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Touring and Change Fixture Type questions

Hi all,

I'm wondering if someone could help me shed some light on a few things (Pardon the pun). I feel like it's not discussed anywhere or at least anywhere I can find! Would some of you mind sharing how you deal with touring with shows into different house rigs and merging those rigs into your already programmed shows? I have a few unanswered questions such as:

Do you have to recreate your groups everytime you move into a new venue?

If you have a rig that has more of one type of fixture than the day before, Which fixtures do you copy?

Do you have to recreate all your effects if you have something specific like a dim chase that goes from the middle of a truss outwards?

If someone could just talk me through how they go about getting on with a hog when they are touring into different venues/festivals with different rigs it would help me greatly!

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    And again, going from a RGB LED fixture to RGBW, RGBWA etc your palettes and cues will only contain data for RGB, not the extra available colours. You need to either program originally with fixtures containing all options, or just resign yourself to just only RGB in all fixtures - which to be honest works fine 99% of the time.

    I've heard of people creating their own "meta fixtures"for pre-programming that contain every possible parameter. Light Converse would be good to use for this as you can build your own fixtures in it. You then create the fixture profile in Hog and program your base show from that. This means you have data for all parameters (multiple gobo wheels, every imaginable shade of LED etc) in your show file so changing type will work for anything that gets thrown at you. Haven't tried this myself yet but I can see the logic init.

    Hope this helps and doesn't just confuse!

    Leggy.
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    And again, going from a RGB LED fixture to RGBW, RGBWA etc your palettes and cues will only contain data for RGB, not the extra available colours. You need to either program originally with fixtures containing all options, or just resign yourself to just only RGB in all fixtures - which to be honest works fine 99% of the time.

    I've heard of people creating their own "meta fixtures"for pre-programming that contain every possible parameter. Light Converse would be good to use for this as you can build your own fixtures in it. You then create the fixture profile in Hog and program your base show from that. This means you have data for all parameters (multiple gobo wheels, every imaginable shade of LED etc) in your show file so changing type will work for anything that gets thrown at you. Haven't tried this myself yet but I can see the logic init.

    Hope this helps and doesn't just confuse!

    Leggy.
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