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Evenly distributing Pan/Tilt between two Focus Palettes (Fan across fixtures?)

Hi!

I’m wondering if Eos can automatically evenly distribute Pan/Tilt across a range of moving heads between two fixed positions.

Example setup:

  • Fixture 1 should light the far left side of the stage (saved as Focus Palette 1)
  • Fixture 6 should light the far right side of the stage (saved as Focus Palette 2)
  • Fixtures 2–5 should be spread evenly between those two positions.

Since I can’t test this at the moment, I’m trying to understand whether Eos can do something like this:

Chan 1 Thru 6 Focus Palette 1 + 2 

In other words:

Does Eos have a way to fan or interpolate Pan/Tilt automatically between two focus palettes, so the fixtures in the middle land at evenly spaced positions?

Or is manual use of the Fan encoder function the correct/only approach?

Any guidance or workflow suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

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    Yes this can be done. You can Fan palettes with [Chan 1 thru 6 Focus Palette 1 thru 2]

    Theres a catch though. When you only record your starting position (Chan 1/FP1) and your ending position (Chan 6/FP2) you're not able to fan Chan 2 thru 5 over those palettes, because these palettes are discrete and do not contain any values for Chans 2 thru 5. You can mitigate this by making FP 1+2 a by-type palette (which stores the same values for same fixture types in the show). then the Focus Palette 1 thru 2 syntax should work like expected. 

    buuuut....... Fan is gonna be faster most of the time i'd say :D

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    Yes this can be done. You can Fan palettes with [Chan 1 thru 6 Focus Palette 1 thru 2]

    Theres a catch though. When you only record your starting position (Chan 1/FP1) and your ending position (Chan 6/FP2) you're not able to fan Chan 2 thru 5 over those palettes, because these palettes are discrete and do not contain any values for Chans 2 thru 5. You can mitigate this by making FP 1+2 a by-type palette (which stores the same values for same fixture types in the show). then the Focus Palette 1 thru 2 syntax should work like expected. 

    buuuut....... Fan is gonna be faster most of the time i'd say :D

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