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Synchronisation of an effect.
You can synchronise any effect with the intensity or the shutter. Using this
feature you don't have to worry about delay and wait times that you are
using with the effect. With the intensity you can choose which part of the
effect has to be bright or has to be faded. With the shutter you can choose
which part of the effect you want to see or not want to see. Make your
choice with the synchronise parameter ( -none-, intensity, shutter).
 Intensity synchronisation
All the parameters of the synchronisation menu work the same as
explained above. The spread sets the spread of the effect wave
around the actual intensity level. With Wave parameter you choose
the wave form you want to apply on the intensity. With the offset
parameter you set the start position of the wave. You use this to
choose which part has to be bright or not. With the frequency you
can set how many times the intensity fades during one cycle.
 Shutter synchronisation
spread
offset
With the shutter synchronisation, the
parameters work slightly different. The wave
has no influence because a shutter can
only
be closed or open. With the offset, we set
when the shutter has to close, and with the
spread we set the open time (%). The
easiest way to synchronise an effect with the
shutter is to set the delay and wait times of the effect at 0. Set the
synchronisation offset at 0 and the spread at 50. Now you only see
all lamps changing together for half a cycle, the rest of the cycle is
blanked by the shutter. Change the offset of the shutter to "set"
when the shutter has to open. Then change the spread to "set"
how long the shutter has to stay open. At this moment you have
set the part of the effect you want to see. You can now change the
delay and wait times, as you want; the shutter will be automatically
synchronised with the effect changes.
Controlling palette stepping effects.
For Beam and Colour effect you have the possibility to step through the
palette buttons. With these effects we don't use any wave form, so the
second menu (shape menu) is not used. You set the start button with the
Palette and the number of buttons with the Length. So if you have
programmed your palette correctly, you'll have the right result for any type
of lamp.
E.g. Colour: Palette = 2
Length = 3
This colour effect start at button 2 and steps to button 5 (3 steps).
Also here you can apply delay and wait times and synchronisation.
Controlling a shutter effect.
Also with this effect the wave form doesn't matter. With the Open you just
set the open time (%).
With the offset you can set when it has to open to synchronise with an
effect (if needed, it’s easier to use the synchronise feature of the other
effect).
Some lamps have their strobe channel combined in the intensity channel
(E.g. ClayPaky). To create strobe effects for these lamps you have to set
up an intensity effect.
E.g. ClayPaky GoldenScan
 Intensity effect
o Intensity at 25% or 64 (dmx) (for ClayPacky)
o X-Wave: Step1
o X-Spread: 50
o Speed: 200
HELPFUL HINT
Play with delay and wait times to create nice strobe effects