Using palettes, Applying palettes – ETC Element v2.1.0 User Manual

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Using Moving Lights and Palettes

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Using Palettes

Intensity palettes can be selected from the control keypad or direct selects, and Focus, Color, and
Beam palettes can be selected from the ML Control display or direct selects. When palettes are
recalled, all data is manual and will display in red. Palettes recalled from the direct selects
automatically terminates the command line.

Applying Palettes

Generally, palettes are applied only to selected channels, therefore you must select channels
before applying a palette. If a selected channel has no stored value in the applied palette, it remains
in its current state.

Palette data will appear as manual data for the specified channels. That data will appear as
abbreviations of the palette type (IP3 = Intensity Palette 3, FP8 = Focus Palette 8, and so on), or as
the palette label if defined/enabled in the displays settings.

See “Setup” on page 43.

To see the

numeric values behind any palette (or other referenced value), press and hold the [Data] key. To
see the palette number behind the label, press [Shift] + [Label].

When palettes are applied, channels with stored data in the palette will recall that data according to
manual time settings. Palettes may also be applied using the sneak feature (with default sneak
time) or a time specified using the [Time] key.

For Example:

Select channels 1 through 8 at intensity level 45 and sneak into color palette 4 over 40

seconds.

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[1] [Thru] [8] [At] [4] [5] [Frame] [Frame] [4] [Sneak] [40] [Enter]

You will notice channels 1 through 8 intensity and color parameters sneaking to the

required values over a period of 40 seconds.

You may also use groups to apply palettes. For example:

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[Group] [1] [1] {Beam Palette} [5] [Enter]

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[Group] [5] {Color Palette} {6} [Enter]

When applying palettes, only selected channels will be affected. The data recalled from a palette is
referenced. To break the reference you may use {Make Absolute}.

N o t e :

Pressing [Frame] [Frame] will post Color Palette to the command line.