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  • Page 1 A N E W E R A O F C I N E M A T I C L I G H T I N G U S E R M A N U A L V 2 . 0...

  • Page 3: Storage And Safety

    • Please comply with all reasonable and local safety fans and ventilation grilles are free from obstruction at requirements all times. Rotolight use the latest 'super quiet' fans for • Please ensure that all warnings and safety instructions exceptional performance are observed at all times.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS SFX Menu Storage and Safety Flash Interface Titan X1 Quick Start Guide DMX Interface Titan X2 Quick Start Guide Using ROTO-wDMX Introduction Remote Device Management How to Update Your Titan Titan DMX Protocols Mounting Your Titan How to Connect to Luminair...

  • Page 6: Titan X1 Quick Start Guide

    Titan X1 - Quick Start Guide 1. Yoke Mounting Points (M8) 11. K-Mount (shown with a Swan Neck Mount) 2. DMX Menu 12. Power Switch ON | OFF | ON 3. SFX Menu 13. DC Cable 4. HOME Menu 14. Built-in Foot 5.

  • Page 7: Titan X2 Quick Start Guide

    Titan X2 - Quick Start Guide 1. Yoke Mounting Points (M8) 11. K-Mount (shown with a Swan Neck Mount) 2. DMX Menu 12. Power Switch ON | OFF | ON 3. SFX Menu 13. DC Cable 4. HOME Menu 14. Built-in Foot 5.

  • Page 8: Introduction

    INTRODUCTION Thank you for purchasing Rotolight Titan™, the most powerful range of LED lighting fixtures ever made. We at Rotolight are committed to bringing the finest and most inspirational lighting tools to image makers. Rotolight Titan™ fixtures includes industry-first technologies such as SmartSoft™ electronically adjustable diffusion, High Speed Sync Flash (HSS), and other revolutionary technologies developed by Rotolight such as CineSFX™.
  • Page 9 SFX (Cinematic Special Effects, ‘CineSFX™’) contains over 20 fully customisable special lighting effects, developed by Rotolight and visual effects veteran, Stefan Lange. You can edit a lighting gel or create a custom colour in one of the Home menus, and combine it with an edited effect in SFX to create your own customised lighting FX.

  • Page 10: How To Update Your Titan

    HOW TO UPDATE TITAN™ VIA USB PEN DRIVE FAT32 STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 Choose a USB stick Format the USB Stick to FAT32 Copy and paste the update file to (preferably San Disk or reputable format and have no other files on the USB Stick brand), (not compatible with USB the stick...

  • Page 11: Mounting Your Titan

    The Titan X1 can either be mounted onto a 16mm Baby Spigot, or , by removing the tensioner , The 16mm TVMP socket becomes a 28mm Junior stud. Titan X2 is equipped with a 28mm Junior stud. Rotolight also sell a 28mm Junior socket to 16mm Baby stud adapter, available from our accessories page.

  • Page 12: Using Titan On Battery Power

    USING TITAN ON BATTERY POWER To use the Titan on battery power, use the Rotolight 2-way or 4-way adapters; we do not recommend third- party adapters. Please note that these adapters support 14.8V batteries, DO NOT use 24V batteries as it may cause the adapter and Titan to sustain damage.

  • Page 13: The Home Master Menu

    THE HOME MASTER MENU When you select the touch button labelled ‘HOME’, it will take you to the page where you can select one of five colour editing submenus below: 1. CCT - when this submenu is selected you can set the white balance. Using the left knob, you can change the brightness.

  • Page 14: What Is Smartsoft

    SmartSoft™ Electronically Variable Diffusion SmartSoft™ is a radically new technology developed by Rotolight. It allows the user to electronically adjust the diffusion, focus and spread on Titan™ lighting fixtures. It provides two stops of programmable diffusion, and can be operated from the local controls on the light or remotely via DMX or wireless DMX. If the user intends to operate the light for long periods at high temperatures then the performance of the SmartSoft™...

  • Page 15: Titan System Menu

    ‘SYS’ (TITAN™ SYSTEM MENU) Pressing the dedicated ‘SYS’ menu touchscreen button opens the system settings menu in Titan™. SETTINGS Submenu The first submenu item, SETTINGS is a scrollable list of settings. These include the following: 1. Thermal Management: there are three options available: STEALTH –...
  • Page 16 SACN, ArtNet etc. THIS 5V DC IS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS TO SOME USB DEVICES, SO PLEASE USE THIS FEATURE WITH CARE. 1. USB: UPDATE FIRMWARE system. Download the latest firmware from Rotolight/titan-updates. Rename the file to ‘update.bin’, then copy it to a 16GB (or 32GB) USB2 memory stick that is formatted in ‘FAT32’ mode.
  • Page 17 Please note that we recommend that you only use Rotolight power adapters or battery adapters. The incoming voltage must not exceed 24-25volts DC or damage may occur to Titan™...

  • Page 18: Sfx Menu

    This product is not suitable for use by children of any age and is designed for professional use only. Rotolight have a policy of continuous product improvement and so some of the CineSFX™ may operate in a slightly different way than is described here, or may be forthcoming on a future firmware update, check www.rotolight.com for details or ask your local dealer.
  • Page 19 The three control knobs are usually assigned to MENU, SPEED and BRIGHTNESS. There are some secondary functions assigned to the knobs which are accessible if you press and turn the knobs, these are assigned to specific parameters for each effect and are indicated by grey triangles behind the main parameter displays. Most of the effects will also have the trigger function , assigned to the Centre knob (click the centre knob to trigger start/stop the selected effect), or tap the TRIGGER on the touchscreen.
  • Page 20 ‘STROBE’ The Strobe effect produces a regular flashing light. Create a colour in the HOME menu then go to SFX/STROBE. . Click the centre knob to trigger (start/stop) the strobe effect, or touch the ‘TRIGGER’ activator onscreen (or use a wireless trigger or a connection to the trigger port). Rotate the centre knob to adjust the strobe speed (it will display X.X Hz, where = ‘X.X’...
  • Page 21 ‘POLICE’ This effect is an emulation of an emergency services light. Click the centre knob (or touch the TRIGGER touchscreen) to activate the Police effect. Rotate the centre knob to adjust the police beacon speed. (It will display XX, which will give you an indication of the effect speed). Press, hold and turn the left knob to select the colour (red, blue, red/blue, blue /red) Press, hold and turn the right knob to select Flash type (i.e.
  • Page 22 ‘CHASE’ (Moving or Throbbing Light Emulator) This effect allows Titan™ to wirelessly control a line of up to 12 Rotolight Titans to simulate passing streetlights. This effect requires some settings in the DMX menu as follows:- Master Titan™ should be set to DMX/IN-OUT (Input –...
  • Page 23 The controls for Chase are as follows: Rotate centre knob to control the Chase ‘SHAPE’ Rotate right knob to control Brightness Press, hold and turn the left knob to control the Chase ‘SPEED’ Press, hold and turn the centre knob to control the Chase ‘light FLOOR’ (i.e. the amount of residual light across all the lights in the Chase) Press, hold and turn the right knob to control the Chase ‘GAPs’...

  • Page 24: Flash Interface

    Rotolight HSS Providing more than 200% of the normal maximum continuous output (in MAX+ mode), Rotolight HSS flash also provides incredible colour accuracy (CRI 98, TLCI 99) with the ability to electronically tailor the diffusion, spread, brightness, duration and colour temperature to your needs.
  • Page 25 Rotate the left knob to set the desired modelling light level in order to preview focus, shadows and highlights on your subject (in %, 0-100%) and compose your photograph. NB: Titan™ is intentionally less bright whilst in modelling light mode than regular continuous light mode, in order to make the light more comfortable for the subject and prolong battery life.
  • Page 26 Fujifilm cameras, available from from www.rotolight.com and Rotolight retailers globally. Capable of controlling up to ten Rotolights, in four groups, the Rotolight HSS transmitter also provides wireless control of Titan brightness and colour temperature in both flash and continuous modes (Rotolight HSS transmitter only), and can trigger CineSFX™, X-FX (Exposure FX) and Designer Fade™.
  • Page 27 PC sync port to the 3.5mm mini jack on the Titan™ port plate. If your camera does not have a PC sync port, then you can purchase the optional ‘Rotolight Accessory Shoe to PC’ adapter and the PC flash sync cable, which converts your accessory shoe into a PC socket NB - PC sync is limited to your camera’s internal sync speed...
  • Page 28 Screen (if it does not you can press setup ‘Scan’ on the transmitter to force it to search for compatible devices). (Note : It may detect it as ‘Apollo’ or ‘Titan X1’ / Titan X2) We automatically set the units to default to channel 1, frequency 1 out of the box.
  • Page 29 ‘X-FX’ (Exposure Effects) Titan™ X2 includes an Exposure Effects (X-FX) feature set, delivering multi-flash intra-frame imaging for photography that allows users to capture multiple stroboscopic frames of movement within one exposure, or programmable delayed flash events. It is easy to use and can provide some really fun ways of creating unusual multi-exposure images to capture the spirit of movement in still photography.

  • Page 30: Dmx Interface

    DMX MODE - Rotate the right knob to select your desired DMX Master Mode. Choose from Titan 16 channel/Titan 8 Channel / Rotolight Legacy 2 Channel/ Rotolight Legacy 8 Channel / Arri compatible 24 channel mode / Gemini 10 channel mode DMX ADDRESS - select the base DMX channel address for this Titan™...
  • Page 31 9th September 2019. Rotolight Titan X2 measured using shipping production unit serial SKY000182 measured in February 2020 in a controlled environment, using a Sekonic C-800 light meter, Titan in Max Lux Mode. TLCI quoted at manufacturer average values. ARRI, SkyPanel, Kino Flo, Celeb, Rotolight, Titan, Litepanels, and Gemini are registered trademarks, and the exclusive prop-...
  • Page 32 Mode. This data can be in Bluetooth or wDMX /CRMX (2.4Ghz WiFi) format. NB: Please don't confuse the Skyport Frequencies 1-20 (ROTOLIGHT wDMX CHANNELS) and the DMX Base Address channel, they are two separate things. For SYNC-SFX to work, you will need to configure both to match the Master Titan™.

  • Page 33: Using Roto-Wdmx

    113, 129, 145, 161, 177, 193 and so on). If you would like to control legacy Rotolight fixtures like ANOVA PRO 2, AEOS or NEO from a Titan Master, then you need to set up the legacy Slaves as follows:-...

  • Page 34: Remote Device Management

    1809h). While we are finalising the rollout of the RDM functionality for Titan™ we would welcome any suggestions you have for key functions to be included. Please email your suggestions to rod@rotolight.com, with the subject ‘Titan RDM Wishlist’. Here is a table containing the Titan™ RDM features currently in development:-...
  • Page 35 DMX Data value on channel 2 of this mode, as follows:- Mode ‘CCT & Green–Magenta Point’ (0-9) Source Matching (40-49) Mode HSI (10-19) X,y Coordinate (50-59) RGBW (20-29) Effects (60-69) Gel Selection (30-39) Reserved (70-255) For a list of DMX values for Rotolight filters and effects, please refer to www.rotolight.com/Titan...

  • Page 40: How To Connect To Luminair

    Select ‘DMX fixture / Select a Profile’, scroll down the list of manufacturers to Rotolight then select TitanX2 (Note: it may be necessary to first download a fixture file for Rotolight before you see Rotolight in the list of manufacturers).
  • Page 41 Select the Bluetooth tab. You should see a list of all available BLE devices here. By default the Titan will appear as ‘Rotolight Titan X2’ (you can change the displayed name via the CRMX Toolbox app). In the STEP 15 screenshot below the Titan is named ‘DevTitan’.
  • Page 44 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATONS: POWER SUPPLY UNIT TITAN X1 TITAN X2 Power Supply Power Supply 110 to 240 V AC, 50/60 Hz 110 to 240 V AC, 50/60 Hz Input Range Input Range Power Supply Output 24 V DC 350 watt Power Supply Output...

  • Page 48: Titan Accessories

    Titan X2 with Pole Operated Yoke Titan X2 with Swan Neck SKU: RL-TITAN-X2-Y SKU: RL-TITAN-X2-P SKU: RL-TITAN-X2-S Titan X1 with Standard Yoke Titan X1 with Pole Operated Yoke Titan X1 with Swan Neck SKU: RL-TITAN-X1-Y SKU: RL-TITAN-X1-P SKU: RL-TITAN-X1-S Titan X2 Barn Doors...
  • Page 49 TIitan X2 SNAPGRID® For SNAPBAG® TIitan X2 SNAPGRID® TIitan X1 SNAPGRID® For SNAPBAG® RL-TITAN-X2-SGSB RL-TITAN-X2-SGT RL-TITAN-X1-SGSB Titan X2 Rental Kit Titan X1 Rental Kit TIitan X1 SNAPGRID® RL-TITAN-X1-SGT RL-TITAN-X2-RENTAL RL-TITAN-X1-RENTAL Spare PSU For Titan Titan X2 Reporter Kit Titan X1 Reporter Kit...
  • Page 50 Rotolight 155 Wh V-Mount Battery Rotolight 310 Wh V-Mount Battery 2-way V-Lock Battery Adaptor & 155 Wh V-Mount Battery Bundle RL-BATT-155 RL-BATT-310 RL-VL24-BUN Rotolight 310 Wh V-Mount Battery 4-way V-Lock Battery Adaptor & 155 Wh Rotolight 155 Wh V-Mount Battery...
  • Page 51 RABBIT-EARS ACCESSORIES SNAPBAG® Lantern 3' Rabbit-Ears Cover For SNAPBAG® Lantern 3' SNAPBAG® Lantern 5' Rabbit-Ears RL-TITAN-SBRL3 RL-TITAN-SBRL3-C4 RL-TITAN-SBRL5 Cover For SNAPBAG® Lantern 5' SNAPBAG® Octa 3' Rabbit-Ears SNAPBAG® Octa 5' Rabbit-Ears RL-TITAN-SBRL5-C4 RL-TITAN-SBRO3 RL-TITAN-SBRO5 SNAPBAG® Octa 7' Rabbit-Ears SNAPBAG® Medium Rabbit-Ears SNAPGRID®...
  • Page 52 ACCESSORIES 60-Degree Honeycomb Grid 30-Degree Honeycomb Grid 60-Degree Honeycomb Grid for Titan X2 for Titan X2 for Titan X1 RL-TITAN-X2-GRID-60 RL-TITAN-X2-GRID-30 RL-TITAN-X1-GRID-60 30-Degree Honeycomb Grid Rotolight 20-Inch Rotolight 20-Inch Chrome-Plated for Titan X1 Chrome-Plated C-Stand C-Stand and Adapter Bundle RL-TITAN-X1-GRID-30...

  • Page 53: Warranty Information

    PentaChromic ™, CineSFX™, Designer Fade™, True Aperture Dimming™, SmartSoft™, and Rotolight™ are registered trademarks held by Rotolight Ltd. All rights reserved © Rotolight Ltd 2019. A list of Rotolight’s IP rights can be found at www.rotolight.com. Elinchrom is a registered trademark of Elinchrom SA, all rights reserved. Images shown here are for illustrative purposes only.
  • Page 54 INDEX Look Up Table 15 AC adapter 16 Lumenradio 9, 30, 32, 35, 40, 43, 47 Luminair 40, 41 Accessories 49, 50, 51, 52 Map 31 Base Address 9, 30, 31, 32, 33 Master 15, 25 Brightness Mode 16 Max 15, 25 Built-in Foot 6, 7 Max lux 16, 31, 42, 45, 46 Mini Jack Flash Port 6, 7, 27...
  • Page 55 ” Adam Duckworth - Editor In Chief Pro Moviemaker  “ It’s incredibly exciting to have a light where you can shape and control the light without any modifiers. I use Rotolight now for virtually every setup ” Roy Wagner ASC Director of Photography: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Elementary, House...
  • Page 56 | sales@rotolight.com | +44 1753 422 750 DESIGNED & ENGINEERED AT PINEWOOD STUDIOS, UK © Rotolight Group Ltd 2020...

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