Synchronizing Preset Playback - High End Systems Studio Command Series User Manual

CHAPTER 3
The Menu System

Synchronizing Preset Playback

After creating one or more scenes for your fixtures, you can synchronize the preset playback for
all Studio Command™, Studio Command
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Studio Color 575, Studio Spot™ 575, EC-1™, ES-1™, Technobeam
FX fixtures in the link.
Note: Synchronizing preset playback is applicable for fixtures operating in
stand-alone mode only. Do not include a DMX console in the link
while synchronizing preset scene playback.
Synchronizing playback allows you to set all applicable fixtures to a master clock so that all
fixtures have a definite, synchronized starting point when playing back their sequences (or
loops). It is the master fixture (the fixture assigned DMX start channel 1) which determines the
sequence length for all the other fixtures in the link (slave fixtures), regardless of the number of
programmed scenes or the sequence length of the individual slave fixtures.
When the master fixture reaches the end of its last scene, all fixtures will restart at scene 1
(regardless of whether the slave fixtures have finished playing their scenes) and all the clocks
will be reset to zero.
For example, if a slave fixture has a shorter sequence length, it will continuously repeat its
sequence until the master fixture resets all the clocks. If a slave fixture has a longer sequence
length, it will restart at scene 1 before it completes its entire sequence.
00:00:00 00:15:00
Master Scene 1
00:00:00 00:10:00
Slave 1 Scene 1
00:00:00 00:10:00 00:20:00
Slave2 Scene 1 Scene 2
To enable synchronized playback:
1. Link the fixtures you want to synchronize (see Standalone Fixture Linking on page 16).
Make sure you terminate both the first and the last fixtures in the link and that there are no
DMX consoles on the link.
2. Assign one fixture as the master fixture by assigning it a unique DMX start channel 1 or
fixture number 1 (see Assigning a DMX Start Channel on page 18). Make sure no other
fixture on the link is assigned DMX start channel 1 or fixture number 1.
3. Set preset playback on for all fixtures on the link (see Setting Preset Playback (PLAY) on
page 23).
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00:35:00 00:50:00 01:00:00
Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4
00:55:00
Scene 2
00:40:00
Scene 3
Example of synchronized playback.
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, Studio Spot™ 250, Studio Color
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01:20:00 01:30:00
Scene 5 Scene 6 Scene 7
01:30:00 01:40:00
Scene 3 Scene 1
Scene 4
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250,
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01:40:00 01:55:00
Scene 8 restarts
Scene 2 scene not finished
restarts
01:55:00
Scene 5 not played
restarts