I have an opportunity to programm a festival coming up and I have a good base knowledge of the hog 3. I recently have been introduced to the concept of busking and creating playbacks for different parameters and being able to play them back at any time rather than trying to think through every cue. My problem is trying to implement this with the hog. Given I will have only 9 or 10 playback faders how do I get all the different parameters that I would like to access on one playback bus. I've seen talk about about virtual playbacks of the forum but what is a virtual play back on the hog where do you access that. For busking certain parameters I thought I heard pallets were a good way to do this or is that not ok. Also is it possible to use play back faders as effect rate modifiers? The festival isn't very complicated about 60 par cans on a down stage truss and 1K2 movers on an upstage. I'm assuming there needs to be different looks for color washes and chase patterns for the par cans but I would like to do some interesting stuff with the movers. Any tips any one has would be helpful I'm new to this forum. I would really like to learn an efficient way to program a busking type of show.
So I have been using a "busking" method for the last few weeks ever since my theatre cut my rehearsal times in half. I love it so far, but I'm comming across come minor annoyances I'm hoping some of you can help with. I have a rig of 30 Mac washes and 25 Mac Spots, loads of conventionals, a Martin QFX Star Drop and 10 Mac 250 spots on the stage. My Hog is set up with Washes and enviorment effect on the left screen, and my spots on the right. Very close to how Brad described with a few differences. A few of the problems I have:
Focusing spots - Being my spots are spread out over a large stage, the focus is not always great, is there someway I can make another cuelist which can help with this. Something like a "Bump focus up 10%" or "down 10%", preferably something that will not take up a whole row of cuelists.
Star Drop- My star drop will run through its twinkle effect for about 90 seconds then stop for about 5 seconds, then start again. Its not bad when I'm using a slow twinkle but a fast one kills the look for that amount time.
Spots - As of now, all of my Mac Spots are grouped together in these cuelists, so unless I write a specific list with a higher priority all of do the same thing. Is there a space saving way to make just, say "the 3rd electric" follow a particualy virtual playback? I'm not sure I'm explaining it well, or if its just a pipe dream.
I have loads more questions, but this are my more pressing ones. Thanks in advance!
So I have been using a "busking" method for the last few weeks ever since my theatre cut my rehearsal times in half. I love it so far, but I'm comming across come minor annoyances I'm hoping some of you can help with. I have a rig of 30 Mac washes and 25 Mac Spots, loads of conventionals, a Martin QFX Star Drop and 10 Mac 250 spots on the stage. My Hog is set up with Washes and enviorment effect on the left screen, and my spots on the right. Very close to how Brad described with a few differences. A few of the problems I have:
Focusing spots - Being my spots are spread out over a large stage, the focus is not always great, is there someway I can make another cuelist which can help with this. Something like a "Bump focus up 10%" or "down 10%", preferably something that will not take up a whole row of cuelists.
Star Drop- My star drop will run through its twinkle effect for about 90 seconds then stop for about 5 seconds, then start again. Its not bad when I'm using a slow twinkle but a fast one kills the look for that amount time.
Spots - As of now, all of my Mac Spots are grouped together in these cuelists, so unless I write a specific list with a higher priority all of do the same thing. Is there a space saving way to make just, say "the 3rd electric" follow a particualy virtual playback? I'm not sure I'm explaining it well, or if its just a pipe dream.
I have loads more questions, but this are my more pressing ones. Thanks in advance!
