Issues recording effects into cue-stack

[droiddk]

Hi all

Playing around with effects, this time with real lights (but also using Phantom ZerOs when at home). Playing with 4 RGB LEDs. Auto generated effect “Sparkle – red” and “Sparkle – green” looks good so I record these two into Playback One, cue 1 and cue 2. Going into “Playbacks” I raise Playback fader 1 and “Sparkle – red” looks like when choosing the effect using the palette. Now I press the button and next cue is triggered, the cue with the reference to the “Sparkle – green” effect. “Sparkle – green” starts but it doesn’t look right, its not 100% the same as when choosing it directly from the palette. In DMX-output (looking at one LED fixture) I can see what is going on: with “Sparke – red” (which is running correctly): Red is at 100% (DMX-value 255) and green and blue are taken to 100% at random intervals synchronized. When I trigger the next cue, the one with “Sparkle – green”, green is taken to 100% and red and blue are randomly taken to 100% but red and blue are not synchronized. The same happens with I take the cue-stack to the first cue using the button, one channel at 100% and two others channels randomly but not synchronized.

Same output when Smart Tag is on and off when recording.

What can I do if I want to record the sparkle-effects into a cue-stack and keeping the looks as when using the palette directly?

Kind Regards droiddk

[Edward Z88]

Hi @droiddk

Thank you very much for your description of what you are seeing.

In this situation, you are starting a colour effect, when there is already a colour effect running. This means depending on the colour values of the previous cue, there is no guarantee the colour effect will be synchronised. To ensure a colour effect is synchronised, you will need to go into the effect, from a cue where there is no colour effect running.

Therefore, if cue 1 was your Red Sparkle, and cue 2 was your Green Sparkle, you could have a cue 1.5, which stops the Red Sparkle effect, to allow you to then go into a synchronised Green Sparkle effect in cue 2.

Hope this helps.

Edward

[droiddk]

1 hour ago, Edward Z88 said:

Hi @droiddk

Thank you very much for your description of what you are seeing.

In this situation, you are starting a colour effect, when there is already a colour effect running. This means depending on the colour values of the previous cue, there is no guarantee the colour effect will be synchronised. To ensure a colour effect is synchronised, you will need to go into the effect, from a cue where there is no colour effect running.

Therefore, if cue 1 was your Red Sparkle, and cue 2 was your Green Sparkle, you could have a cue 1.5, which stops the Red Sparkle effect, to allow you to then go into a synchronised Green Sparkle effect in cue 2.

Hope this helps.

Edward

Damn you are too fast Edward. I almost came up with something like that shortly after I posted the topic, and have been think about that issue for some days now

Thanks, as always

Kind Regards droiddk

EDIT: I use Auto-trigger so sparkle-effect 2 (cue 3) is triggered when the "reset-cue" (cue 2) is triggered, seems to be working fine.

 

 

[Edward Z88]

Hi @droiddk

31 minutes ago, droiddk said:

Damn you are too fast Edward. I almost came up with something like that shortly after I posted the topic, and have been think about that issue for some days now

Thanks, as always

No problem at all.

31 minutes ago, droiddk said:

EDIT: I use Auto-trigger so sparkle-effect 2 (cue 3) is triggered when the "reset-cue" (cue 2) is triggered, seems to be working fine.

Makes sense - saves an extra press of the Go button 🙂

Edward