Lightning effect

  I don't  have the same lights you have, but with my VL2500s, I have created a beam palette using the shutter strobe encoder set to random, then made an absolute effect that referred to that palette.  I'm not at my console right now, but I remember setting the effect to a certain number of cycles for a similiar effect.  Hope this helps!

Heather

You could also record only the strobe data and intens  into a sub and then use the bump button.

I like cfd701's idea.

Another approach is to add the MACs into the base cue (eg Q5), record as a new cue( Q5.5), time zero, with a follow of, say, 0.5, 1 or 2 seconds. then copy Q5 to Q6.

Hey Matt,

mbtechnicalsolutions said:

I'm thinking record the shutter strobe as a palette, and use that in action 1 of the absolute effect. Change the time to 0 (to get it really fast) and then set it to [random]....

The attribute of "random" wouldn't help you here. The shutter strobe parameter of the Macs have a random strobe built in. So, at say 35% (it's a different percentage for sure), it would strobe randomly but quickly. You might not even need to make an effect if you just want the strobe to be quick and random. Find out the percentage for fast, random strobing and store it in a beam palette (It's better if it is in a palette so that if you don't like the speed, you can just update the palette and your cues are automatically up to date). Then, store that in your first cue, with a follow to the next cue that takes the shutter strobe back to it's default value, while taking the intensity out.

You can definitely set an absolute effect to run for a certain number of cycles. It's the "Duration/cycle" option in the effect editor.

Hope it helps,

~Matt