Funky color cross fades with RGB Lights.....

For now, as a quick fix, you can put a delay on the Green parameter. I realize that this is not a global fix, but it can keep you fading to an unattractive green on a case by case basis.

Hope that helps.

-M

OK yea I can do that and while doing that I have found how to on a cue by cue bases get the fixture to run in RGB mode instead of HSB mode. However there has to be an easier way to do it that I don't know about. Because right now I am having to manually add a R or G or B value to each cue for each fixture to force the light into RGB mode (and then crossfade in RGB instead of HSB) 

So upon further tinkering my question is can I globally or in a range of cues force a fixture from HSB to RGB?

-R

Randall, in 1.5 we've added (are adding?) a button to the Color Picker to toggle the values between their native controls and HSB.  So, the way you WILL be able do this is to:

Go to blind.  (I like to work in spreadsheet for this stuff).

Select your cue range.  Cue n thru enter, where n is the first cue in the list will select the entire range.

Select your channel range.    And then you'll (be able to) hit the color format button to toggle between.

We have several things in planning post 1.5 that will help with this in perhaps a more streamlined manner.

Hope this helps.

a

In the mystical 1.5 you'll find a little button in the colour picker display called Colour format which will toggle your colour information between CMY/RGB and HSB. That should help you out in this instance.

Darn it, don't you just hate it when someone beats you to it!!

Ohh the mystical 1.5

It looked amazing at NAB.

I am sure the clowns will be glad to be let out of the box.  

I am even starting to expect a "Engage World Peace" option in the setup screen of 1.5.

This update will be so amazing! (Epic Even)

Thanks for the help with a work around until that fateful day.

-R

Is it mystical or mythical?  Hmmm... I'm trusting Lane put air holes in the clown's box, or that Engage World Peace option will have to be removed!

:-)

Thanks for your patience.

a

You can try this syntax:

CHAN # RED GREEN BLUE @ + 0 <ENTER>

You may not need Green and Blue since these parameters are grouped together.

Thanks the @ + 0 works wonders and yes I only have to type in one of the three parameters. 

So with a few macros and your help I have easily converted the few cues for our little show (110 in about 10min if you must know).

If any one else needs to do this I did it with three macros so I could make sure I did not screw anything up

M1

CH153 + 154 Blue @ + 0 ENTER

M2

UPDATE ENTER

M3

GOTO CUE NEXT TIME 0 ENTER

Then hangout on the direct selects and hit 1,2,3

Thanks again!

You can also take advantage of grouping to create a truly generic macro

SCROLLER CYAN RED @ + 0 <ENTER>

You also find that blind spreadsheet mode is where you get the most done.

eg

CUE 1 THRU 110 <ENTER>

GROUP (ALL RGB FIXTURES) RED @ + 0 <ENTER>

I have this same issue with CMY fixtures. I tend to work in CMY space rather than HSB, don't ask me why...it's habit, and I know I should get over it!

To force my fixtures into CMY, I have a macro that says Cyan Magenta Yellow Make Absolute, so when I've Color Picked my color, I hit my macro to force the values to CMY, then save this as my Color Palette. This seems to work for me and you could easily syntax RGB instead of CMY.

Great idea though, using the RGB function to color mix your cyc from generic fixtures....might be trying that myself next week!

Warren.

Yea it worked really well. As a side note using the colors above I set the range on the red chanel to 65 to give me a down and dirty white balance and the results was very useful.