Newbie checking my knowledge - about cue, sequence, etc
Posted: 04 May 2010, 03:09
I haven't figured Freestyler out yet, but am working on it. I have searched and found similar questions to mine, but I don't quite understand the answers in those other threads.
I plan on using it in a very simple manner - theater, kid's plays and just changing from scene, to blackout, scene to blackout, etc.
I haven't quite got a complete handle on the difference between cues, cuelists, sequences, submasters and all.
What I want to happen is just click a button somewhere for a blackout. Then click the button next to it (or maybe just use the right arrow?) and go to scene 1. Then, click the button next to it (or maybe just use the right arrow?) and go the the blackout, etc, etc, etc.
From what I understand, I need to make 1-step cues with how I want the lights setup (all PARs) and then save the cue (optionally selecting the add to cues/buttons). Then add another cue and set up the lights as needed, then save with the name for scene 2. Should I use Static or Transparent sequences?
If the above is correct, can I re-use the blackout cue over and over? Will it blackout whatever lights are on at the time for the various scenes? Or do I need to make a new blackout after each cue, using the previous scene setup as the base of the blackout? I ask this because I seem to get different results each time I try it. Sometimes the fades work, sometimes they don't. Sometimes the lights that should have turned off don't. I'm not sure what the correct way to do this is. I'm talking about dragging the 'blackout' scene down to the cue list after making a new cue - scene, whatever. I'd call it a scene since that's the way I think about the way I'm using Freestyler.
There seems to be many places to change things since I've changed the intensity of the lights, but sometimes it doesn't do anything and I'm not sure why.
I need to know the proper way to set up the different scenes and make it simple to just click the buttons to change between them when the kids are doing the play. One of the kids will be running the lights.
I thinks the tutorials I've seen on Youtube are much more complicated than I need, using fancy color changing and moving lights, when all I have are PARs, that just have intensity - nothing else. I may need a couple steps in a scene, maybe adding lights at a certain point in the same scene, or some sort of simple change, but that's about as fancy as I need, other than the blackouts between scenes.
I plan on using it in a very simple manner - theater, kid's plays and just changing from scene, to blackout, scene to blackout, etc.
I haven't quite got a complete handle on the difference between cues, cuelists, sequences, submasters and all.
What I want to happen is just click a button somewhere for a blackout. Then click the button next to it (or maybe just use the right arrow?) and go to scene 1. Then, click the button next to it (or maybe just use the right arrow?) and go the the blackout, etc, etc, etc.
From what I understand, I need to make 1-step cues with how I want the lights setup (all PARs) and then save the cue (optionally selecting the add to cues/buttons). Then add another cue and set up the lights as needed, then save with the name for scene 2. Should I use Static or Transparent sequences?
If the above is correct, can I re-use the blackout cue over and over? Will it blackout whatever lights are on at the time for the various scenes? Or do I need to make a new blackout after each cue, using the previous scene setup as the base of the blackout? I ask this because I seem to get different results each time I try it. Sometimes the fades work, sometimes they don't. Sometimes the lights that should have turned off don't. I'm not sure what the correct way to do this is. I'm talking about dragging the 'blackout' scene down to the cue list after making a new cue - scene, whatever. I'd call it a scene since that's the way I think about the way I'm using Freestyler.
There seems to be many places to change things since I've changed the intensity of the lights, but sometimes it doesn't do anything and I'm not sure why.
I need to know the proper way to set up the different scenes and make it simple to just click the buttons to change between them when the kids are doing the play. One of the kids will be running the lights.
I thinks the tutorials I've seen on Youtube are much more complicated than I need, using fancy color changing and moving lights, when all I have are PARs, that just have intensity - nothing else. I may need a couple steps in a scene, maybe adding lights at a certain point in the same scene, or some sort of simple change, but that's about as fancy as I need, other than the blackouts between scenes.
