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This mimic is what you’re used to seeing in the SELECT task; it shows the Intensity as a
number and graphically as ring, it shows what attribute families have recently changes
with the four ghost icons, it shows the color of the Light, where the Light is pointed and
any shutter cuts that may be set. If you have multiple Lights selected, the mimic shows
the state of the first Light in the selection set. There are also new tools that appear to the
left and right of the mimic that are discussed below.
Double Tap to set Intensity
From SELECT, double tap on the Light to set its intensity to full. If the Light is already at
full, double tap will take it out. You can select a range of lights then double tap to set all
their levels. This also works if you double tap the Light mimic between the attribute
bubbles in CONTROL WHEELS for each of Intensity, Color, Position and Shape. This is
handy because you can, for example, stay in CONTROL POSITION using the NEXT and
PREV buttons to bounce through your lights, turning them on and positioning them one
at a time without having to go back to CONTROL INTENSITY.
Flip
Moving head lights can reach any point on stage with two (and sometimes more)
combinations of Pan and Tilt. If your lights don’t move while they’re one, the automatic
Move In Black feature of Cognito will set up your lights for you and you many never find
the need for this new feature. But, sometimes when you write cues and the lights do
move from Point A to Point B, again, there will be two ways of getting there. In almost all
cases, there is a right way and a wrong way (a shorter way and a “Why did you go
across the wall?” way). When that happens, be in the second cue, select the offending
Light, go to CONTROL POSITION WHEELS and press FLIP, then SHIFT REC to update
the cue.
There are artistic reasons for using flip too. Say you selected a range of Lights and
focused them to cover the back wall of the stage and you start the color wheels rolling.
They will all roll from (say) left to right. If you select the first half of the lights and FLIP
them, the color roll will sweep to the insides. This looks much cooler.
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