Fade question

[beyond the blue]

As a relative beginner I have a fade question. I want 10 fixtures to fade in intensity, 8 of them to fade to zero intensity over a 15 second period and the remaining 2 to fade to 25% over the same period and remain at 25%. How can I program this to be done with one cue in a stack using an FLX S48 console?

[kgallen]

Hi,

Yep. easy:

You will need two cues, one for each of your requirements - let's say you number them cue 2 and cue 2.5.

The cue before (cue 1 in my example) will need to set those 10 fixtures to whatever intensity you want to start from.

Cue 2 will be recorded for those 8 fixtures to be 0% with Fade Down of 15s, cue 2.5 will be for the 2 fixtures to fade to 25% again over Fade Down of 15s.

Then on cue 2.5 you go into Cue Settings (button at the end of the line in the Cue list window) and set that cue to "Auto With". This means that cue 2.5 will be triggered at the same time as cue 2.

I would recommend being in SmartTag on and Tracking to record this requirement. When you record cue 2 make sure you only change (hence tag) the 8 fixtures to go to 0. When you record cue 2.5 make sure you only change (hence tag) the 2 fixtures to go to 25%, otherwise each cue will affect more lights than you intend and your requirement won't work properly.

See https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/cues-playbacks/cue-settings/cue-triggers

[beyond the blue]

1 hour ago, kgallen said:

Hi,

Yep. easy:

You will need two cues, one for each of your requirements - let's say you number them cue 2 and cue 2.5.

The cue before (cue 1 in my example) will need to set those 10 fixtures to whatever intensity you want to start from.

Cue 2 will be recorded for those 8 fixtures to be 0% with Fade Down of 15s, cue 2.5 will be for the 2 fixtures to fade to 25% again over Fade Down of 15s.

Then on cue 2.5 you go into Cue Settings (button at the end of the line in the Cue list window) and set that cue to "Auto With". This means that cue 2.5 will be triggered at the same time as cue 2.

I would recommend being in SmartTag on and Tracking to record this requirement. When you record cue 2 make sure you only change (hence tag) the 8 fixtures to go to 0. When you record cue 2.5 make sure you only change (hence tag) the 2 fixtures to go to 25%, otherwise each cue will affect more lights than you intend and your requirement won't work properly.

See https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/cues-playbacks/cue-settings/cue-triggers

Thank you very much. A little bit more in-depth than I was hoping for, but I will have a go. Cheers. 

[Edward Z88]

2 hours ago, beyond the blue said:

I want 10 fixtures to fade in intensity, 8 of them to fade to zero intensity over a 15 second period and the remaining 2 to fade to 25% over the same period and remain at 25%. How can I program this to be done with one cue in a stack using an FLX S48 console?

Let's say these fixtures are on in cue 1, and you want them to fade down over 15 seconds in cue 2. In cue 2, program the first 8 fixtures @ 0%, and the remaining 2 @ 25%. You can then set the Fade Down time of cue 2 to 15 seconds, so that the first 8 fixtures fade to 0% and the remaining 2 fade to 25% over 15 seconds.

Please see the link below for more information...

https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/cues-playbacks/cue-times

Apologies if I have misunderstood your question. Please let me know if you have any questions.

[kgallen]

Yea Edward is right, since both of your fades are 15 seconds then you don't need the Auto cue in my explanation.

If you wanted different fade times then you would need the Auto method in my post (say you wanted 15 secs to 0% and 20 secs to 25%).

Sorry for over-complicating it!