If you only have four Mac250+ then you probably could do that but with tens or even hundreds of fixtures at your finger tips, using groups is quicker and more convenient. Each moving light control has it’s own method but they usually boil down to pushing a button/touchscreen or typing a number into a keypad. Moving Light Groupsīefore you can adjust moving lights on your control desk, you need to select them. E.g Group 1 = Back Truss Washes, Group 2 = FOH MAC2000 lights.
There is sometimes a few meanings to “Groups” in moving light control but to clarify, here is the definition for the purposes of this article.Ī Group is a shortcut to selecting a number of fixtures at once prior to controlling them, changing colour/position etc. Even a straight forward, cue-cue theatre show would benefit from a slightly more structured approach. Pretty simple.īecause moving lights have many more parameters or “attributes” to command (pan, tilt, colour etc), it soon becomes apparent to a beginner operator that just making the stage look good and hitting “record” before moving to the next “state” is not enough. If you were lucky enough to have a “memory” console, the cues were recorded as they looked on stage and then played back when needed. When you first get your hands on some moving lights and a controller, you may have already cut your teeth operating the school/church lighting desk, setting levels for different dimmer channels and using them for cues/scenes or “states”. Using Groups to control your “heads” is the next step in console programming like the professionals. Article 2 – Intelligent Lighting Control, looked at the first steps of controlling moving lights, fixture personalities and patching. The third part of the Lighting Desk Basics series, On Stage Lighting looks at the elements of moving light control.
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