Q Light Controller+

So I'm using the software as more architectural lighting as opposed to in a club. One thing I do is have a set program with a long Fade In time of 15 minutes. But what happens is because both the fader for the brightness and the faders for the RGB colors all start at ZERO, it takes a long time for any light to show. My whole system is pretty automated, but am hoping for a way to start this 15 minute time frame with the brightness all the was UP, so as the color faders go up, the light appears sooner.

Any suggestion?

Sure, in theater that's what I generally do with LED lights with maser dimmer channel: put the dimmer channel to full, and adjust brightness via color channels only, If a fade to black is needed, it can be easier to only use the master dimmer and leave the colors as are, but i rarely ever use both at the same time.


Post your workspace (and custom fixture definitions if any), so we can understand how you compose your scenes and cuelist, there's so many ways to achieve the same result and we have no clue how you arrived where you are.

In architectural light projects (gardens, castles, nice mansions, ...) I always start with a background of say 20-30%. On top of that, I play with my lights. If I would like the background 'killed', I use a submaster through a loopback channel. Only this one has to be LTP, the rest uses HTP logic. Long diming curves are possible to build from the background up to the desired result.

So I'm also realizing that my "Light Groups" all have the brightness fader included... so I'm also thinking of creating Light Groups that don't have the brightness included... and then just a simple master fader for brightness that stays full on all the time. As far as automating this, I could easily add a button on the Virtual Console for brightness... and just click it to turn it all the way up, and also click whatever program I'm running as well.

THANKS for your suggestions.... I appreciate your help....