Tagged With "DMX frame rate"
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Re: Compu Live Questions
Hi John, Thank you for your responses as well. 1. I tried what you said and made my chase a Scene using Easy Step. After that I was able to control the speed via the Live Button Toolbar. So, in other words, I did not need to do anything further using Easy Time. I tried it any way (yellow button making the channels Easy Time), but it just seemed to mess up my chase, so I went back to making all channels Easy Step. I notice that the F7 and F8 keys allow me to adjust the speed up and down. Is...
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Re: Playing Drums and Triggering Scenes - Can I Do It?
Let me take a look into it for ya. Ill get back to ya tonight hopefully. Do you have a time frame that you might need an answer in? If anyone else knows please by all means answer. jthtiger
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Re: Proton Color what is the SD2 profile setup for?
Sorry I posted in wrong forum, I just saw "Elation fixtures" did not realize it was just for moving fixtures... Anyhow never mind, I just created a new .ssl profile, and made the Dimmer channel to "DIM", and not to Snap after fade, works great now! I was told I could also change the colors of the Gels in these units, what kind of glue would you suggest to attach the new gels to the rotating frame?
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Re: Radiance hazer profile
Yes, I need a CompuLive profile. It uses two channels, according to the manual, one is for hazer rate, the other one for fan speed. The ma nual does not specifies the DMX value for both channels. And the main thing is it is works everytime as I hook it up to the Operator 192
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Re: Using Cycles for Song Cues
John, When I say "Chase Cycle", what I mean is I have created a Cycle that contains a series of Scenes or steps (i.e. Red Scene, Blue Scene, Green Scene. etc.) in a certain order. Each step is defined as "GO" (instead of a prescribed time) within the cycle to activate it . As you know, the PAGE DOWN button acts as the "GO" command when working with Cycles. So knowing that, you helped me a while back to link the PAGE DOWN command to a MIDI note/signal through the use of the MIDI controller.
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Re: Using Cycles for Song Cues
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Matchless1: John, When I say "Chase Cycle", what I mean is I have created a Cycle that contains a series of Scenes or steps (i.e. Red Scene, Blue Scene, Green Scene. etc.) in a certain order. Each step is defined as "GO" (instead of a prescribed time) within the cycle to activate it . As you know, the PAGE DOWN button acts as the "GO" command when working with Cycles. So knowing that, you helped me a while back to link the PAGE DOWN command to a MIDI note/signal...
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Re: Chauvet Scorpion LG-60 and Colorstrip
I just had a thought. You were saying that the strips flicker. Is this a steady flicker or is it intermittent? If it is intermittent this will be the norm. If it is a steady flicker then check DMX channel 3. This channel controls the flash rate and may be active. Just a thought Mark of the Wild
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Re: Opti Tri Par "Flicker"
Were they shooting in 24p, 30p, or 60i? The issue might be they shot in a faster FPS mode which caused the effect. The refresh rate on the TFT vs the Plasma might have been different and thus caused the difference in view. Last thing is when you put the R98 over the fixtures, did you run the channels back up to full? Since LEDs dim with PWM (Pulse-width modulation), they basically strobe really fast so that eyes perceive them as 'dim'. If this is the case, then it would lead me to believe...
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Re: Bored, so I figured I would post some photos
Those are ETC Source Four ParNels. Great fixtures, work like a Fresnel but are in a Par frame. Zoom range is 25-45 degrees. They also put out more light then a 1000w 6" Fresnel does with a 750w lamp, coming closer to a 2k 8". The beam isn't as soft and even as a Fresnel however. It also has less intensity do to the refractor then an 'equally' lensed S4 Par would. But since it puts out a circle and has a zoom, much easier to work with then Pars a lot of times. I still, however, use Pars for...
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Re: DMX Operator Slider problem
Well, now we apparently know the hourly rate they charge for repairs. Regardless, glad to hear all is better. Another thing to keep in mind when it comes to repair issues. But I'm not anxious to crack open gear for no valid reason in my environment. My recent similar thing was with my truck. Replaced batteries(needed it), still wouldn't start. Either a bad starter relay or solenoid. Got both parts for like $60, which was $20 less than the mechanic said the relay ALONE would be. Replaced the...
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Re: HZ-300 concerns
More updates. Just odd things. Sort of leading to a "ghost in the building" sort of thing. 1: OK, my day got way screwed. Depends how you look at things. I have to cancel a lot of things based on other things and then cancel more things based on still more things and now I gotta cram a lotta work into a little time because some dumb dink decided to hand off a project she didn't want to really work on in order to get lazy on something else. Just riddle me this: How the f*&$ am I supposed...
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Re: Changing gobos on E-Spot
Does sound like a great exhibit. Well all we can say at the moment is that the E Spot is in its new stage, meaning we just started shipping them so our failure rate is set at zero. we won't know what if anything goes bad on them for a while. The concept of the e-spot is to eliminate any failures. Its a revolution of all issues that cause a unit to fail. its light weight and cool inside.. 2 of the major issues with moving lights is the intense heat inside and the weight these movers put on...
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Re: Design Wash 60 question
Hey Jingles, Any update on the profile for Desogn Wash 60? What about any news on the ability to change strobe rate for global strobe button? Thanks Mike
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Re: Design Wash 60 question
They intentionally made the program to be on the simple side, and not have any options for the globals. This is something they don't plan on changing, (I've asked). I do something similar to what Jingles suggested and make a cuelist with the strobe rate of my choice and assign it to a playback fader or button. It works just as well, and if you decide to get a hardware controller, mapping or re-mapping the controller to not use globals isn't that big of a deal. Hope this helps. Mike
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Re: Question to any company owners?
Well, here's some useless injection: Idiots around here throw 4 Par 56's on a floor mounted square truss section with a dimmer/power pack running a random patter. Repeat on the other side of the stage. The Asians around here pay $800/night for that crap. For sound, they whine at me bringing in sound AND lighting AND monitors for $800. Go figure. For me, I just come up with a flate rate and leae it at that. Something I can live with. If I went with the 10% number, I would be charging...
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Re: DMX Beginner 101 Question
Using 1~4 and 5~8 is a neat trick! The fact that you figured out you could use 5-8 shows that you are sharp and are really getting the hang of DMX. Scences in a chase change from one scene to the next based on (1) "speed" (the duration that each scene is on), (2) "tempo" (tap the Tap Sync button to set the rate of change), or (3) sound (press the audio button). For audio you can use either the mic built into the controller or you can connect an audio source. Control sensitivity to sound with...
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Re: Venue Par 64
Hi James. I to am having this same problem on my Mac. I followed the path but mine is not the same as what you posted. Which was: ../Users/user/Elation/emulation/Personality profiles/user My path is Users/user/Elation/ at this point I can go into Emulation folder but there is no Personality profiles folder. The folders in there are: CACHE, COLOURS, LANGUAGES, LOGS, & Midimaps folders. I can instead go into the COMMON folder instead of the emulation & there is a PERSONALITIES folder.
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Re: Venue Par 64
Ok. Let me double and triple check the profile. Maybe it is locking on a value for a small strobe rate. Sincerely,
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Re: E-Node 8
Hi @ CaFo In chamsys ( desk/ Software ), set the: Reduced rate output on " Continuous " Setup- View Settings- Hardware- Reduced rate output Hope this will help you Jean
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Re: PRob EMS witheet pan movement and chase
Hello Joel, It's really not a DMX problem, because when i slow down the bpm-rate the movement the movingheads make a nicer movement. The problem is that everytime the show steps to the next scene, the movement in that scene step to the beginning of the movement. Can you explane what the best way is to create a moving dimmerchase, i would like to create that show with a pan or cirkel movement, because that's the best way to create an nice movement Thanks in advance Hein Hoeks
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Re: Emulator fixture request
I want to control the fogger to run at a contant rate rather than short burst.
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Re: Programming adj lights
Make a chase that does what you are describing and include that chase in a scene. Try a 4 step chase that points the lights at opposite corners of the room at each of the 4 corners. Set the speed to slow and fade rate at 100%. The two lights should move along the sides. You can have them move in opposite directions or in the same direction. If you do it with 2 chases you can even run the 2 lights at different speeds.
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Re: LED Flicker
The frequency at which the LED's operate. LED's dim by what is known as Pulse-Width Modulation or PWM. Basically, to get an LED to dim, it simply strobes faster than the eye can see (although some people can actually see it, like flickering on a computer monitor at 60 Hz). Cameras pick up on this though since they operate at a much lower frame rate than our eyes do. So in order to make a LED flicker free, the answer is simply strobe it even faster so the camera can't tell. This costs more...
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Blizzard HOTBOX exa Profiles
Are there profiles available for the Blizzard Hotbox exa LED PAR for the Emulation controller? I am especially interested in the 10-channel version.
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Spot Briteq BT-Theatre 60FC Black LED theaterspot
Spot Briteq BT-Theatre 60FC Black LED theaterspot I have got an demo. The spot Briteq BT-Theatre 60FC Black LED theaterspot is very good. We want to buy 10 of them but without fixture we can’t use them with Emulation. Can you do the job? If we have the fixture, how can we update Emulation with teh fixture, Best regards, Deschamps Koen.
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Design TriBrick 36 LED/ Stage Setter 24 Troubleshooting
I am setting up a row of Tribrick 36 LED with a Stage Setter 24 console. All of the fixtures are set to 4 channel mode, Address 008. No matter what I do I cannot get the bricks to see the DMX from the console, the display continues to flash. All the other fixtures in my rig are responding to the data from the console. We have tried home running to every fixture in the row and they all flash, no DMX. What could this be?
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eNode 4 Configuration - DMX Port "NET" setting
I'm new to setting up the eNode 4 ethernet node. I have a network setup with 12 - eNode 4 units, each of them needs to to be configured for all 4 DMX ports set to output. I need 4 ports to be assigned to 2 universes, 2 ports for universe "x" and the other 2 ports to universe "x+1". When I go to the DMX port option on the menu, there is a "NET" setting and I'm not sure what number to use on all the ports for the 12 units? Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance, Perry Beatty
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Choosing DMX for Musical water fountain
Hello guys I want to make a simple musical water fountain for my garden. I aim to use around 40 LED s , each 6 watt (the ones that for swimming pools that contain 6 of one watt led s ) , and 40 water fountain nozzles (electrical valves) . Should I use DMX for such a project ? Should I buy only dmx-compatible LED s ? Can DMX also control nozzles ? I would appreciate your help , Thanks in advance.
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RE: Cyber Pack Help
Help! I just purchased four Cyber Pack 20a dimmers and can't understand the user manual at all! (what is a "note number"?) I am familiar with DMX and have used many different types of dimmers, but the documentation for this product leaves much to be desired. I'm wondering if anyone has seen more thorough documentation online that I can access. I'm trying to configure the units to work sequentially so the first pack is DMX 1-4, the next is 5-8, etc. What is the correct menu/button sequence to...
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Setup Help
Recently received the Gobar Plus IR and trying to hook it up to a Stage Setter 8 Console and can’t seem to get any results. Could be an issue with basic setup that I’m not aware of, as I’m incredibly new. DMX our from console to DMX in on gobar. Can’t figure anything else out from there. Thank you.
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Help with Spot 5r
Hey guys, i just got 2 spot 5r's with emulation software. So far i got the unt working partially. Heres where im having issues: 1. Gobo shake is greyed out 2. Zoom is grey 3. Color Mix is completely grey 4. The only thing in color fix that is operational are the colors and scal 5. Custom is grey 6. In Misc, scal, baal, fan, fog and all buttons on the right side are inop 7. Frame is all greyed out. Also, when i create a "scene" i select the fixture that i want to control, then i mess around...
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Memory Error on Show Designer 2
Howdy, I'm working a festival this weekend and the production company brought a Show Designer 2, Revision 1.20 M3. When trying to save scenes, the console hangs on "Recording... please wait" forever (I've waited up to 15 minutes.) When recalling scenes that do appear to record, it gives a memory error and does not recall anything. Is this fixable in a short time frame? The console claims it has 900+kb of free memory. Thanks, Jeff
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Compu Live Questions
I've been trying out Elation's Compu Live software for the past few weeks so that I can decide if it will work for my needs before I buy it. I've read the manual, but there are still a few simple things I'm having trouble doing. Can anyone please help? 1. Control chase rate live for a Cycle via a hotkey on my keyboard. 1.1 Currently, I have only been able to set the time b/n steps in a Cycle while I’m in the Edit mode of the Cycle. This is very cumbersome. I would like to just be able to...
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Generic profile for a 5 chnl LED PAR can (MBT)
I look forward to participating in this forum. I have been watching for some time as I wrestled with the purchasing decision to move to a computer based controller, and whether the $300 entry level would work for me or did I need the more expensive 1024. I am a one man band, guitar, bass pedals, doing covers in bars and occasional outdoor/holiday shows. I wanted to improve the performance by adding lights, but they needed to be controlled by my feet. I bought 12 MBT LEDs par cans (5...
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External MIDI Trigger for BMP Rate
Hi, I'm running CompuLive 06. I currently have chase switches (Step 1 = Red, Step 2 = Blue, Step 3 = Green, etc.) set up using Easy Time. In the Easy Time editor I have linked the appropriate channels to BPM, as explained to me by John Lopez in a previous post a while back. This allows me to control the chase rate via the Audio Analysis interface using "Analysis", "Manual", or "Learning". I want to take it one step further now... Is there any way to allow an external MIDI device to control...
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Show Designer 3
Just installed a new SD3 in a club. Great board ! Two questions : If you are running a shape chase on intel. lights, is there anyway to have the audio or beat function control the rate or advance the steps of the chase ? Secondly, if you are in show mode and have it set to automatically advance scenes, and you manually "grab" an intel. fixture and use the joystick to position the beam, as soon as the next scene is called the fixture you have "grabbed" goes back to the programmed...
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OctostripII DMX question
I have 3 sets of Octostrips installed in custom built staging, a total of 24 strips. There are 3 separate controller packs (PD-60). I am able to control each of the fixtures individually using American DJ MyDmx software, however i run into a problem when using channel 6 "audio strobe". Each of the 3 controller packs seems to put out at a different rate. I know the PD-60s include master/slave mode however i am unable to access this menu while in DMX mode. Is there a way to sync the 3 packs so...
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Programming a Strobe
Hey guys, long time no talk. i have a 2 channel dmx strobe that i have been using for a while. Now that i have some time off from the road, i am trying to program it better through compu. I programmed it through compu by just creating a new BLANK page with 2 channels and then setting up a on/off switch to activate the strobe. During my live shows, i will open up the switch editor and manipulate the strobe rate and intensity manually through the appropriate channel faders. I often strobe my...
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Easy Show timeline not scrolling
I am having problems with Easy Show using the 11/08 version. The timeline will not scroll correctly when playing back a show using an mp3 file. You never know when one frame ends if it is going to move to the next frame in the timeline or not. At first I thought it must be that my machine isn't powerful enough to keep up graphically. Then I thought maybe my antivirus software or some other process was slowing it down. After deleting stuff and trying on several laptops I was finally able to...
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Manual scene crossfades
I am looking at the DMX Operator and the Magic 260. I have Wiedermark LED Par 64's. I want to be able to set up static scenes and crossfade them at playback time. IE. start at black out, press scene 1, scene 1 fades in at rate of Fade slider, press scene 2, scene 1 fades out & scene 2 fades in at rate of Fade slider. Will either of these two consoles do this?
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Opti Tri Par "Flicker"
On a recent set up day at a Stanley/Black&Decker meeting I had 6 Opti Tri Pars behind a lecturn as uplights on dark blue velour drape . In 4 channel mode the DP set the master at 50% and the RGB around 45% , it came out looking blue . Don't know why he chose this route but that's what he liked . As I was about to leave for the day the DP told me the uplights were flickering . He brought me to the makeshift editing room to view some of the test tape they shot . It was not a "flicker" or...
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DMX Operator Pro! - Need Thoughts/Ideas!
Just purchased the Op Pro for an install, and have been spending some time getting to know the console. Overall, I am thoroughly impressed with the intuitive operation, layout, and expected functionality. It has certainly met my expectations. I have made a few observations that I wanted to run by everyone to see what their thoughts/input would be. 1. When programming chases on the 'PAR' side, I notice that no matter what 'hold' time (speed) is programmed into each step of the chase, it will...
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sd3 and ds 250 programming.
I have purchased 8 ds 250's and 1 sd3.If I program 10 position's with say a 2-3 sec fade rate all in white,I can't then add color or effects on the fly without accessing fixtures's then using encoder wheels.So what I mean is if I choose p1 then add all colors to that scene so 8 color scene's.I can't make a move to another scene and drop in the color,it stay's white.Is their a way of doing this,I don't have ds 250 fixture profile,so no presets(is that part of problem?).And is their new...
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Need Help Elation DMX Partner & ADJ Delux scan 250
IM in a tight spot and have a customer requesitng i be able to use my delxescan 250 (x4) for moving spot light.. i bought a Elation DMX partner along with the set pre programmed for the Deluxscan. THe controler works for changing scenes. black out and basic strobe feature. that is the extent im able to use it for. Im running a laptop with windows vista and a rs232 serial to USB adaptor . I have the serial adaptor set on com2 and the baud rate set on 38400. The controller shows send when i...
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Need to know of Martin profiles are available
Hello, My existing DMX console died after 12 years of service, and I need a new controller "yesterday" (well, by Friday, but I don't like being under the wire) I have qty 4 each of the following fixtures that I need to control. - Martin mac250 Wash Mac 250 Wash link - Martin mac250 Krypton Mac 250 Krypton link - Martin Mac250 Entour Mac 250 Entour link ---- With that said, could anyone at ADJ or Elation tell me if these profiles exist already? I searched the net as much as was feasible and...
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IMG Stage Line
Hello, i need some IMG Stage Line Setups. IMG Stage Line Color-150 Ch. 1 Colour DMX value - Colour/function 0 - 15 - no light 16 - 31 - White 32 - 47 - red 48 - 63 - yellow 64 - 79 - blue 80 - 95 - green 96 - 111 - amber 112 - 127 - Orange 128 - 143 - light-green 144 - 159 - light-blue 160 - 175 - magenta 176 - 191 - pink 192 - 223 - Continuous change of Colours (rainbow effect) from slow to fast 224 - 255 - Strobe effect from slow to fast _______________________________________ IMG Stage...
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MIDI Time Code - Frame Rate settings?
Is there any way to adjust the frame rate for MIDI Time Code in Compu Live? It isn't working very smoothly within a cycle and I think I need to adjust some settings somewhere, but I can't seem to find any place within Compu Live to do so. Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions!
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e-node8
Hi, I've just purchased a e-node8 artnet box. i've connected it to my chamsys lighting pc with all the settings within the little manual you get. and when i have a fixture on connected to the unit i can get the magicq software to talk to the fixture but there is a delay of about 1 to 2 seconds. i don't know if the baud rate has anything to do with it, its only flashing at 250, and link light flashes as well as the signal link light too.. is there anything im doing wrong? has anyone else come...
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DP-415 Dimmer/Switch Pack Blinking in OFF position
I have a brand new DP-415 that I am hoping will control a pair of TriGem Moonflower fixtures, a couple Chauvet LED Pinspots and a pair of Micro Galaxian lasers. I have the pack set up for switch mode with dip-switch 10 set to "on". With none of the channels turned on and no leds showing that any of the 4 channels are on, all my fixtures are slightly blinking at a regular rate on all 4 edison plugs. The blinking continues whether DMX cables are plugged in or not. I have ordered 4 Dummy Load...