I've just taken on two Skytronic (don't laugh!!) moving heads (6ch: colour gobo, rotation direction/speed, shape gobo, strobe freq, pan, tilt) and I'm slightly...
Have a look around the effect system to get some creative movements going. The system provides many toys so that you dont have to create things like circles...
They were actually Skytec moving heads I had... After creating a fixture profile for the head in the dimmer patch, actually creating a new effect in the...
Here is the official statement on the new registration system. =========================================== Thank you for supporting the development of this...
Also, any chance of a response to the fact my software is unable to be registered online and I have received no email from the website software rego page...
... We have actually had little or no feedback on this. Although a few people have had problems upgrading their registration codes the new system seems to be...
Sorry for the inconvenience. We replied to your email on the 19 of this month with the correct registration details. I have resent this email to both the...
Hi. New to this group, new to LF and fairly new to DMX as well so any help appreciated. Im using a DMX pro with LF and at this stage a chauvet Stagewash RGB ...
Does anyone know of a way to activate cues with MS Power Point? we are about to upgrade to LF Pro to get the use of the extra addons and were wondering if we...
You should see the timecode digits in the "external triggers" window change as a media file is played in WinAmp. WinAmp must be playing on the same computer...
Hi. Thanks for the reply. I can see the master timecode digit in external triggers change as the file is played, and add new events on the fly so to speak....
You only need to setup shortcuts if you want to trigger something other than a cue. You need to set the trigger for all of the cue to "Timecode" and then you...
there's no filter for this kind of crap? Gregory Bride - designbygreg Lighting Design, Theatrical Rigging, CAD 519-276-7596 cel 519-272-0209 hm 519-569-2187...
For some reason my channel display only has 50 channels. When I try to patch fixtures beyond channel 50 in the patching screen, I get an error message that...
Nevermind I figured out that we only have 50 channels with Basic. Confusing channels with Dimmers and I really don't understand how to control multiple dimmers...
Sorry for the confusion. There is obviously an bug with the basic version with that index out of range message you received. To patch more than 1 dimmer to a...
Bragging time... Last night LightFactory controlled 179 intelligent fixtures for the finale section of the opening ceremony at African Cup. The show was at the...
I understand patching more than one dimmer to a channel, my confusion came from thinking that channels and dimmers were one in the same. As an example, when I...
Depending on the fixtures manufacturers the gobo images may be available online or in the manual. To import then into LF they need to be in an image format....
Hi I am running lf with a usb dmx for output and a dmx pro for input from my desk. Every time I bring up the shortcuts screen, my input from the dmx pro stops...
This is very odd behavior. What are the specs of the computer you are using? More importantly are you running windows 98? Martin ... from my ... dmx pro ... ...
Spec is AMD 3000+ with 512Meg ram - XP Home with all latest updates. Also when running cues, they will suddenly stop working and 'unable to draw to canvas' or...
All of this is symptoms of the same problem. The "Cannot draw to canvas" error suggests that you are running out of system resources. I have seen this happen...
Trying to setup a line in trigger version 1.1.1.27 Have supplied audio source to line in. The settings I set up in External Triggers are: Enable Audio line in...
1. Make sure you have all of the cues in your cue list setup to trigger via audio. 2. The trigger level and min time is low. Try higher setting using the white...
Martin, That was it. Timing wrong. Do you know if there is a way to switch into AUTO from LINE IN when running the cue? I tried mixing AUTO & LINE-IN in the...
We have never tried to mix "audio" and "auto" triggers. It should treat each cue separately and work as expected however remember that the "auto" cue will...