Automated Followspot Control; Static Look Control - Martin LIGHTING DIRECTOR User Manual

Figure 30 - Light control screen

AUTOMATED FOLLOWSPOT CONTROL

Setting automated follow spot functionality is quite easy. Simply choose the lighting
fixture that you would like to become a followspot and click on its "Light Control" box.
This will bring up the lighting control screen. Click on the "make followspot" button to
enable that light to follow your performer in the area that you defined for the current
layer. You may enter an "offset" in centimeters so that if, for example, the tracker is
going to be worn on the performer's shoe the MLD can automatically centre the beam
on his or her head (entering a value of, say, 150 cm in the Z field). During followspot
control the lighting board retains control of all DMX parameters for the light except
pan and tilt, unless you specifically program the MLD to control one or several other
DMX channels as well.

STATIC LOOK CONTROL

Static control is when you want the MLD to trigger a very specific set of predefined
DMX values to set your lights for a determined "look". You can think of this as a preset
"cue" that gets triggered whenever the performer walks into the area of the stage that
you specified with the current layer. To start, by default, all DMX parameters are set to
be controlled by the lighting console (or by nothing if the MLD is in the stand-alone
configuration). For static control you must set the values of each DMX channel that you
want the MLD to control for each light. In the lighting assignment screen you will find
an area dedicated to static look control. Each lighting parameter has a clickable box
with a display of its current value. To let the MLD set a lighting parameter for the light
that you are assigning, click on its controllers to change the value for the parameter.
You may use the arrows to select a value or enter it directly in a numerical field. As
you change the value with the arrows your light changes in real time, while if you are
entering the number directly the light changes when you press enter. By clicking on the
name of the parameter the box becomes selected (i.e. highlighted with red): this means
the MLD will automatically set the parameter of that light to the specified value when
the performer enters the area of the stage defined in the current layer. If you click again
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