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Hi, I wonder how you work on your console with moving lights. I have Tiger and Marin Mac 500 and Mac 600. I would like to know what you have store as Palette and what you store as cue/chease. Standard Pallete's are color, gobo, position. So do you store only dimmer and move as chease or cue and after start playback you select fixtures and change colors, gobo etc ? Maybe you have store random shutter, random iris or prism as Palette ? What should I store as Pallete to have Pearl more flexible in use with moving lights. Can you tell me how look's your show when it's programed? Do you split it between memory sites?

And second question - anyone can tell me what speed, size, fine, coarse should have Circle 1 or Circle Even in shape generator to make smooth move of Mac 500. When I start Circle 1 the move is to fast or to slow and it isn't smooth...

Intensity/shapes on playbacks. Everything else on palette. Keep palettes specific to single attribute/fixture type and use Quick Palette. Enable palette paging so you have 120 available.

The only exception to this might be shutter where a 'momentary' random or constant strobe is useful. To do this set the playback to mode 2 and ensure the shutter attribute is set to fade in patch/utilities.

Keep pages structured with only small changes. In particular across roller pages 1-3.

To fade in shapes you need to set size to fade (shape gen/playback parameters) and either set playback to mode 2 (fade by fader) or mode 1 with a specific fade time. Using mode 2 allows you to manually control including fade out. Mode 1 will not fade out.

http://www.onstagelighting.co.uk/traini ... -operator/ maybe someone else can describe his working method thanks niclights