Conventionals

performance stage · Post by **performance stage** » Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:08 pm

Ok,

Perhaps this has been covered. But please give me the best tips for programming conventional pars. In other words, how do you program a 60k show, and separate all the colors, etc? I have always "jury rigged" it, but I'm sick of doing it this way. I've noticed the program will "blend" all the par 64's together if you label them all as such. If I just patch 60 pars in, there doesn't seem to be a way to effectively group them by color.

HELP!! Thanks

Post by **simonB** » Thu Nov 22, 2012 10:13 am

Hi

You could either create a different fixture profile for each color so you have a different tab for each color, or you could arrange the fixtures into groups within the fixtures window.

Although you're using DVC2, the group window is similar in DVC3 and the manual describes it much better:
http://www.daslight.com/online_manuals/ ... dfPgY7.htm

performance stage · Post by **performance stage** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:29 pm

We tried the groups this weekend and it worked pretty well I must say. After we get our dimmer rack plugged into all the Soco, we just use the master DMX to identify each light, write it down, then created a group. No problem. The only issue I see with this method is that the chases might be a little funny?

Thanks,

Mike

Post by **simonB** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 1:26 pm

Even if the fixtures are arranged in groups, you can still select individual fixtures for editing and create chases with the effects generator.