lightingyoung Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Hi all, Just a quick question. Does this desk have move when dark? I have looked but cant find anything. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Hi Unfortunately the ML 24 doesn't at this time offer Move On Dark - however you can program your moves yourself quite easily using palettes. Let me know if you'd like me to explain the process. Hope this helps, Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smalljoshua Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 If you could explain the way to program move when dark on this desk it would be great. Josh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Hi Josh The easiest way is to do the following stages. I'm imaginging a simplistic scenario here - obviously you may have more complex cue lists, so you may have to adapt it to your scenario. Q1 - Lights in Red, UpstageQ2 - Blackout / Scene ChangeQ3 - Lights in Green, Downstage The three cues above would be programmed as normal, with the positions and colours programmed to reference palettes (the LCD above the wheels displaying P1, for example, instead of a DMX value) In Q1... Fixture 1 @ Position P1, Colour P1, @ FullQ2... Fixture 1 @ 0%, Position P1, Colour P1Q3... Fixture 1 @ Position P2, Colour P2, @ Full You need then to add another cue in, after Q2... Call it Q2.5 (select Q2 and press Insert, then use the arrow keys to select Q 2.5) Q2.5... Fixture 1 @ 0%, Position P2, Colour P2 Then when you run back your show, the following happens... Q1... Fixture Upstage, In Red, At FullQ2.... Fixture fades out (stays where it is, stays in the same colour)Q2.5... Fixture moves to the new position and colour, still in blackoutQ3... Fixture Fades up As the desk does not have a follow-on cue function, you have to manually trigger Q2.5 after you've triggered Q2.... I tend to label the cues as something obvious like "====MOVEONDARK====" so that I know not to expect something to happen when I press GO. Hope this helps, and that you can see how this applies to a larger scale show. Essentially this is the way that huge west end shows preset their fixtures, it just scales up from the relatively simple principle. All that the Auto Move On Dark function on various desks is doing is automating the Q2.5 bit. Hope this helps, Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smalljoshua Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Thats handy to know seeing as I hope to be lighting a show with some movers soon and this would be handy. Josh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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