Lightning effect

Hi All,

I'm sure this has been answered, but I found no answers when I searched! So please play nice...

I'm new to using the effects on the Ion and want to create a lightning effect where, say, 6 Mac 500's strobe in a random order for a few seconds only.

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]....

will this work? I cannot get to my console to check!

Also, I cant remember if I can set an absolute effect to run for a defined time / duration and then 'stop and end' like on some of the other effect options... if not I will just use follow on cues to get the lightning to stop after a few seconds...

Many Thanks peeps

Matt

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Heather Richards over 13 years ago

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
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cfd701 over 13 years ago in reply to Heather Richards

You could also record only the strobe data and intens into a sub and then use the bump button.
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cfd701 over 13 years ago in reply to Heather Richards

You could also record only the strobe data and intens into a sub and then use the bump button.
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georgeg over 13 years ago in reply to cfd701

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.
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