Ramp and Fade

[g2ktcf]

Okay,

I have a question about the intensity level for ramps and fades. My lights shut off at 25%. Is there any way to replace the 0% with 25% as a default value for fades other than using the partial and having to enter the value each time?

Thanks,
Chris

[jmccoh]

Chris,

In the top toolbar click on Sequence then on Settings and you can input your min and max illumintation as well as the event period.

[g2ktcf]

The problem with that is that that all the cells in the sequence will go to 25%. None of the lights will be "on" but that does mean all every channel is actively working and drawing some power.

[RichF]

Using a min channel value is a good idea I used this after I found a flashing problem when dimming from 100 to 0 on my ren-c equipped 595. I found my lights were all off at 31 so I set my minimum dimming level to 30 created my sequence then did a replace all of the value 30 with 0 This removed the dimming below 31 and did not turn on a channel until it was needed in the sequence.

[piesrule58]

Using a min channel value is a good idea I used this after I found a flashing problem when dimming from 100 to 0 on my ren-c equipped 595. I found my lights were all off at 31 so I set my minimum dimming level to 30 created my sequence then did a replace all of the value 30 with 0 This removed the dimming below 31 and did not turn on a channel until it was needed in the sequence.

How exactly do you do this? I can set min to 30 but I cannot get it back to zero.

Cheers, Terry

[deplanche]

When you go from 0 to 30 for a min, Vixen will change everything below a setting of 30 to 30.

However, if you do from 30 to 0, it can't tell if you wanted 30 to be 0, 5, 10, 20, 25, etc, so it leaves it at 30. You'd have to do a find of "30" and replace with "0" to restore the original way you had it.

[piesrule58]

When you go from 0 to 30 for a min, Vixen will change everything below a setting of 30 to 30.

However, if you do from 30 to 0, it can't tell if you wanted 30 to be 0, 5, 10, 20, 25, etc, so it leaves it at 30. You'd have to do a find of "30" and replace with "0" to restore the original way you had it.

I have tried to do that with no luck. How exactly do you do it?

Cheers, Terry

[deplanche]

My guess is that you are using percentages (0-100) rather than intensity (0-255). My understanding is that the minimum and maximums are set by intensity level and not percentages. If you are setting the minimum intensity to 30, that will display a percentage of 12% when you point to a cell. However, Vixen doesn't always do well with rounding, so you can't do a find and replace of 12% because that is only an approximation, and the actual value is 11.8%. So when you find a replace, you can't do it by percentage. (I believe KC has a fix for this is the Beta 2.1 release)

The easy way to get around this for now, is to view cells by intensity. Then do the find and replace as desired. It should work fine that way. If not, let me know what value you are seeing in the Cell Intensity display for you "off" cells. Be sure to include a % sign if it shows.

[toodle_pipsky]

How exactly do you do this? I can set min to 30 but I cannot get it back to zero.

Cheers, Terry

I think I know what your talking about Terry. When I was troubleshooting my RenC/Grinch issues during set up I changed the default maximum and minimum settings. Max 230 (90%) and min 77 (30%). Yay! It converted everything and it seemed to fix my flickering problem. But the issue came when I started editing and I would highlight a section, select on or ramp or something, but then decide it didn't look good and I wanted to erase it. I'd select OFF and of course it's not off but 30%. Any section I'd select and hit OFF it would change to 30%. The only way to get it to zero was to go to SET INTENSITY and set it to 0 each time. This wouldn't have bugged me so much if once everything went to 30% the lights would come on faintly. So I just left minimum at 0 and maximum stayed at 230 - changing the minimum caused problems, changing the maximum only fixed it.

[deplanche]

It is confusing that when you up the minimum, it looks like everything is partially on all the time on Vixen, though you shouldn't see that on most of the lights themselves. What is does is makes for a better fade or ramp so that you aren't loosing part of the time to things you can't see anyway. Personally, I'd use partial ramps and fades between the limits, rather than upping the minimum.