User guide

Working with Effects

What is an Effect?

An effect provides a way of automatically controlling Lamp Attributes

and/or positions in a pre-defined or customised pattern. Various templates

are provided (e.g. Circles, Wave, Intensity fade, Colour or Beam

sequences…) which you can set-up and modify to suit your particular

requirements via the Effects Entity Screen.

Ventura allows up to 20 different Effects to be defined and stored via the

effects keypad. These can be applied to Lamps in much the same way as

Colour and Beam attributes, although Effects are not specific to Lamp

Type.

You can, if required, combine two or more effects, provided that each

Effect controls a different Lamp Attribute. For example, you can combine

Circles, Colour sequence and a shutter effect, but you can not combine

Circles with Figure Eight since these both affect Lamp positioning.

Creating an Effect

 Firstly, select one or more Lamps (in controlled Mode) with which

to set-up and test the Effect. Then apply some basic Attributes and

Intensities so that the Lamp beams are 'visible'.

 Call-up the Effects Entity Screen on the main LCD (e.g. by

pressing the Effect button in the main Keypad Control Area. See

page 87).

Choose an unused Effect number and press the Next button.

By default you'll get into the first position-effect menu. This menu contains

the spread and the timing of the effect. There are also 3 soft buttons

available. If you don't want to create a position effect, you can use these

soft buttons to choose a Colour, a Beam or an Intensity effect.

 Press the Enter button to go through the menu tab fields and

select the required Effect Template.

 The corresponding button in the effects keypad will now be dimly

lit. Press this button to apply the effect to the selected Lamp(s).

Unlike Colour, Beam and Position keypads, the effect buttons have a

toggle action (press on – press off); thus more than one effect can be

applied at the time.