ETC ION Qeustion

[melkin]

Hey Guys,

 

I had an Ion about 2 weeks ago now at work and I must say I absolutely love it, fantastic desk. I had a Strand 520i before that and the transition has been relatively straight forward but at the same time there's so much more to the ion IMO and a lot is different so its just taken time playing with the desk to teach myself what I need to know and what the desk does.

 

I have a question for u if I may -

 

I have a rotating gobo with the venue name and logo in one of my movers FOH and I want to have it in the centre of our pros header to go with the preset state for shows. Nice and simple just upright and in the centre. If I put it in the required position and record it as either a sub, palette, preset or cue then load it up from any of those the mover is physically in the right place but the gobo will be at a different point rotational wise every time and so comes on upside down or at 90% etc etc.

 

I'm assuming its something I'm not doing or something I'm doing wrong or a setting on the desk or something but just thought I'd ask if anyone had any ideas? Also what should I really record it as? - a preset, palette, cue or effect as it is just one static position and ideally I would like to put it on a fader so befoe a show, at the interval and at the end I can just put the fader up and the gobo will come on in the right place and the right way around!!!

 

Any info would be greatly recieved!

 

Regards

 

Mark

[lite_lad]

depending on the fixture your using it might be that it isn't an indexible gobo, which is explained in this thread here.

Unless it did used to hold the position when you programmed it on the strand?

[Tomo]

What fixture is it, and which gobo wheel is the gobo in?

 

A lot of moving lights don't have indexable gobos.

Also, those that do usually have an "Indexing" and a "Continuous Rotation" mode, so you'll need to ensure you record the position in the "Indexing" mode rather than the "Rotating" mode.

[Just Some Bloke]

You could always make it a 2-part Q:

 

Fixed position gobo (correctly indexed) then a 1 second wait time into turning gobo. That should fix it.

[Martijn de Groot]

pan/tilt information goes in focus-palets, gobo-index information goes in beam-palets. You have to acces them both to get what you want.