Q Light Controller+

Hello fellow QLC+ users. I have not been using QLC+ for nearly as long as some of you. Along my way up the learning curve I have gotten stuck, confused, and frustrated many times. However, due to the expertise, experience, and most of all a willingness to help, you all have always gotten me through the rough times and brought me to a place where I understood whatever I did not understand previously. For all those times I sincerely thank every one of you who has helped me and even those of you who would have if you could have figured out what I was talking about or known the answer to my questions.

Of particular significance is the fact that I have struggled for a long time trying to make good use of my moving head lights. I don't know why but I just couldn't get my head around the concepts needed to initially program the lights and then to understand how to adjust them so that they pointed at the dance floor in different situations at various events. I was really struggling because at one event I would be 15 feet from the dance floor and at the next I would be 50 feet from the dance floor.

Out of desperation I put out a thread on this forum asking if someone wanted to make some money programming a show for me. Massimo responded to me but he was and I'm sure still is very busy. However, to my absolute shock and excitement, he wrote a 17 page document all about how to handle moving head light programming. I will readily admit that I had to read it quite a few times before I had an understanding of what it all meant.

Finally I understand the major concepts needed to program the lights and adjust them at each event. At the risk of repeating myself I want to wholeheartedly thank everyone who has helped me make the most of QLC+ for my shows and for my entertainment company. And many thanks in advance to those who will help me in the future because I feel confident I will need your help many more times as I try to branch out and do more and more with QLC+.


OK, now on to a technical question: So I set up all the pan and tilt sliders for my moving heads to an initial position that I wanted. I called it dance floor and it is simply all of my moving heads pointing straight out across the dance floor. Then I did a DMX dump to a button. In order to only get what I wanted in that button I had to manually select 16 pan and tilt channels to go into the DMX dump. So the question is: Is there a shortcut to getting those values updated in the button when they have to be changed. I have a slider for PAN that adjusts all of one type of fixture and a slider for TILT in the same way. I only have 2 types of moving head fixtures so 4 sliders that quickly adjust all 8 of my lights. But how to then save that quickly back into a scene or button is not as obvious for me. I don't want to have to manually select 16 or more different channels every time I want to do a DMX dump.

I thought of a second question. If I set up an FX preset for some moving head lights and then create a Virtual Console button for it, I want to be able to reset that (i.e. turn it off) without having to click the button. In other words I have a RESET button that I click that sets most if not all channels to 0. But how do I program something that does that plus turns off the FX button so the moving heads don't keep moving even though the dimmers are off?

Thoughts, suggestions????

Thanks,

Rob

EBDS wrote:Hello fellow QLC+ users. I have not been using QLC+ for nearly as long as some of you. Along my way up the learning curve I have gotten stuck, confused, and frustrated many times. However, due to the expertise, experience, and most of all a willingness to help, you all have always gotten me through the rough times and brought me to a place where I understood whatever I did not understand previously. For all those times I sincerely thank every one of you who has helped me and even those of you who would have if you could have figured out what I was talking about or known the answer to my questions.

Thoughts, suggestions????

Thanks,

Rob

Hi Rob,
There is a lot of examples and workspaces published in the forums. I wrote on my blog my experience with QLC+ and my first show with it. viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7336&hilit=first+show

Thanks but your quote is out of context. There was a lot in between those two statements you're quoting and my request for thoughts or suggestions was directly related to the questions I asked in the post, not a general request for help. I already have an extensive show built. I am just trying to learn to clean up some loose ends in my thinking. Thanks anyway.