Plotting Vivid -R fixtures on ION

Depending on the coverage needed, you could choose to have the fixtures split into two banks, and fade from one set of 5 in one colour to another set in the next...Failing that, you could fade the intensity of the fixture out in time, snap to the correct colour, and fade the fixtures up in time. The Ion's ability to put different times on specific channels can make this prettier, but it's still "minimizing the damage". As a possible workaround, you might try a combination of these two to see if the results are acceptable - fade one group quickly, snap to colour 2, fade up slowly - while fading the other group slowly, snapping to colour 2, and fading up quickly.

Even with conventional incandescent fixtures, you will normally see some blending of the two colours during transitions, though not traversing the spectrum the way any colour mixing fixture does with the intensity left up.

Depending on the coverage needed, you could choose to have the fixtures split into two banks, and fade from one set of 5 in one colour to another set in the next...Failing that, you could fade the intensity of the fixture out in time, snap to the correct colour, and fade the fixtures up in time. The Ion's ability to put different times on specific channels can make this prettier, but it's still "minimizing the damage". As a possible workaround, you might try a combination of these two to see if the results are acceptable - fade one group quickly, snap to colour 2, fade up slowly - while fading the other group slowly, snapping to colour 2, and fading up quickly.

Even with conventional incandescent fixtures, you will normally see some blending of the two colours during transitions, though not traversing the spectrum the way any colour mixing fixture does with the intensity left up.

Which version of software are you running? If you are running 1.9.6 take a look in Setup>Show Settings and make sure 'Allow HS fades' is Disabled.

If you are running anything prior to 1.9.6 I suggest you upgrade. If you don't want to upgrade for any reason you will need to change the way the colour data is recorded in your cues. Right now you have probably stored Hue-Sat values as you used the colour picker to mix the colours. So the fade will be in HS space also. Fading through the device's native colour space is often a more pleasing and smoother colour change.

To change the way the data is stored go into Blind and select the range of cues you want to change - [Cue] [x] [thru] [y] [Enter]

Make sure you have the colour picker visible on your monitor then select the relevant Selador channels and click 'Colour Format'

Ch [x] [thru] [y] {colour format}

The hard values in the cues will now be native values rather than HS values.

This should improve the fade. If you are running 1.9.6 you won't need to make the above changes, just check the Allow HS fades setting.

Graham

EDIT: Beaten to it again! Thanks Mike :-)

But your answer was much more elegant with formating for keystrokes, 'colour' spelled properly, etc

You get more points for quality. :-)

Mike

If only I could persuade someone to spell 'colour' properly on the consoles!

Thanks guys- yep we were running V1.9.6 so have now disabled HS fades. works brilliantly now, just how I wanted it to. Many thanks for your help.

Hi Graham,

If you can get someone to do the translation files in "British", you could add those 'u's and even change the 'z's to 's's in words like "customized".  :)

We actually did this once for an Expression console.

Ann

at least the ending of Theatre is the right way round ;-)

...Also, version 1.9.6 is version 2.3.0 in metric.  8^P