Action Steps:

• If you are new to Lightshark, here’s a few things we want you to know before you get started.
• The very first thing we’ll always do in the Lightshark is to patch our fixtures.
  • Patching is we tell the Lightshark what lights we have and assign DMX addresses.
  • We can then put those addresses into the lights, connect them to the console and start controlling them.
• What’s a fixture?
  • A fixture is anything that we can control with DMX
• In our main window of the Lightshark we see that we have groups.
  • Groups are a way to select multiple lights at the same time.
  • Lightshark creates some all groups for each fixture type you patched, but feel free to create your own to suite your needs.
• When we select a fixture or group, they turn Magenta to show they are selected.
  • On the right side of our screen we’ll find all the parameters of our fixtures like; Intensity, Focus, Beam, Color etc
  • When we make changes to those parameters, we’ll then store them to Palettes
• Pallets are a way to apply pre-defined setting of a parameter to the selected fixtures.
• After we’ve created our Palettes, we can select our desired fixtures and apply some Palettes to them.
  • We can then press the Record key and store them to a cue.
  • A cue is simply what we’ll play back by pressing a button
  • Cue’s are built within Cuelists
  • Cuelists can contain multiple Cue’s and can be turned into a Chase
• The next thing we have is the effects.
  • The effects are simply taking those parameters and applying some movement to them.
  • In the Lightshark we apply effects on top of regular parameters
• The programmer will show you what you’ve selected and what you have applied and what will be recorded.
  • Only the parameters in the programmer will be recorded.