Color
We looked at color control in chapter 11. I hope you haven't forgotten about it.
Beam
The Beam Preset Type covers a lot of different things that affects the look of the beam. It can be attributes like Iris,
Prisms, Shutters, Frost and build in Effects.
Let's have a look at what our fixtures can do. The leftmost tab have Shutter and Iris. The Shutter fader controls the
strobe speed. The buttons next the fader allows you to first select if the shutter should be open or closed. The three
other buttons allows us to select the different strobe modes the Alpha Profiles and GLP's can do. There's the
standard strobe mode, a Pulse and a Random.
The second fader doesn't have any functionality with our fixtures.
The third fader is the Iris in the Alpha Profiles. Again the fader controls the iris opening and there are some buttons
next to the fader that works a lot like the buttons for the Shutter. First two are Open and Closed. The next three
gives you different modes. Strobe gives you a strobe effect on the Iris. The two others are different pulse patterns.
Notice that there's an extra tab called "Prisma 1". Here you can choose to have the 3 facet prism in or out. You put
it in by selecting it and take it out by pressing Off . The prism we got don't have rotation so the second fader
doesn't do anything.
A weird thing about this fixture type is that the variable Frost is only accessible in the Raw attributes. So that's where
you'll find it.
Focus
In Focus there's usually both Zoom and Focus control. The two controls for these are very similar. The faders control
the beam size or the focus point in the fixture. Next to them are three buttons. They each represent the top, middle
and bottom of the fader. Some fixtures have a more complex focus system. These extra attributes can only be
accessed in the Raw values.
Control
The control allows us short cuts to lamp features and different resetting of the fixtures. These shortcuts doesn't work
if your fixtures don't have these control channels, but have put these functions inside a different channel. Like the
Martin Rush MH3 - here you'll find the fixture controls inside the "Curve" channel in the Dimmer Preset Type.
Shapers
Shapers don't have any special helping view. Here you only have the Raw value control.
Ok, enough boring information, let's use use it for something. In the next chapter we are going to make some more
groups and create some more presets.
2.16. Getting Started Guide - Making more groups and presets
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