Moving Lights Disappear in Run Mode...

[CallumAllan]

Information: Jester ML v3.3 connected with 24/48

4x Clay Paky - Alpha Spot 300

 

 

 

At our school, when we program in moving lights we find that they often disappear in Run Mode. You press play and the only thing that works in the static lights. The dimmer disappears along with other things like gobo, prism, colour, position etc. (they often take it in turns)

 

It does it in chases and a step.

 

Can anyone please tell me whats wrong? They have done this for like a year now but I have got to a point where they fail me.

 

I am quite new to the zero 88 boards aswell.

 

Thanks,

Callum Allan

Dingwall Academy

[Jon Hole]

Hi Callum,

 

Please can you save the show and upload it to the forum, and let us know exactly which memories you are having the problem with, and describe how we can recreate it?

 

Thanks

[CallumAllan]

Thanks for the reply Jon,

 

I have a Show File from a pantomime last week. since this it has been updated from 2.4 to 3.3 and restored. but maybe you can find something I'm doing wrong?

SHOW01.JML

[CallumAllan]

Can someone please help me? This is a very annoying problem that I can't fix.

[CallumAllan]

I have also found that the scene takes elements from the previous played scene. e.g one scene was a gobo was with colours and the next was a plain strobe, but the gobos and colours strobed instead... any ideas?

[iank99]

I'm not an ML expert - I've only trained folk on the base Jester but it sounds like a 'tagging' issue whereby values you set for gobo's and colour end up tracking in to subsequent cues.

 

Essentially, you need to tell the desk explicitly what you want onstage for the cue where you want a plain strobe, without 'tagging' you'd see a lot of unnecessary movement on fixtures as values changed between states that didn't really need to.

 

Have a read of the Jester ML manual around page 36 it might cause you to have a 'lightbulb moment'.

[CallumAllan]

I'm not an ML expert - I've only trained folk on the base Jester but it sounds like a 'tagging' issue whereby values you set for gobo's and colour end up tracking in to subsequent cues.

 

Essentially, you need to tell the desk explicitly what you want onstage for the cue where you want a plain strobe, without 'tagging' you'd see a lot of unnecessary movement on fixtures as values changed between states that didn't really need to.

 

Have a read of the Jester ML manual around page 36 it might cause you to have a 'lightbulb moment'.

 

Thanks alot! you are the most helpful person I know, although I am still slightly confused I get what its saying. I will have a go on sunday and let you know if this helped.

 

Thanks again,

Callum

[iank99]

We try

[CallumAllan]

We try

Thanks again, problem solved and it really was one of those "lightbulb" moments haha