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I have a Pearl 2008 and am trying to create a tilt saw effect that closes the shutter on the downward stroke, so my eventual effect is a row of movers where the odds move up with open shutter, close shutter at end of stroke and return to home position whilst the evens are sweeping up with shutters open, repeat, repeat.....

Shapes only work on one attribute so they're out, I've been trying a chase but the problem is to get a slow smooth movement I have the chase set to full fade but then the shutter opens and closes halfway through the movement cycle, or using dimmer instead I get the intensity fading through the movement cycle, I want beam on, sweep up smoothly, beam off, sweep down, all this with no pauses....... any ideas?

Cheers

Solved.... another 10 mins playing and got it sorted, if anyone else finds this thread looking for an answer here's what I did....

program chase, a step for each of the open shutter, close shutter and movements separately, then unfold the chase and edit the times for the shutter steps to zero leaving the movement steps at 1 now I get exactly what I wanted.

Hope this helps someone.

For people using version 9, key frame shapes should be a good way to achieve this look. One layer of the shape can contain the tilt moment and a second with the shutter opening and closing, you can then adjust the positions on the timeline so that the shutter comes in and out at the desired points. Key frame shapes have the advantage that you can easily apply a spread across your fixtures and specify a direction e.g. from the middle outwards.