Move Dark and other questions

The "Move Dark" function is to pre-position your lights. The console never presumes to turn a light off unless you've told it to do so.

For example: Record a stack that looks like this:

1. Light at 0%
2. Light at 100%, In Red, Pointed DSR
3. Light at 0%
4. Light at 100%, in Green, Pointed USL
5. Light at 50%, in Blue, Pointed DSC

If you run this with Move Dark turned off, this happens:

1. Light is off
2. Light fades up to 100% while turning red and moving to DSR
3. Lights fades out without changing colour or moving
4. Light fades up to 100% while turning green and moving USL
5. Light fades down to 50% while turning green and moving DSC

If you run this exact same stack with Move Dark turned on, this happens:

1. Light is off.
   1. It invisibly turns red and moves to DSR
2. Light fades up to 100% without changing colour or moving
3. Light fades out without changing colour or moving.
   
   1. It turns green and moves USL
4. Light fades up without changing colour or moving
5. Light fades down to 50% while turning green and moving DSC

Move Dark is automatically adding in those "(a)" cues to ensure the light doesn't move or change colour while turning on.
If it's already on, then the console assumes you want that "live move" and leaves it alone.

Finally:

The "Palette Time" sets how long moves take from the Palette Bump Buttons.

• [Menu] > Setup > FCB Times

This is also where you set the Move Dark Time. Both default to 1 second.

In Effect Shapes: "Aspect" is "how squashed", "rotation" rotates the entire shape.
Eg Squashing the Circle effect gives you an oval, which you could rotate so the long radius runs SL<>SR or US<>DS or something in between.

Do I need to record a memory of the light at 0% intensity to add to the stack so I can get the "Light is off" scene. (your #1 and #3) Thanks for you help

Yes. If you don't, then you're telling the console "I want you to keep the light on while it moves"

{"Yes. If you don't, then you're telling the console "I want you to keep the light on while it moves"} then what is "Move Dark" doing? I'm Still confused? I have built essentially the same set of cues you have listed. and nothing is going dark before moving. It all just fades from one to the other. Switching on or off the Move Dark function in smartsoft on the cues changed nothing. The only thing that seems to perform this function is to add matching memories with no intensity and having the down times set to one or Zero. This all seems to negate whatever is supposed to be happening with "Move Dark"

uhm, Move Dark doesn't mean "make dark before moving" it means "if the light is dark already and it will fade in on a new position later on, then please move the light while it is still dark"