ETC Emphasis Lighting Control System, User Manual

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Control Interfaces 193
Time Code Program
You can create and run shows that respond to programming based on a standardized time
code protocol. Emphasis responds to both the Society of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers (SMPTE) time code (Expression/Insight only) and to the Musical Instrument
Digital Interface (MIDI) time code.
Emphasis also generates an internal time code in both MIDI and SMPTE protocols. This
internal clock can be used to play back events. You can also have both the external and
internal clocks enabled at the same time. This will ensure that your program will run even
if external signal is lost.
A Time Code Program consist of a series of events that play back at specified times with
reference to the time code clock. A time code program also has a modifiable loop time that
ranges from 5 seconds to 24 hours. There can be as many as 3,000 time code events, with
each event having any combination of cues loaded in faders (one cue for each of the two
faders), a submaster bump button and a macro.
Event times are expressed in hours, minutes and seconds, with each second broken down
into frames. For example, 01:25:30:17 is one hour, twenty-five minutes, thirty seconds and
seventeen frames. Three frame rates are available: 24 fps, 25fps and 30fps (default). Up
to 32 events may be executed in a single frame.
N o t e :
If more than 32 events are assigned to the same frame, only the first 32 are executed in
that frame, Remaining events are executed in the following frame(s) as needed. In
manual mode, however, only one event is executed when step is pressed, regardless of
how many are assigned.
Change the time code frame rate:
Step 1: Press [Setup] [2] [Enter] to view the Options Settings menu.
Step 2: Press [5] [Enter] to select Time Code Frames per Second.
Step 3: Press:
•
[1] to set the frame rate to 30 fps.
• [2] to set the frame rate to 25 fps.
• [3] to set the frame rate to 24 fps.
N o t e :
The SMPTE and MIDI settings in the Facepanel Configuration menu are reserved for
future use. While you may make changes there, they will have no effect on your system.
Time Code Events Display
You can create a time code program by entering information directly in the Time Code
Events display, or by learning the program as you play it back live. When you learn a
program, each valid event you perform as the clock is running is added to the program with
a time stamp. Once you get all of the required events in the list, you can go back and adjust
timing as necessary to clean up your program using the direct entry method.