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  1. Help with chases

    in ORB & ORB XF

    Posted

    Hi Karleaton,

     

     

    Try replacing G2 with T2/1 (Trigger Stack 2, Cue 1)

     

    If this doesn't work, please could you email me your show file? My email address is in my signature below.

     

     

    Running chases like this means that you can reuse Step Based chases multiple times throughout your show. We are looking at ways to make this even easier.

  3. set my Leap Frog to run submasters on my Leap Frog 48

    in Frog Range MK1

    Posted

    Hi CBMatt,

     

    Yes any DMX desk will work as a wing for the LF48, with upto 30 submasters per page. There are already 10 submasters on the LF48, so you have another 20 available. If you wish, you can have all thirty on the wing, and the first 10 will be identical to the 10 on the console itself.

     

    The flash buttons will work as they do on the console, with the desk taking the related submaster to 100%. The console recognises the sudden 'snap' to 100%, and so will select that submaster, just like the flash buttons on the console itself do.

     

    You can run a cue list from the 'wing', but obviously channel 1 on the 'wing' will be affecting submaster 1 on the console itself.

  5. Release go button and programming submaster

    in Leap Frog 48 & 96

    Posted

    Hi Paolino,

     

    If you are in tracking advance mode, and Smart Tag is off, you don't even need to lower the submaster, as the console will only record what is tagged (when you move a wheel, the background inverts to a white background, which indicates that it's tagged). By turning intensity on from the submaster, instead of from the wheel, you are not actually tagging that parameter.

     

    Hope this helps,

  8. Fixture Personality for Starcloth

    in Jester Range

    Posted

    Hi Jestersun, it all depends on the star cloth. Some starcloths just have 3 or 4 channels, each that bring on a random selection of the lights. This allows you to build your own chases / effects from the console. Other starcloths will have built in effects, chases etc.

     

    By addressing to DMX 1, and then using the faders, you will hopefully be able to write down what each channel seems to do, and find out how many channels the cloth takes up (keep going until you get to a channel that doesn't have any affect). With this information, we can try and make you a fixture profile.

     

    However, be aware that some channels will be affected by other channels. So for example, channel 3 might not do anything, until channel 2 is at a particular value.

  10. Jester ML newbie

    in Jester Range

    Posted

    Go into SETUP by holding down the SHIFT button and MODE button, until the SETUP LED lights up (next to the mode button).

     

    Use the down arrow to select <Assign Fixtures> (when an option is selected, the triangular brackets are highlighted)

     

    Press ENTER, go down to <Add Fixtures> and press ENTER again.

     

    For the Chauvet Q-Spot 260:

     

    Select 'Fixture Library' on the MultiFunction Keys (the 10 keys to the right of console, with the screens above them).

     

    Select BC, and then select 'Chauvet'. Use the 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' buttons to change the fixtures you see on the MultiFunction Keys, until you see the Q-Spot 260 LED (it's Page 10 for me). There's an Advanced (Adv) and Basic (bas) version available, you need to make sure the mode you select on the console is the same as the mode selected on the light itself.

     

    You will now need to select a location to 'put' that moving light. If you have four of them, select 4 of the MultiFunction keys. Once you've done that, press the ENTER button.

     

    For the Chauvet Q-Wash 260, repeat these steps (go down to <Add Fixture> and press ENTER) but select 'USB' instead of 'Fixture Library' to load the file I attached above from a USB stick.

     

    Once you've assigned them all, go down to <Exit> and press ENTER. A warning will pop up saying that a DMX patch is required. Ensure <Yes> is selected, and press ENTER.

     

    Now press one of the fixtures you have assigned on your MultiFunction Keys, go down to 'DMX', press ENTER and type the DMX address of the fixture (whatever DMX address that light is set to). Confirm this by pressing ENTER again. Repeat this for all your fixtures, then go down to <OK>, press enter to go back into the main menu, and then press MODE for a second to come out of SETUP.

  14. Feedback from 'Dodgy Technicians' facebook group

    in Leap Frog 48 & 96

    Posted

    Hi Guys,

     

    Sorry it's taken me a while to reply to these - thanks for your feedback.

     

    The lack of, on the Jester, the ability to name fixtures, without using the fixture software, which is a absolute pain to manage if for example you need to add 10 led pars or something

    Thanks for this Callum - I've logged it as Issue ZJE-4185 on our bug tracking software for the Jester Series.

     

     

     

    My second issue is the size of the buttons on the phantomjester software, as you can only expand the size so far and I cant see the buttons to select letters etc when I am patching the desk virtually.

     

    Have you got the latest version of Phantom Jester? Maybe you could send me a screenshot as I don't have the same problem.

     

    Most importantly the wheels on every desk i have used seem to be very sensitive and I've had to replace them a few times.

    It's possible to decrease the sensitivity of the wheels on all our ZerOS consoles. It's also important to remember that the wheels take the speed you move the wheels, opposed to the amount you move the wheels. This can take some getting used to, but it makes controlling moving lights, specifically the Pan and Tilt, really quick as you only have to move the wheel a small amount. I've seen a lot of users spinning the wheels, which results in them 'loosing control' of the mover as the wheel is spinning so fast.

     

     

     

    The next thing is the effects generator on frog os , i would love you guys to have a gander at showcad because for me they have got it spot on. I can draw my shape onscreen and the heads follow it , i can spread the fixtures around the shape with no effort at all.

    Please remember how old Frog OS is, it's not one of our current products. Our ZerOS consoles, including the Leap Frog 48 & 96, Solution Series and ORB Series all have advanced effects engines, allowing you to apply wave based effects to any parameter of the fixture, and adjust the size, speed, offset and rotation of these. We also have 1000 effects palettes, with the console automatically creating you 20 or 30 of the most used effects for you.

  15. Jester ML newbie

    in Jester Range

    Posted

    Hi Karl,

     

    The Chauvet Q-Spot 260 LED's should already be in the fixture library included on the Jester, however the Chauvet Q-Wash 260 LED's are not, so I've attached them below.

     

    Are you happy with Assigning and Patching the moving lights, or would you like me to go through it with you?

     

    Regards,

    Q Wash 260 LED.ift

  19. Feedback from 'Dodgy Technicians' facebook group

    in Leap Frog 48 & 96

    Posted

    This thread is aimed at users who have given feedback via Facebook.

     

    This thread gives you an area to provide additional feedback and suggestions on the main areas that were highlighted:

     

    intelligent fixtures

     

    tagging of attributes (normal or smart mode)

     

    effects

     

    assigning fixtures

     

    patching

     

    editing scenes and chases

     

    As always, we love to hear feedback from end users, and always take suggestions seriously.

     

    Many Thanks

  20. Lanta Laser fixture type editor

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    It's up to you which parameters you put into each attribute.

     

    However, putting them all into BeamShape will make programming quite slow for you, so I've made a few changes:

     

    Blazar Sapphire 500 / Blazar UV Pink

    - I've put HMotion, VMotion, HStretch, VStretch and Rotate into Position. This means there are then only two pages (2 x 3) of parameters in the Beamshape attribute, which will make programming much easier.

     

    Quasar G50

    - I've done very similar, putting X/Y/Z Rotate and H/V Motion within the Position attribute, and left the others inside Beamshape.

     

    I hope this is helpful

    Lanta (2).ift

  23. Editing submaster

    in Leap Frog 48 & 96

    Posted

    When you press Load, what percentage is the physical fader at for channel 2?

     

    If it's below the 80% that it's programmed at in Submaster 1/2, you need to physically take the fader to this percentage (or above), and then bring it back down to 60%.

     

    So, press LOAD and OK

    Take fader 2 to 100% and then to 60%

    You should see that channel change

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