV columns (look for the small columns with the cryptic letters), then the smears were programmed by you.

    the L means Live Move and shows up if you have non-intensity parameter moves while the intensity fades from or to 0.

    to get rid of this go to Blind, Cue x Enter (the dark cue), Chan y (the smearing movers) AllNPs At Enter.

    - make sure that you're in Cue Only mode for this. if you're in tracking add the QOnly/Track button: Chan y AllNPs At QOnly Enter.
    - AllNPs is a button at the left side of the parameter tiles in the CIA.

  • in reply to ueliriegg

    Right on the money! Very poor, bad and unclean programming. Limited ML programming experience and trying to program very rapidly as Director takes any request in tech to halt for a while as a waste of his time!

    I'm closely looking at your notes. In the meantime I went to QX (the place we started and copied it to Qx.1 to get Qx Qx.1 and Q2. In Qx.1 I doused all MLs involved and set time to zero. Updated tested and then added a hang time of 0 so tech just had the single GO to move QX > QY. This must be pretty inelegant but will give me time to look more closely at your notes. Thank you. 

    PS I had arranged with an ETC tech from Orlando to come down and give me a couple of hours with MLs but Covid bumped that.

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  • in reply to ueliriegg

    Right on the money! Very poor, bad and unclean programming. Limited ML programming experience and trying to program very rapidly as Director takes any request in tech to halt for a while as a waste of his time!

    I'm closely looking at your notes. In the meantime I went to QX (the place we started and copied it to Qx.1 to get Qx Qx.1 and Q2. In Qx.1 I doused all MLs involved and set time to zero. Updated tested and then added a hang time of 0 so tech just had the single GO to move QX > QY. This must be pretty inelegant but will give me time to look more closely at your notes. Thank you. 

    PS I had arranged with an ETC tech from Orlando to come down and give me a couple of hours with MLs but Covid bumped that.

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