Just curious if the way I setup my lighting is the correct way or if I am doing it a more extensive way than I should.
Hopefully someone can follow this--
I program lights for my church - I have around 8 moving heads and some other misc.
Basically, I create a scene with several steps - each step being different positions for all of the lights. After my first step is created, I duplicate it and move the lights into a different position/color. I'll repeat this until the scene feels complete.
I then use each scene for a different part of the song (chorus, verse, etc). I will set the speed/intensity of the scene based on the energy of the part of the song.
Here is what the live mode will look like:
Cornerstone > Chorus Low
Cornerstone > Verse 1
Cornerstone > Chorus High
etc.
I'm pretty sure the way I program the lights into different positions with steps is not the easiest way - I know there is the visualizer with presets, but I haven't had the time or luck to figure it out yet. Let me know if this is the case.
The other big thing is that when I plan out the different scenes - I have to be thinking of transitions (first and last steps of each scene) because I don't want the lights to fly around as they switch, but rather seamlessly transition. To me, the way I am doing it seems very complicated.
Sorry, I haven't used mydmx2.0 in a few months as it needs repaired - so I'm going off of memory.
Let me know if this process is indeed how someone should use it or if I'm missing something.
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