QuickShow Question. X,Y Size very small but don't turn power down

[norty303]

I wonder if this is a safety feature, or whether its actually the functionality that tries to keep equal brightness to effects, regardless of the nature of the effect. So its more about preserving a consistent looking show.
I seem to recall LivePro had an option to bypass this sort of thing for beam zones, and maybe thats defaulted for the beam target stuff.

Have you ddropped Pangolin an email about it yet?

[Pangolin]

Hi guys,

Just a few quick points. We have some technologies in QS to try to keep people out of trouble in the obvious places. If you use Master Size control and move it to zero, as you get close to zero it will fade out the beam. This is to stop people from accidentally catching things on fire. (I have burns on my wall where power was still high but size was zero...) But in QS, these technologies are only in the obvious places. It's still possible to reduce things to zero size -- for example using an effect. But that's not so obvious so hopefully beginners will stay out of trouble...

The Beam system will only be visible if you are in Advanced mode. So you need to go to the Settings menu, and then QuickSetup, and tell QS that you're an advanced user. For single beams, that's the best thing to use because it also has laser power enhancements to make sure you get full power out of single beams (and more holes burned on your wall...)

Finally, if you want to create a particular frame and use that for mirror targeting or just emphasized beams, use the CTRL key along with the point tool. If you don't use CTRL then our drawing program assumes that it is your intention to place just a "point" (like a star) and in fact you may place many points (many stars) so it better conserve points. When you do CTRL+CLICK with the point tool, it places a "beam", not a point. So that's much brighter.

Thanks for calling this thread to my attention Keith!

Bill

[norty303]

Ok, so what if we want to project a frame at full power onto a mirror ball?
I'm thinking in terms of those specific frames like the different circles in LivePro Playtime (7th row of patterns on the right half of a lot of pages) which were designed to be used with zones 15, 16, 17, etc as mirorball patterns.
Can QS be told to project full power frames for a specific zone, regardless of size?
Does this also apply to Beyond, and is it defeatable in Beyond?

[Pangolin]

Hi Norty,

One thing I did not mention (but was at least mentioned above) is the concept of making a dedicated zone. What Glenn Turner does with LivePRO (and will work equally as well with all of our software) is make a single zone for each of his mirrorballs. Then QS with "think" you are displaying a frame "full size" and will not turn down the brightness.

See, this "brightness turning down" is done in a pretty unsophisticated way, and only in kind of main and obvious places like the Live Control section. All other manipulations will not mess with brightness...

Bill

[norty303]

Ah, ok, it seems I missed the very core piece of information in the first post, about turning down X and Y to fit the mirror ball.
In my mind I assumed this was in the zone geometric settings (exactly as you would do in LivePro and as I've done every time I've set up mirrorballs!) and it was this that I thought was causing the decrease in brightness!

Its been a long week!

[dnar]

If its just one cue you need to project then apply resizing within the cue as an effect.

[Pangolin]

If its just one cue you need to project then apply resizing within the cue as an effect.

Correct. In QS it is only in the Live Control section where we have this "size->brightness" relation (both in "Master Live Control" and "Cue Live Control"). Effects that change size will not affect brightness.

Bill