Orientation of Moving Heads

scottMember

I have 4 Am DJ spot 250's which I am going to hang on a truss at the rear of the stage (Just like an old par can setup). I am controlling them with a magic 260 console. I have been playing around with compu show just for ideas and I noticed that the fixture gets oriented in the 3d viewer with the 0,0 pan & tilt as facing the right (which would also be the way the led display faces). Is this how they should be setup? I just assumed the display would face front to see the readout. It kind of makes sense to face the side because facing front they cannot move right from 0,0; they would have to make a 180 degree turn to be able to sweep back and forth, but if you use this logic, then they should probably be oriented facing the rear wall to get the fullest range of motion. What is the proper way to orient the lights? Am I thinking about this too hard? I hope this post makes sense.

6/21/119:31 PM

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Jingles8302Admin

That is just the default orientation of the 3D fixture. The 3D object doesn't really know the proper side for the home position. What I do is in compu show position the fixture to where it pointing straight out like tilt is at 90 degree and then move the actual fixture to match. But i do remember I had pre programmed part of a show with one of the fixtures with me and I had it all good in the 3D and on the real fixture in front of me but once I got them set up on the truss and was running through my scenes I realized I had to invert the pan and tilt. So I would record palettes in Compu show for specific positions. The 3D can be very accurate but all the variables have to be exact. Hope this helps and welcome to the forums.
Sincerely,

6/22/1112:55 AM

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studio42Member

Sorry to hop in late. Wanted to lend some support.

I have a pair of Chauvet Q-Spot 150's. I had to figure out how to orient them so that what I saw with MyDMX(now Compu show) would match what the lights are doing. It was a combination of orientation of the light(physical positioning) coupled with pan and tilt configuration on the fixture itself. One that was figured out, I CLEARLY marked and labelled BOTH lights to ensure proper orientation. Also, the light's configuration is clearly labelled on the fixture as well in the unlikely event that the configuration should get changed or lost. HOWEVER, that is unlikely because the light is never powered on until after it's been set and nobody on my crew is brave enough to touch the panel!

You may have to play with the light configuration.

7/8/116:50 PM

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