Move on Dark glitch

[Zulu]

Hi. I’m using a couple of moving lights in various cues, for my theatre style cue stack on the master playback.

move on Dark is set, and the light does as expected when entering the cue.

But….. when moving to the next cue which does not need the moving lights, the moving lights visibly move and change colour during the fade-out. Not the desired effect, as I’m just wanting it to fade before moving.

any thoughts?

many thanks, Zulu

[Archie D]

Hi @Zulu,

It sounds as if the cue in which your fixtures fade out have position and colour information too. To let these fixtures fade out without any movement or colour changes, we need to remove that information from that cue.

First, save a copy of your showfile so you can revert to it if needed (Z/Shift -> Save Show).

Now select your problematic cue (the one to fade out the fixtures) and tap GO to proceed into that cue. Select your moving fixtures, then tap the Home icon (top left of the internal touchscreen). This homes & tags all parameters for the selected fixture(s). Now, we want to un-tag only the Intensity parameter so that the intensity of the fixtures still go to zero (e.g. that information is preserved), instead of previous values tracking through. To do this, tap the Z/Shift key, then tap 'Intensity' above the first encoder wheel - it should switch to have a dark background. That parameter is now un-tagged.

Now tap the UPDATE key (you may have to hold it for the Update Window to appear on the internal touchscreen, this behaviour can be adjusted in SETUP -> Settings -> Record & Update), ensure 'Remove' has a red stripe (enabled) and Smart Tag has a blue stripe (disabled). Also make sure that 'Cue Only' has a red stripe so that we are only dealing with and affecting this cue. Tap your Master GO button to submit the update.

You should now find that the fixtures fade out without changing position and colour. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Archie

[Zulu]

Hi, Archie

thanks for your consideration on this. I’ve just tied it on Phantom, at home, and it seems to work just as you described. Although I can’t really test it until I apply it at the theatre. (no lighting rig at home!)

as this problem exists on several cues in my stack which use the moving lights, must I apply this solution to each following cue? Or is there a global solution for the entire Playback? (I notice your recommendation includes ensuring “This Cue Only” is enabled.

thanks again, Zulu.

[Brian F]

I’m a relative newbie and still getting my head around a few of the concepts (remove being one of them). A few days ago I managed to accidentally record another playback into my main cue stack while I was editing. I’d recently saved the show so the quickest option for me was to reload a previous save as it was in the middle of a rehearsal. I now realise how I could have relatively quickly removed the offending fixtures from that explanation. I vaguely recall however seeing seeing source options at the top of the update / record screen so I’m now also wondering if that can be used in a similar way to remove the incorrect playback as a source? Is that possible for the next time I make a similar mistake?