Default position of moving heads

[O Thompson]

Morning all,

 

Im hoping this is a quick one, and down to my own oversight... Im trying to alter the default position of some moving heads, to prevent seeing a move when playbacks are raised. I have saved both an updated home position and default position, but only the home seems to function. When each fixture is selected, and i hit home, they move to the saved position... however they seem to default to a previously set position at rest.

 

Any ideas?

[O Thompson]

Seems this is linked to a preset key i had programmed for RGB mixing. Disabling this allowed me to update the default position.

[scottydog75]

Ensure Pan and Tilt are tagged (blue background).

Record --> Home --> Default should achieve what you are trying to do.

[Archie D]

Hi @O Thompson,

You probably found that this was because SmartTag was enabled in the Record Options window.

Recording home values worked fine, but default values did not because SmartTag ignores fixtures with zero intensity. Your home values had the fixtures at an intensity higher than zero, therefore they were included in the record operation.

Another solution to not seeing your fixtures move when your playback is raised is by viewing the playback settings (SETUP + Playback Button) -> Button Function -> Go (Snap) -> OK. Now, you can tap the playback's button to prep your fixtures (position, beam, shape and colour) and then raise the fader to bring intensities up. If you wish to preserve the current setting for button function, you can instead change the shifted button function (what happens when you hold SHIFT and tap the playback's button). To do this, hold SHIFT while tapping the new button function. Now, hold SHIFT and tap the playback's button to prepare your fixtures.

If you wish to use this method instead (it allows for multiple different positions of fixtures with lots of playbacks), you can restore your fixture's default values to their default values by selecting them and tapping DELETE -> Home -> Default.

I hope this helps.

Archie