ETC Emphasis Lighting Control System, User Manual

Page: 95 / 292

4
Live Editing 85
Park
Parked channels and dimmers are set to a level that they will maintain regardless of manual
control, cue or submaster playback. Parked levels are not recorded into cues, groups or
submasters and are independent of most other instructions, with the following exception:
• [Blackout] affects parked dependent channels. Independent channels are not affected
by [Blackout] .
Channels and dimmers that are unparked will return to whatever control input has the
highest level, or they will return to zero output.
N o t e :
Since you can park channels and dimmers separately, it is possible to park a channel and
its patched dimmer at different levels. In this case, the parked dimmer level will take
precedence. When the dimmer is unparked, the channel’s parked level will take
precedence.
Park Dimmers
When you park dimmers, they will stay at their parked level and ignore any instructions they
get from the channel they are patched to. So, you can park a dimmer to a specific level (to
maintain worklight, or for troubleshooting purposes, for example) and still be setting
channel levels and recording cues.
Park dimmers at direct levels:
Step 1: In the Stage display, press <S7 - More Softkeys> [S6 - Park] . In the Park
display, you do not need to press a softkey before selecting dimmers.
Step 2: Select dimmers using the procedure described in Select Channels, Dimmers and
Fixtures, page 72 .
Step 3: If selected dimmers are not already at the levels you require, press [At] [ x ] ,
where [ x ] is the level you desire. If they are at the levels you require, skip this
step.
Step 4: Press [Enter] to park the dimmers. In the Park display, dimmers will display the
level they are parked to.