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Someone asked about DMX.
I responded to his post, read what I wrote and thought, Hey, this information might help a lot of people.
So...
Here it is.
DMX is not easy to get your head around but once you do, it's simple. Tedious but simple.
Lets say you have a scanner light that has a moving mirror and 3 colors R.G.B. Lets say that light is a 7ch DMX light. The 7 channels would be...
Ch. 1) X movement of mirror (side to side)
Ch. 2) Y movement of mirror (Up and down)
Ch.3) Red
Ch. 4) Green
Ch. 5) Blue
Ch.6) Shutter
Ch. 7) Dimmer
The 1st slider on your DMX controller will control where you want your light to point at. (Side to side)
The 2nd slider will control what height you want the light to be at. (Up down)
The 3rd slider will turn on Red and control how bright you want Red to be.
The 4th slider will turn on Green and control how bright you want Green to be.
The 5th slider will turn on Blue and control how bright you want Blue to be.
The 6th slider will control the lens being open (to allow light to show) and strobe.
the 7th slider will control the overall dimmer of the light.
Each channel has a value from 1 - 255
Example... Ch. 4 (Green) 1-40 = dim green, 41-150 = brighter green, 151-255 = brightest green.
Example... Ch. 6 (Shutter) 1-25 = closed shutter. 25-150 = completely open shutter, 151-200 = slow strobe, 201-235 = faster strobe, 236-255 = fastest strobe.
THESE ARE NOT ACTUAL NUMBERS BUT A REPRESENTATION!
To set up your DMX light to do what you want it to do, you have to set up scenes. Your scenes consist of many steps.
Example...
Step 1. Open shutter
Step 2. Choose your color
Step 3. point light where you want it to be
Step 4. Choose how bright you want the color to be
THIS IS ONE SCENE.
You will do this many times to create your scenes.
Hope this helps
Stickie maybe???
Feel free to add on.
I responded to his post, read what I wrote and thought, Hey, this information might help a lot of people.
So...
Here it is.
DMX is not easy to get your head around but once you do, it's simple. Tedious but simple.
Lets say you have a scanner light that has a moving mirror and 3 colors R.G.B. Lets say that light is a 7ch DMX light. The 7 channels would be...
Ch. 1) X movement of mirror (side to side)
Ch. 2) Y movement of mirror (Up and down)
Ch.3) Red
Ch. 4) Green
Ch. 5) Blue
Ch.6) Shutter
Ch. 7) Dimmer
The 1st slider on your DMX controller will control where you want your light to point at. (Side to side)
The 2nd slider will control what height you want the light to be at. (Up down)
The 3rd slider will turn on Red and control how bright you want Red to be.
The 4th slider will turn on Green and control how bright you want Green to be.
The 5th slider will turn on Blue and control how bright you want Blue to be.
The 6th slider will control the lens being open (to allow light to show) and strobe.
the 7th slider will control the overall dimmer of the light.
Each channel has a value from 1 - 255
Example... Ch. 4 (Green) 1-40 = dim green, 41-150 = brighter green, 151-255 = brightest green.
Example... Ch. 6 (Shutter) 1-25 = closed shutter. 25-150 = completely open shutter, 151-200 = slow strobe, 201-235 = faster strobe, 236-255 = fastest strobe.
THESE ARE NOT ACTUAL NUMBERS BUT A REPRESENTATION!
To set up your DMX light to do what you want it to do, you have to set up scenes. Your scenes consist of many steps.
Example...
Step 1. Open shutter
Step 2. Choose your color
Step 3. point light where you want it to be
Step 4. Choose how bright you want the color to be
THIS IS ONE SCENE.
You will do this many times to create your scenes.
Hope this helps
Stickie maybe???
Feel free to add on.
Posted Fri 01 Mar 13 @ 1:51 pm