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Touring Theatre - Focus

Hello!

Im quite new to our ETC Gio @5 console and i tried to figure out if this question have been answered, but i couldnt find it, so really hope you can help :)

We are going on tour with a theatreshow and i need to be able change focus and intensity of a bunch of lamps at every show.

Would you make presets out of every cue and change them accordingly every night or is there a better/easier way to do this?

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    This is something that can be made easy or terribly cumbersome by how the show has been originally programmed.

    The focus you'll change should be programmed with referenced record targets (presets and/or palettes). You will need a list of which lights use which positions and if you need certain set pieces in place. You'll then go through this list at every venue. The advantage of presets/palettes is that if a light uses a certain focus (i.e. "the sofa") multiple times you will only have to update it once rather than in every cue.

    For intensity you might want to look in Proportions (Patch > Attributes). This can be a fast method of adapting intensity to new fixtures, but it's more of a quick fix rather than something that allows of per-cue control. For detailed intensity control you will probably need to do the changes per cue, but you can reduce the time if you beforehand do a general increase/decrease for a channel in all cues in blind.

    Does this help?

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    This is something that can be made easy or terribly cumbersome by how the show has been originally programmed.

    The focus you'll change should be programmed with referenced record targets (presets and/or palettes). You will need a list of which lights use which positions and if you need certain set pieces in place. You'll then go through this list at every venue. The advantage of presets/palettes is that if a light uses a certain focus (i.e. "the sofa") multiple times you will only have to update it once rather than in every cue.

    For intensity you might want to look in Proportions (Patch > Attributes). This can be a fast method of adapting intensity to new fixtures, but it's more of a quick fix rather than something that allows of per-cue control. For detailed intensity control you will probably need to do the changes per cue, but you can reduce the time if you beforehand do a general increase/decrease for a channel in all cues in blind.

    Does this help?

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