Movement speed Question

[Pinspot]

Hi All,

 

Is it possible to control the Movement speed differently at the same time for pan and tilt motors using a fatfrog console? Im trying to scan a moving mirror light with left to right panning at speed 255 and I want the tilt motor to move at a slower speed around 165 to have the mirror move down and then up relative to the fast moving scan left to right.

(Im using the ellipse movement effect with the Y at 0 and the X at 50 and the ellipse speed at 40 to get the light to scan left to right at the Movement speed of 255)

 

Thank you

[Paul]

One way to do this (assuming you're running version 10 software, which allows you to separate movements from positions when recording) is:

 

1. Program a 2-step chase to get the slow up-down movement.

 

2. Use the movement effects (as you currently are doing) to get the fast left-right movement.

 

I think if you recorded this into a single memory, you might have issues with the movement effect re-syncing on each chase step and getting in the way of the effect you're trying to create.

 

The best thing would probably be to use a memory (maybe transferred to a submaster) for the slow up-down chase, and then use a position palette for the fast left-right movement.

 

Be careful about what's tagged when you record this. Also beware the bug in version 10:

 

Frog Reference 5531 - Outputting a Memory/Submaster/SX stops the movement effect even if it is not programmed.

 

There is a beta version out currently which fixes this bug, but I think all our beta testers must be asleep or something, since we haven't had much feedback on it yet. Maybe we should sack the lot of them and get some new ones...

 

Sorry for the late reply on this one by the way. Must not have had an answer at the time, however with version 10 now out, this sort of effect starts to get easier to create.

[Pinspot]

Thanks for the reply. I don’t have version 10.0 on my fatfrog yet, but I will download it and try out this effect.