Help with Default to black

[Ian_p]

All, I've read all the threads I can about default settings - but I'm still having issues with an intermittent flash to white when fading between cues. Worse if the fade is more than a second.

FLX S24, V8 software, using playback 0 in a theatrical cue stack. 

All conventional dimmer lanterns are on page 1 and 3 - no issue with these.

All LED fixtures are on page 2 for convenience. I select all by holding first channel button and pressing the last and then I can see RGBW on the inbuilt screen - moved these to 0, press 'Record', 'Home', 'Default'. 

Only it doesn't seem to work. Still getting the flash - but only sometimes not every fade which baffles me. Do I need to set default fixture by fixture...?

Is there a way to look at the config of a fixture and see what the defaults are? At present  I seems I can only overwrite the default - without seeing its present state.

Any assistance would be gratefully received!

Cheers

Ian

 

[Archie D]

Hi @Ian_p,

8 hours ago, Ian_p said:

I'm still having issues with an intermittent flash to white when fading between cues. Worse if the fade is more than a second.

Please could you upload your showfile here? We may then be able to figure out if it's a problem with the fixture itself, or if the fixture has some funny channel on it in the profile causing this erratic flashing behaviour, thank you.

8 hours ago, Ian_p said:

Is there a way to look at the config of a fixture and see what the defaults are?

The previous 'Edit Fixtures' window to see and change defaults of fixtures was removed in ZerOS 7.9.3 in favour of the new Fixture Schedule section of SETUP. To see a fixture's defaults, you could select the fixture(s) and page through the different attributes and see each individual parameter value on the internal touchscreen of FLX S.

[Ian_p]

Archie, Many thanks for your reply. After reading your reply above, I swapped from selecting all the fixtures and applying a default, and stepped through all fixtures one by one and applied the default also fixture by fixture. As I did I could see some colour information that way.

All working now - fades occur as expected - some blackout cues had to be rebuilt - but overall we are now working. I've learnt something new - I had never checked or tested the default settings before, and I am delighted it now works as I expect it to. 

Only change to workflow is creating new scenes I now have to select a fixture and chose the colour I want first, as of course the intensity comes up black now. But easily manageable.

Reading the old threads led me down the path of 'Select all' Spin all colours to '0' 'Record' 'Home' 'Defaults' - which was not applying default to black on all fixtures.

Changing to 'Select Fixture 1' 'Spin all Colours to 0' 'Record' 'Home' 'Defaults', and then 'Fixture 2' 'Spin all Colours to 0' 'Record' 'Home' 'Defaults', and so on was the solution.

Thanks again

 

Ian