Move on dark to triggered playback

[CestM0i64]

So I’ve just run my first show using the flx s24 and all went well 🎉🎉🎉

I have a niggle I couldn’t find my way round. As you will be able to see from the attached show file (let me know if you need my custom fixture files), I used playbacks to set scenes/chases and then triggered them in the master playback stack as a way of recalling them.

This worked pretty well when it came to FOH chases as the moving head start position was irrelevant. When it comes to static scenes (not at a desk right now but the playback ‘Alice house’ comes to mind which is triggered around cue 3) the lights don’t move on dark to the playback start position which means they start to light and pan up from home. I could work around it by setting the position ahead of the trigger but that seems to defy the point of triggering playbacks and being able to quickly insert them in to a show.

Is there a way for me to allow the master playback to see inside the trigger to find the position parameters ahead of time or is there a better way of triggering ‘scenes’ that I’ve not found?

 

Thanks in advance

 

p.s. working in a school I’m loving the ability to use phantom zeros with the student version of capture to visualise this show. Only wish I had the budget to have a full version so I could use my fixtures.

Alice in Wonderland3.zos

[Edward Z88]

Hi @CestM0i64

On 3/5/2022 at 7:59 AM, CestM0i64 said:

So I’ve just run my first show using the flx s24 and all went well 🎉🎉🎉

That’s great, really pleased to hear it. 

On 3/5/2022 at 7:59 AM, CestM0i64 said:

Is there a way for me to allow the master playback to see inside the trigger to find the position parameters ahead of time or is there a better way of triggering ‘scenes’ that I’ve not found?

Move On Dark won’t be able to look ahead into playbacks that are set to be triggered. 

If fixtures need to be prepped ready for when they are used in triggered playbacks, I would recommend recording a cue “0.5” in each of your triggered playbacks. This cue could prepare your fixtures ready for when they are used, and the first cue of the playback could then follow on afterwards automatically.

Hope this helps,

Edward

[CestM0i64]

Sounds perfect, I’ll give it a go.