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I think I saw your post about this on a Facebook page. It should be “Park FeatureGroup 2” if I’m not mistaken.

You can press “Assign”, select your group, and then select any executor. This will, however, only act as a group master, so it will not output light, but instead limit your overall intensity for the selected group. If you want to control intensity (dimmer), select the group, select your dimmer preset or set a dimmer value in the feature group labeled “Dim”, press store, and then select an executor to store to.

Those represent stage directions. For example, DS is down stage, and SR is stage right. These acronyms help me know which fixture selection is stored to that group, especially if the group only contains a portion of a certain fixture type, based on their location.

@@mwlighting many thanks! And last question, using groups. I still don't understand very well when it's better to use group preset on layout instead the grid selection

Think of it like this. Layout views can give you a visual representation of your stage, fixtures and subfixtures, all depending on how you choose to set them up. Selection grids are meant to represent how a phaser will move across your selection.

I’ll put this in the cue 👍🏼

​@@mwlighting I will give you the light name in the fixture: 7 Matrix Cupeix Panels | 13 Channel I am trying to make a sinus effect where all the lights are lit up but from the 4th in the middle to out it fades out like a dim sinus on 0 thru 360 degrees. Then it returns back to the 4th one doing the same thing. And Im also trying to make custom presets like turn one light on and the rest are off. Like in the introduction video of the Elation Cuepix Panel. But I cant figure it out. Thanks!

You can’t necessarily add a smoke or haze effect, but in the 3D settings, you can mess with the spot and beam settings to change the intensity of the light cast from the emulated fixtures.

Hit the Single Step button on the left side of the encoder area, then use the left and right buttons next to the phaser steps to go through and find what you need to edit

@@traxata that was non-obvious until you said it.🤦‍♂

You can use single step to see the values for a specific step without them bouncing to the next step, but you don’t have to. As long as you have the step you want to change selected (i.e. 1/2, 2/2, 3/17, etc.), you can change the values or presets referenced and even see it update in the active phaser.

You will need a piece of MA3 hardware to unlock parameters (output). I highly recommend the onPC 2port node. It unlocks 4,096 parameters (which is the cap for an onPC setup). It’s the cheapest option and you can buy Artnet/sACN nodes for additional output ports for much less than if you bought an 8port node.

@@mwlighting I see, however I have a pretty big budget, if need be would it be more efficient to just outright buy the console? I also want to be able to use 10 universes, I have a lot of fixtures for what Im doing

Yeah you’ll definitely be looking at a console if you want any parameter count greater than 8 universes worth. You’ll be looking at around $24,000USD for the least expensive console MA offers. If you’re US based, you’ll want to go through ACTlighting. I’m not 100% sure who the primary EU vendor is, but I know Thomann sells them as well.

Thanks for the help, Will do fosho thanks for the vids too super helpful

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@@mwlighting You gotta mention that in the video, but thanks. And why didnt you show us how you did the effect at the beginning? These tutorials are too short and background music is not needed

I did say what they are at (0:33). I didn’t show how to make the effect in this video because that is not what this video is about. Feel free to check out my videos on phasers, though! Also, I intentionally make these videos short so that the viewer can receive all necessary information as quickly and efficiently as possible.

@@mwlightingAlright, I didnt notice. I’m a beginner so I need more in depth tutorials

No problem, I appreciate the questions! I’ve got plenty more content, including longer in-depth videos, coming up, so hopefully I can help answer many more of your questions.

Thank you for commenting! I’m not sure I completely understand your question, can you give me an example?

@@mwlighting Thank you for reply, sure, I will try, for example I recorded different cue for each fixture on different executor, but now I want it on one bottom or executor, I want to call all of them in the same time

Thank you for clarifying, I think I know what you’re asking now. So, you can’t use one exec to call a group of other execs, BUT you can write a command in an exec that can control other execs. That command might look like “Go+ page 1.(starting exec) thru (ending exec)” So if exec button 1.101 is my “All On” and execs 1.301 thru 1.305 are my individual execs, I would write this in the command line in exec 1.101: “Go+ Page 1.301 thru 305”

Great question! You can make your effects, but leave the matricks off and don’t select a phase. Store the effect preset. Next, store a blank preset and turn it into a recipe preset. In the recipe line, leave the selection column blank, select the preset you made in the values column, and then select any matricks preset you want in the matricks column. If you don’t have matricks presets, you can set the Phase From and Phase To in the columns further in the recipe for the X, Y and Z axis, as well as add blocks, groups and wings on those axis too. Now when you select a group and then the recipe preset, the effect and matricks information will universally work with any selection of fixtures. This is actually my next video, I’ll explain it well there!

Sure is!

I sure do! It is a great additional feature when creating presets for fixtures with many capabilities

@@mwlighting Can I get to know how can I get that I’m not able to figure it out

@@mwlighting Maybe some steps you can tell me of how to bring them will help me to implement it

Got it bro btw your tutorials are damn good.

Dynamic presets are amazing.

It’ll always be here! You have my word :)

I’m glad you like them! Many more to come!

You can use it for parties, but you need MA hardware to unlock output.

If you’ve got $10k to spend

Thank you for sharing this useful tip!

First thing I would check is that you chose the correct channel mode when the fixture was patched.

Thanks! Once I get back home from the tour I’m on, more videos will be coming out!

We will both remember this moment 😁

Thank you for your comment! I do think that the GMA2 effects engine is very user friendly, however, the versatility and ability to make very specific and intricate effects with phasers far outweighs the learning curve. I know that I struggled for a while trying to understand why they made it “more difficult”, until I realized that phasers make my effects look better, operate better, and customize better! I hope you continue to learn about phasers. I think you will thoroughly enjoy them once you see how much more you can do with them!

You can go to your phaser editor window and click on the symbol that looks like a minus sign. That's the delete selected steps button (keep in mind that deletes all your selected steps so just make sure you don't have all your steps selected just the one you're trying to delete!)

you can always just fix it up in the patch window its not that big of a deal unless the movers are above the crowd

Thank you for sharing. It is highly dependent on the orientation of fixtures, as well as what their internal settings for positive/negative pan/tilt are. I’ve seen both, even when the tails are all faced the same way. It’s annoying, but relevant.

Glad you like them!

Great question! What is the fixture? Have you opened the fixture profile for make sure the subfixture dimmer channels aren’t defaulted to 100%?

@@mwlighting Thanks for the reply, I tried it with 3 seperate fixtures that we own in our lighting house and all of them were the same deal on the fixture sheet. I found out how to default all the subfixtures to 0 but i can't control them without defaulting the parent fixture to 100. Which works, but i just noticed everything on your fixture sheet is at 0 and you can just grab and control what you want. ADJ Vizi Wash Z19 in 29 channel mode, which gives you ring control Elation Seven Batten 72 in 78 channel mode, just a huge LED bar with i think 10 or 12 zones and also the JDC1 in 68 Spix mode

@@danielbrimley8662 I am having the same issue with Elation Cuepix Pannels, Chavuet Pix-M and Chauvet Batten Quad 12's. So Annoying.

Great question! It’s yes and no. If all of your tilt presets are the same and are stored as universal, any new fixtures brought into a recipe will adapt. However, pan presets most commonly have fixture beams spread in different variances. Those you will need to update. A quick way I’ve done that is with magic presets. Check out my video on that, but use position attributes instead of color attributes.

You know it!

I’m sorry, I don’t completely understand your question, but I can try to help if you give me a little bit more detail!

The adventures of multi-instance demystification!

@@mwlighting yeah, you name it! Was quite intimidating to touch these fixtures at first and even more exhausting not knowing how to select them the right way

Thank you for your suggestion! I will definitely take this into consideration.

Thanks! Plenty more to come!