Tips & Tricks

Many jobs require lights to be active at the same time as an announcement or music. When your project is completed, and everything is all hooked up to Timecode, you want to make sure that your lighting doesn’t miss its cue. There are two features to help sync your lights and sound: Simulation Audio (available in every project), and Audio Out (available for LPC X, VLC and VLC+

Lighting design is often inextricably tied to daylight, twilight and dark. Whether it is an outdoor structure illuminated with ambient light in mind, or an interior space attempting to replicate circadian rhythm; planning and playing back lighting is all about the time of day, or where the sun is right now. To help you easily set this up we offer Real Time and Astronomical Timelines which allow

Setting an override colour via a touch screen is a relatively simple task in Pharos Designer. You pick your colour on the colour wheel and use the Set RGB action to set your lights to match. This can also be easily done with sliders; one for red, one for green and one for blue. But what if you want to mix and match? In this Tips & Tricks, we will be covering how you can keep your sliders and

Designer has a number of alternative fixture selection methods on the layout plan view to allow for easier selection, as well as altering the current selection. To see the selection method options, right-click in the space on the plan view (not a fixture) and you will see the following context menu: The four selection methods are as follows: Normal selection is the default selection method.

The duplication wizard is a great time-saver for many simple fixture duplication functions, but it has a lot more to offer. So, in this Tips & Tricks, we will be covering the more esoteric features of the duplication wizard. Firstly, we’ll cover the Circle duplication method. This can be useful to create symmetrical circles or to create arcs and arches (by deleting the excess fixtures). To

Fixture templates are designed to fulfil a certain niche where you have a repeating cluster of fixtures that are shaped and patched in a similar way. These are usually created out of individual fixtures, or strings of fixtures, but to enable simple replication and retention, these can be added into a template to be used again. To start, right-click on the fixture that will be the fixture template