Tom_Robbo26 Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Just an idea. If there was a full rig of intelligent lights could you get them to track an object. I know on lighting desks you can put your finger on a touch screen design of the stage and they will all hit that spot. But is it possible to get fixtures to act as a followspot, to follow a certain person on the stage, or like in a football game to follow a football but not just one a full rig. I know its probobly a useless feature for a football game, was just an example but it could be used to act as a followspot. Just wondering if the concept would be possible. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Buffham Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 If you look at something like then this sort of thing can and has been done. But as you'll see even with objects moving in 2-dimensions it isn't very good, and nothing like the quality you'd expect from a professional followspot operator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeStoddart Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 There have been several previous topics on the subject of using moving lights as follow spots. The sort of thing you are describing would require the tracking capabilities that effectively use the equivalent of an additional mic pack as a transmitter to identify the target and a number of receivers calculating the position of the transmitter and then driving the movers to that direction. I have seen this in operation with four or five movers in a corporate setting, tracking the speaker as they moved freely about the stage. I would imagine that you could scale this to a complete rig if you wanted to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Such a thing does exist. I think Martin made the Trackpod, and Artistic License made a similar thing to what Lee described. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamtastic3 Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 yeah THANKS David, for mentioning Robot Wars. You've just made me watch a dozen or so youtube clips of it ;). I'm sure one time when they had the Cyberlights at the back of the arena, a robot took one of them out... Anyway, could you not just disable a moving head's pan and tilt (in some way to loose traction in the steppers) and just move it like a followspot with the desk operator behind the effects?I use 2 faders to control manual followspotting with scans. fader up is up, fader down is down, fader up is left and fader down is right... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 yep, you could do that - but you'd need an iris and/or a zoom to do what follow spots do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick512 Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 I think this is what your looking for... not tried it myself but heard it works pretty well. http://www.wybron.com/products/tracking_systems/autopilot/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ynot Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 As I recall, not exactly in the budget end of the marketplace.... (Quite far from budget, I believe!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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