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 (availableRead more
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Say you are working on a project, and throughout the day, you need very specific effects or lights to shine at certain times, or you want to slowly fade through two or more colours from sunrise to sunset. To help you easily set this up we offer Real Time and Astronomical Timelines. Real Time TimelinesRead more
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. ButRead more
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. Clicking a fixture or dragging aRead more
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 orRead more
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 usedRead more
The Patch Navigator is a useful and powerful tool during commissioning if you need to find or identify a fixture. Let’s imagine an occurrence where you, as the technician, are looking to find and select different instances of a fixture that you have patched. In the view above, you can see that thereRead more
When working with fixtures in the layout, there are many keyboard modifiers that have been added to make your life easier. Here’s just a few of our favourites. For the full list, take a look in Help. For starters, a useful tool to re-centre the whole layout and zoom-to-fit the entire layout is activated byRead more
This tips and tricks guide will cover the gradient tools, including the randomiser, and the gradient stop tools. First things first; enabling them! Next to the gradient bar, you will see a button with three dots “…” This is used throughout Designer to indicate that there are more features tied to this that have beenRead more
Deciding to Migrate Designer 2 is a completely new platform from our previous version of Designer and therefore using it requires both hardware and Designer project files to go through a migration process to convert them to the new platform. We encourage all new projects to use Designer 2 from the start but what aboutRead more
