Colour fade

[beyond the blue]

I am operating someone else's program. One of the queues is a dim sequence over 12 minutes, one of the lights in the sequence needs to change colour as it dims , how do I program it to do this without ruining the rest of the lights in the sequence? FLX S48. Novice.

[Edward Z88]

Hi @beyond the blue

1 hour ago, beyond the blue said:

One of the queues is a dim sequence over 12 minutes, one of the lights in the sequence needs to change colour as it dims , how do I program it to do this without ruining the rest of the lights in the sequence?

To do this, tap on the cue that has the 12 minute fade time in the Cues window, so that it goes yellow. Then hold Z/SHIFT and press the GO button, to snap into the cue. You should then see the fixtures in their recorded values that they get to when the fade time has completed. You can then select the light you need, and change its colour. Then tap UPDATE, and tap the playback's GO button.

Now, go into the previous cue, and press the GO button to run the cue. If the colour fade time needs tweaking, tap on the value in the cue's Colour column, and then tap the first encoder wheel's button, to open a number pad. You can then type in a colour fade time for the cue, and click OK.

I hope this helps.

[beyond the blue]

1 hour ago, Edward Z88 said:

Hi @beyond the blue

To do this, tap on the cue that has the 12 minute fade time in the Cues window, so that it goes yellow. Then hold Z/SHIFT and press the GO button, to snap into the cue. You should then see the fixtures in their recorded values that they get to when the fade time has completed. You can then select the light you need, and change its colour. Then tap UPDATE, and tap the playback's GO button.

Now, go into the previous cue, and press the GO button to run the cue. If the colour fade time needs tweaking, tap on the value in the cue's Colour column, and then tap the first encoder wheel's button, to open a number pad. You can then type in a colour fade time for the cue, and click OK.

I hope this helps.

Thank you for the reply. Just to be 100% sure I phrased the question correctly, at the moment the light in the previous cue is (white) and I want it to transition from the (white) to (blue) over the 12 minute fade time. At the moment the light is snapping to (blue) and then dimming over the 12 minute fade time. Is your instruction still the same?

[Edward Z88]

1 hour ago, beyond the blue said:

At the moment the light is snapping to (blue) and then dimming over the 12 minute fade time.

If the fixture is already in blue in the cue with the 12 minute fade, you’ll just just need to set the colour fade time of that cue to 12 minutes too. To set the colour time, tap the cue’s colour column, and then tap the first encoder wheel’s button. You can then type 12.00.00 into the numpad to achieve that. 

[beyond the blue]

That worked great, thanks.

[Edward Z88]

3 hours ago, beyond the blue said:

That worked great, thanks.

No problem at all- pleased to hear it.