Chases

[Jazzy]

Hi all! I have 3 Frog desks as hire stock (Fat & Leap) and so far I have been happy with them, bar the live chase speed edit issue but with the latest software upgrade all is right again. I was wondering if it would be possible to have individual fade and wait times on each step or even just wait times.

[ice]

I was wondering about that same thing myself, a kind of dwell time each step would be rather cool; but i guess it would take a load of programming work? (don't really know how you implemented it?)

Oh well; just program the same scene twice; it'll run twice as long

[Jazzy]

We have a couple of Q Commanders and that is the way their chase system works, I would imagine that the Frog range of desks would be able to do this and a lot more. I know you can do this with the cue stack using auto triggers and jumps but that is more suited to experienced users. Somtimes as I recently experienced just to be able to push up a sub master is more suitable for a client who has no knowledge of lighting desks or equipment and just needs an effect to run, usually as there is no bugdet to have an opperator there.

[K-Nine]

I'm sure this has been mentioned several times before in these forums and if the search facility worked properly I could probably find it quite quickly :?

 

You can achieve a similar effect by linking together a number of scene memories with auto triggers and having a jump at the end - takes a bit more thought on the part of the operator, but then so would adding a load of extra timing information in the programming of every step of a chase :twisted:

 

Frog Reference No 5347 - Individual wait/fade/dwell times for steps in chase memories - to be reviewed.