Hello,
Can somebody please explain me what "submasters" are in the DMX world ?
I have totally no clue what it are.
What are they used for ?
Thanks a lot !
Bruno
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Re: Submasters
I still dont know and Im an admin here.....
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Re: Submasters
I finally figured it out, or I should say, this is how I use it:
Clear the cue and close it. Create a single scene and check add to cue upon save. For example, just using different colors for instance. Create a single scene with all the lights blue, save & add to cue. Create one with all the lights red, save & add to cue. Create scene with moving heads blue and all pars green, save and add to cue. The different color options can go on and on, but you get the point. Make sure that only the channels dealing with colors are set to snap or fade. All other channels should be off. You can put 20 different color scenes in one cue. Save the cue and name it colors. Open the Submaster, click open cue and drag the "Colors" cue into the submaster. Now as long as you have the lamps on and shutters open, you can double click on any one of those color scenes you created and that's what should show up. So no matter what movement your MH's or scanners are doing, you have all those color options to pick from without creating a new sequence to reflect the different colors for those movements. It's great for running the lights on the fly. The combinations are endless. Well depending how many lights you have!
It's not just for colors. You can create different single scenes for movements, gobos, gobo rotations, some strobing & some not, etc. for your MH's and/or scanners. Just remember to keep all the movements together in one cue (name it movements), keep all the different gobo combinations together in one cue, keep the all the different strobing effects in one cue and so on. Save each cue and then add it to the submaster.
Tip: Before creating each new scene, click "New" on the create sequence window. This will set all channels to off. This will save you from going double check every light to make sure that only the channel you wanted on will be on (snap or fade) for that particular single scene.
When you add up all the different combinations you can create, you can literally have over several hundred combinations at your finger tips with just a few double clicks of the mouse.
The submaster is my favorite.
I hope this wasn't clear as mud for you guys.
Clear the cue and close it. Create a single scene and check add to cue upon save. For example, just using different colors for instance. Create a single scene with all the lights blue, save & add to cue. Create one with all the lights red, save & add to cue. Create scene with moving heads blue and all pars green, save and add to cue. The different color options can go on and on, but you get the point. Make sure that only the channels dealing with colors are set to snap or fade. All other channels should be off. You can put 20 different color scenes in one cue. Save the cue and name it colors. Open the Submaster, click open cue and drag the "Colors" cue into the submaster. Now as long as you have the lamps on and shutters open, you can double click on any one of those color scenes you created and that's what should show up. So no matter what movement your MH's or scanners are doing, you have all those color options to pick from without creating a new sequence to reflect the different colors for those movements. It's great for running the lights on the fly. The combinations are endless. Well depending how many lights you have!
It's not just for colors. You can create different single scenes for movements, gobos, gobo rotations, some strobing & some not, etc. for your MH's and/or scanners. Just remember to keep all the movements together in one cue (name it movements), keep all the different gobo combinations together in one cue, keep the all the different strobing effects in one cue and so on. Save each cue and then add it to the submaster.
Tip: Before creating each new scene, click "New" on the create sequence window. This will set all channels to off. This will save you from going double check every light to make sure that only the channel you wanted on will be on (snap or fade) for that particular single scene.
When you add up all the different combinations you can create, you can literally have over several hundred combinations at your finger tips with just a few double clicks of the mouse.
The submaster is my favorite.
I hope this wasn't clear as mud for you guys.