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Palettes
Page 142 Frog 2 Operating Manual – Issue 4.3
Recording Palettes
Programming a palette is simple and similar to recording a cue. Set up the fixture outputs
as required, ensuring that the correct fixture parameters are tagged, and then enter the
following command:
RECORD COLOUR N ENTER (N = palette number).
To record the fixture data as a beamshape, position or effects palette, simply replace the
COLOUR part of the command with BEAM, POSITION or EFFECTS respectively.
Hints on Recording Palettes
If you wish to record attributes, other than the default one for the type of palette being
recorded, then select the required attributes on the Record Options Window on the touch
screen before pressing the ENTER key.
When creating Position palettes, use the HIGHLIGHT key to grab a fixture in open white.
Set the position as required, then turn the HIGHLIGHT off before recording the palette.
This way you won’t have to untag the intensity of each fixture.
Naming Palettes
Palettes can be named, either as a separate operation or as part of the recording process,
by entering one of the following commands:
COLOUR N SET
SET COLOUR N ENTER
RECORD COLOUR N SET
Type in the name using the external keyboard and then press ENTER to complete.
Outputting Palettes
Select a fixture or group of fixtures and then enter one of the following commands:
COLOUR N ENTER Snaps the outputs to the programmed palette values.
COLOUR N TIME ENTER Fades the outputs in time defined by the Time UDF.
COLOUR N TIME X ENTER Fades the outputs in X seconds.
If any of the selected fixtures are not actually programmed in the applied palette, but there
are one or more fixtures of the same type that are programmed, the fixture will use the
values programmed for the first fixture of the same type.
If the fixture data in the Program Window is then recorded into a cue, UDF or UDK, the
desk will record the palette reference number rather than the actual parameter values.