Aiming moving heads in the setup
While setting up, you check here where your moving heads can reach and how big their light circle is on the floor. It's a planning aid for stand height and position.
Step by step
- Open “Aim” on the left. “Default aim” is at the very top.
- Click “Preview”. The heads shine open white at their targets, and DMX values are ignored meanwhile.
- Pick a preset:
Dance floor, fan and crossed compared. - “At dance floor”: all (or the selected) heads at the center of the dance floor.
- “Fan”: the heads share the dance floor from left to right.
- “Crossed”: left aims right and vice versa.
- For your own target, select heads with ⇧ or ⌘ / Ctrl and click on the floor while the preview is running.
- “Light circle size” shows labels on the floor, e.g. “Ø 1.8 m · 5.2 m away”.
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