Hi All,
I'm hoping someone out there can help me come up with a good way to create essentially a remote control for a moving head stage lighgt, to use it as a follow spot.
The lights have DMX control and have a channel for pan and a channel for tilt. At the moment i use desk sliders to manually control the position of the lights and it's a nightmare! What i would like to do is assign those two channels to some form of control interface. my initial thought was a joystick but even better would be something that pans and tilts in the same way as a normal follow spot does.
Once i have that it would be good to be able to customise the sensitivity of the pan and tilt sensors to be able to customise the range of movement of the light relative to the input from the operator!
So i guess this is partly a hardware and partly a software question! There are a couple of off the shelf solutions out there that go about it in different ways and they are all super expensive and require buying completely new light fittings as well as the controllers!
Any thoughts or suggestions would be really helpful!
I'm hoping someone out there can help me come up with a good way to create essentially a remote control for a moving head stage lighgt, to use it as a follow spot.
The lights have DMX control and have a channel for pan and a channel for tilt. At the moment i use desk sliders to manually control the position of the lights and it's a nightmare! What i would like to do is assign those two channels to some form of control interface. my initial thought was a joystick but even better would be something that pans and tilts in the same way as a normal follow spot does.
Once i have that it would be good to be able to customise the sensitivity of the pan and tilt sensors to be able to customise the range of movement of the light relative to the input from the operator!
So i guess this is partly a hardware and partly a software question! There are a couple of off the shelf solutions out there that go about it in different ways and they are all super expensive and require buying completely new light fittings as well as the controllers!
Any thoughts or suggestions would be really helpful!