can i select the profile of my moveing lights not to move in a fade out or do i have to make fade out for all my sets one by one
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It depends. if your movers are set to the same position between scenes, then you don't need to do much except program the fade. A typical fade-out sets all values to 0, which would make your movers of course move. But, that would definately be "blackout".
Your best and safest bet is to program the fades one by one as a step into each scene, or as a "complimentary scene" that goes with the scene you choose to associate it.
In my situation, I'm sort of in an opposite predicament.. I want my movers to MOVE, then open the shutter(I don't have a dimmer option). So, in my case, I made the scene first, then copy it to the next step. Go back to step 1 and then close the shutter. I just haven't gotten around to doing that yet. I'm lazy.
I can see your position. You want to have the light move to position and you've taken care of that, but you probably want to have th light change colors while not moving. Say, for example you're going from white to yellow to green and then to red and even a "fade out".
This is what I would do and HAVE DONE: make your first scene. Let's use the example of WHITE. After that, your next 3 scenes(red, green, yellow) are all based on THAT white scene. You copy the scene 3 times, then adjust the colors but add a fade-in to the start of all 4 scenes. This facilitates NO MOVEMENT and color changes with fade. But then you want fade-out with no movement. OK, not a problem. Simply make one more copy with a fade at the beginning and have the dimmer channel set to 0. This would facilitate any of your scene color scenes being able to fade to black, as well as fade in/out on any color with zero movement. You can choose any color and the "fade to black" and it works.
That's how I would and HAVE done it. In my case, it's different because I have a shutter and not a dimmer. My fixture uses a color wheel and not RGB mixing for color setting, but the concept is otherwise the same. I made 14 scenes because my color wheel has 14 colors. Or maybe it's 8 colors. Well either way, I have a scene for each color and a black one. I can't control nor care of the "color wheel" gets seen since it happens very fast. But, my objective was to NOT have the lights move when changing colors.
Sound like what you're after?
Remember, being lazy can save you time. To re-cap: copy scenes then make only the necessary adjustments. Properly label and organize them and you should have no problems. It is easier to copy a scene with your "core/base" settings, and then just adjust as necessary. There's no valid reason to have to remake the same scene over and over and over again just to make a single simple change.
Again, proper labelling and organization can be the difference between an easy show and a "difficult" show. Thank goodness with MyDMX you can do a lot of prep work before the show and thus save time.
Your best and safest bet is to program the fades one by one as a step into each scene, or as a "complimentary scene" that goes with the scene you choose to associate it.
In my situation, I'm sort of in an opposite predicament.. I want my movers to MOVE, then open the shutter(I don't have a dimmer option). So, in my case, I made the scene first, then copy it to the next step. Go back to step 1 and then close the shutter. I just haven't gotten around to doing that yet. I'm lazy.
I can see your position. You want to have the light move to position and you've taken care of that, but you probably want to have th light change colors while not moving. Say, for example you're going from white to yellow to green and then to red and even a "fade out".
This is what I would do and HAVE DONE: make your first scene. Let's use the example of WHITE. After that, your next 3 scenes(red, green, yellow) are all based on THAT white scene. You copy the scene 3 times, then adjust the colors but add a fade-in to the start of all 4 scenes. This facilitates NO MOVEMENT and color changes with fade. But then you want fade-out with no movement. OK, not a problem. Simply make one more copy with a fade at the beginning and have the dimmer channel set to 0. This would facilitate any of your scene color scenes being able to fade to black, as well as fade in/out on any color with zero movement. You can choose any color and the "fade to black" and it works.
That's how I would and HAVE done it. In my case, it's different because I have a shutter and not a dimmer. My fixture uses a color wheel and not RGB mixing for color setting, but the concept is otherwise the same. I made 14 scenes because my color wheel has 14 colors. Or maybe it's 8 colors. Well either way, I have a scene for each color and a black one. I can't control nor care of the "color wheel" gets seen since it happens very fast. But, my objective was to NOT have the lights move when changing colors.
Sound like what you're after?
Remember, being lazy can save you time. To re-cap: copy scenes then make only the necessary adjustments. Properly label and organize them and you should have no problems. It is easier to copy a scene with your "core/base" settings, and then just adjust as necessary. There's no valid reason to have to remake the same scene over and over and over again just to make a single simple change.
Again, proper labelling and organization can be the difference between an easy show and a "difficult" show. Thank goodness with MyDMX you can do a lot of prep work before the show and thus save time.
thanks chris