Base effects: what each effect does

Settings you'll see often

• Values in beats such as “Grid”, “Step”, “Period” or “Change every” are picked from “1/16”, “1/8”, “1 beat”, “2 beats”, “1 bar”, “2 bars” and “4 bars”.
• “Color” starts out empty for brightness and tube effects. Empty means: the color comes from another layer. Once you pick a color, the clip colors too.
• “Offset” or “Moving heads”: “together” means all at once, “Canon” one after another like a wave, “opposite” the other way round.
• A clip only covers lower layers in what it controls. Brightness effects control brightness, color effects only color, movement effects only position, movement or gobo. So you can stack a “Chase” and a “Color chase” on two layers.