Fade times

Hi guys,

Could someone teach me how to use the fade times? I see a fade-in and a fade-out time, but do not really know how to use them correctly...

What I would like to achieve is that each step uses both fade-in and fade-out time like this:

step 1 Fade-in 3s fade out 6s
step 2 Fade-in 2s fade out 2s

When ik press the go button to go from step 1 to step 2, I would like the channels that are not used (or lower in dmx value) to fade out in 6 secconds.

But the channels in step 2 need to fade-in in 2 secconds. Is this possible, or must I use these times otherwise?

Thanks in advance!

Piet

bonjour,

tu mets les temps d'apparition sur le premier pas (time in) et le temps de disparition (time out) sur le second.

step 1 Time in 3s Time out ...s
step 2 Time in 2s Time out 6s
step 3 Time ...s Time out 2s

hope help you
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Hi, thnx for your reply. Can you write your reply in English? I don't understand Frensh.

Do I need to leave some times blanc or something?

Thanks in advance!

@Piet,

When ik press the go button to go from step 1 to step 2, I would like the channels that are not used (or lower in dmx value) to fade out in 6 secconds.
But the channels in step 2 need to fade-in in 2 secconds.

so you nee to set the times on step2 with TimeIn=2, TimeOut=6
you can use shortcuts to achieve this on simply hit 2 and double click on the TimeIn parameters, hit 6 and double click on the TimeOut parameter

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Ok, so if I understand you correctly, the time-out of the step is applied on the previous step?\

example:

Step 1 Ti=2 To=0 Channel1=100 Channel2=0
Step 2 Ti=2 To=6 Channel1=0 Channel2=100

When step 1 is active and I press the Go button, Channel 1 goes from 100-0 in 6s amd channel 2 goes from 0-100 in 2 secconds?

Or am I wrong?

Thanks allot!

you're right!

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Great! That worked.

Thanks allot!

@Piet,
sooner or later, you'll want to have a look to Time Group (noted TGroup in DL) that allow individual timing for each channel.


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Ok, so with time group you can apply a fade time to each channel? I looked at the menu, but how do you make a timegroup?

2 ways.

-with shortcut:
if X2 is the active register (the green one), you select channel(s) that you want to be controled by a TGroup (for ex ch 1 thru 10),
you type the desired time (1 for 1 second) and you hit the timegroup shortcut ('z' by default)

-with the editor:
you click on the star in the column TGroup for the step you want to set some TGroup.
In the editor, you select the channel you want to be controlled with different times than ones of the step.
you must read vertically like that
Channel
Time
Delay

if you want to set Times, you can use Time shortcut or drag the 0.0 time value
if you want to set Delays, you can use Delay shortcut or drag the 0.0 delay value.

setting a time to 0 for a channel will remove it from TGroup.

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Yes that worked! Really great feature to be able to set times independant.

But how can I remove channels from the tgroup, or remove the entire tgroup from a step?

Great work!

But how can I remove channels from the tgroup, or remove the entire tgroup from a step?

I told you..
setting a time to 0 for a channel will remove it from TGroup.

to remove them all, just use the ALL shortcut to select them all and set time to 0.

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Ok, I didn't understand that 0 means not active (i thought it had to go back to a * in the step. but this is not the case)

Woow, :light is a really great programm! If you want you can keep it simple, but also has allot of good extra features!!

Correction, It does go back to a * when you set all channels to 0!

and upcoming version will be great.
would you mind trying the next beta when she will be public?

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Would love to test a new beta version! Can you tell me what will be different in the new version?