Is there a 250 spot that will mix color like this?

bdunard,

Yes, a wash will be about from 40 brighter than a spot.
You have a lot more light being projected along a bigger beam of light.
However, that's all a wash fixture does.. color change.. but the beam of light it projects is impressive.
Most rigs require a 1 to 1 ratio where you have 1 wash to every spot. So if you have 8 Spots you should also have 8 washes.

But with the Frost filter of the Design Spot's it helps resolve not having to buy so many washes. Still the wash effect of a design spot cuts down a lot more light from the fixture. up to 20% of the light.. So when you compare a spot in wash mode or a wash.. the Wash will blow it away..

Now comes the CMY... We just released the Design Spot 300E.
Its a Design Spot 250Pro with CMY color mixing! This fixture will give you the color changing effect you see on the video PLUS!! gobos, prisms, Iris and wash! You can use the IRIS out of focus plus the CMY efffect to generate what you see in the video. and not lose out on gobos!

Best regards,

Is the "rainbow effect" that is listed on the elation site for the design wash 250 the same smooth color changing that I see in the video? Or is the color change in the video a carefully programmed chase?

The design 300 looks great! However I don't think I can pull the trigger on a fixture that is that much more. It's a bit out of my range at this point as I see it lists for $2k more than the Design Spot 250. At the end of the day I would like to have more beams of light I think than just a couple of bright lights.

yes you can program the washes to do a rainbow chase like that but it will take a controller like compu live to program it. The rainbow effect is revered to as a color wheel scroll. Not a cmy effect. sincerely,

Nope.. its not the same.. you need CMY and you need a controller that has an offset feature.
This is found in Compu Like Jingles said, and aslo SD3.

Best regards,

I think there is an offset tutorial on youtube. I need to check that out.

I would look into the DS 250 Wash for that effect on the cheap. It is the cheapest CMY moving head out I believe. The CMY might not be that punchy on dark colors do to the 250w lamp however. If you are really set on that effect, and it is a great effect, I would look into the washes. Remember, washes can be used for other things too. Stuff like fading in between colors for stage washes smoothly vs color scrolling which you would need twice as many fixtures to do without being seen scrolling is a big plus.

Just remember this too, CMY, while great, isn't very efficient on how is goes about creating color. Quite a bit of light is lost vs using a gel or dichroic to get the color you want. This is why you generally see it in higher powered lights only.

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Originally posted by Elation_Pro:
Nope.. its not the same.. you need CMY and you need a controller that has an offset feature.
This is found in Compu Like Jingles said, and aslo SD3.

Best regards,

Can't find the section of the Compu Live manual that shows how to use "offset" feature. I also thought there was a youtube video for this but can't find it either. Anyone that can point me to some informative articles or videos on offset programming I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

bdunard wassup? here is a video i did a little while back on the "effects generator" for compu live. this video has audio (me talkng) so give it a watch and see if it answers some of your questions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CalrO6z_Ne0
sincerely,

The video is great. I didn't even know there was an fx editor. Looks like I should be able to do a alot with that. Of course I still have questions...

1. Once you create your effect, why do you go to easy time to save the scene? What is easy time?

I am sure a lot of this would make sense if I had a few movers and could experiment and see what is going on.

Jingles,

I am recreating your youtube video and I am curious how when you touch one fader it effects all the lights (i.e. when you open the dimmer it opens all the dimmers on all the lights) When I do it it only opens one light. Is there something that you did to link them?

oh ya sorry I guess I Musca forgot that part in the video. Sorry. Yes you simply hold down the shift key and it will move all the relative faders for the same fixture types. For e ample if u have 4 ds250's and 2 power spot 250's and u click on a ds 250 fader and hold shift it will move all the ds 250 faders for that channel. Sincerely,

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Originally posted by bdunard:
Jingles,

I am recreating your youtube video and I am curious how when you touch one fader it effects all the lights (i.e. when you open the dimmer it opens all the dimmers on all the lights) When I do it it only opens one light. Is there something that you did to link them?

Nevermind I tried holding Shift and that did it.

Ok, last question before I go to bed. Since I don't have any moving head fixtures just yet it was hard to justify buying the software. However, I threw up some of DLED 36's and I can do some great effects with these that are not possible on my show designer 1. Ok tell me how to accomplish this in the real world.

1. I want to create a dimmer chase for Design LED 36's that I can save and then overlay on any of my other static DLED 36 scenes.

i.e. Say I have 3 scenes programmed for my DLED's.
Scene 1 all red
Scene 2 all blue
Scene 3 all green

When I am playing live I press a midi foot controller to recall the different scenes on my show designer 1. On the show designer if I only adjust the dimmer channel to strobe then it only saves that channel data. So I only adjust the dimmer channel so it will strobe. I then save it as scene 4. So now if I select scene 1 all my DLED's turn red, if I then hit scene 4 all the DLED's stay red and strobe. I would call Scene 4 an overlay but I don't know if that is the correct term.

That all being said how would I create a dimmer chase for DLEDs and then save as scene that would overlay another scene?

Thanks!

btw, how is the midi going? Hopefully soon I will be able to tell you how it integrates with external controller.

are you talking about creating this on the software or SD?

I'm talking about doing this with Compu Live. I'm not sure what SD is?

I think he means SD3.. ShowDesigner 3

I want recreate this in Compu 1024.

ok since you want to make this effect on the software here is what you do. on your dled36 page create your scenes like you had specified and then make a "switch" it is the middle button on the top of the page in between scene and cycle. ok once you have your switch edit window up. (click on the switch and then go to buttons and then select edit) open the effects generator and on the dimmer channel make a sinus wave using efx gen. and if you had wanted to you can make all the other channels "off" leaving just the dimer channel linked to easy time after you create your effect. by doing this it will take any scene u created and apply the sinus wave to the dimmers in that scene regardless of color. make sense? if not ill be more than happy to post up some screen shots as a step by step. sincerely,

Is there a page that lists all the scenes that are programmed in which you can click on any scene and view it in the 3D visualizer?

I tried what you said but had some problems.

I created a scene with all my DLED 36's in red.

Then I opened the switch page and selected empty and link to easy step and click the ok+edit button. I then opened the FX generator and applied a dimmer effect. (All the while I am doing this I have 6 DLEDs with red beams showing in my 3D viz). So after I click on the dimmer chase I notice that it is not showing it in the 3D viz...I must be doing something wrong.

btw, I ordered the software today. Largely based on the customer support that I have received from you. Not being a lighting expert and this being my first software application in the lighting realm I can say your help and punctuality has been unrivaled. A special "thank you" to you!

OH No problem! its what i do. lol. ya you missed a step there. if you made a effect using just the dimmers and had all the other channels linked to easy step they will take over the channels in the scene you are overriding with your switch. so try it again this time do not link to easy step like i did in the video. this is something different. leave all the channels "OFF" adn then go into the efx gen then create just the dimmer sine wave, then save it close the switch, hit ur scene button with the red and then hit the switch u made and ill bet you it does a red sine wave! try it. oh BTW what version did you order? sincerely,

Should I see the dimmer effect when I am programming the switch? At this point I am still not seeing it.

I ordered the 1024 EC.

Is there a page that lists all the scenes?

umm you can turn on a color to see if that is what u want to but make sure you turn it off before saving other wise that color will be in the switch too. scene page list? i dont think so. master page perhaps but if you have numerous pages you will either have to save EVERYTHING to the master page or scroll you fixture pages.congratulation's on your purchase.
sincerely,

Question regarding the best way to organize scenes.

I will have 20 or so scenes.

I will have 20 or so switches that I can press at any given time to give my scenes a different look with gobos, prisms, dimmer fx editor chases, cmy fx editor chases, etc....

I see that when I save a scene it puts a button that set of fixtures.

If I make a scene that use three pages (say design wash 250, dled 36, and generic dimmer) where should I save that button for that scene. It shouldn't just go on the design wash page. Shouldn't there be a master page of scenes that one can quickly refrence the scenes that they have programmed and quickly view by selecting that scene? This would also be a great place to right+click on the scene and change the midi note address.

As you can tell I am struggling a bit to see how the hierarchy of scenes are located and recalled in Compu.

there is a master page. you cna make all the scenes u want spread out throughout all the fixture pages. then select them all or turn them all on and then go to the master page click on the red tab where it says "master" and then go to the top of the page and click on your new scene button and a RED box will open up and this is for the master page. click as you see now check box and then hit save. let me know if you run into any other problems. ill be away from my desk for the rest of the day but i can respond via emails. sincerely,

I am tring to create a rainbow effect using the effect editor for my design wash 250's. However, when I open the switch window I can't move any of the faders like I can when following the steps in your window. Should you be able to move the faders in the switch window. I need to be able to do that so I can open the shutters and see what the effect is doing. Thanks!

open the shutters then get efx gen going.

I keep trying but I am going to need more help creating a switch with a dimmer chase. No matter what I seem to do I can't see what I am doing in the Viz. I opened the shutters, then selected new switch and I still can't see what I am doing. I might need step by step instructions because this isn't going well.

Got it to work but I can't see what I am doing. If I press the "center" button to turn on the fixtures before going into create and save the switch it just shows up with white fixtures. I am sure there is something going on that I am not doing.

hey bdunard do you have yahoo or aim messenger? i am jingles 8302 on yahoo or jingleslightguru on aim. if so hit me up if not we can take care of this here. sincerely,