ETC Unison Mosaic Designer v1.11.0 - Manual (Page 86)

Unison Mosaic Designer User Manual
Program - Working with presets
Applying presets
At its most basic let’s, for example, make a fixture or group of fixtures go green. Select the Group folder and the
“Fixed Colour” preset within and drag this onto the appropriate timeline row so that it starts at the required time,
say at 0 seconds on the left. A 10 second long red strip (the default length and colour) will appear already selected
for manipulation via the Preset Properties pane on the right. “Fixed Colour” preset properties are limited to colour
and timing, use the colour picker to select green and set a fade time and skew as required.If you have the Sim-
ulate window open you can now simply click Start and you’ll see these fixtures fade to green using the time and
transition you have just entered and, after 10 seconds, fade back to black using the default release time of 2
seconds.
Presets can be moved and stretched on the timeline using the mouse to vary their start, end and length or altern-
atively you can type exact values into the Timing fields top right. Click View Transitions to display the fade and
release timing graphically which can also be stretched using the mouse as an alternative to typing fade and
release time values into the Timing pane.
So getting slightly more adventurous let’s say you want the fixtures to remain green for longer, say 20 seconds,
and then fade to a rainbow effect. Firstly either drag the end of the green preset to 20 seconds on the timeline or
set the end or length value to be 20 seconds via the Timing fields. Now select the “Rainbow Effect” preset (also in
the Group folder) and drag this onto the timeline immediately following the green preset (so it starts at 20
seconds) and set its period to be 2 seconds with a “Spread” offset type. Again, use the Simulate window to view
this new programming (click Reset then Start).
TIP! Hold Shift while dragging for finer resolution (centisecond). Hold Ctrl (Apple) while dragging to snap to the
start/end of other placed presets.
Programmed groups, fixtures or elements - i.e. those with at least one preset applied - are shown in blue in the
Browser, unprogrammed remain black.
Colour picker & user palette
The majority of presets allow you to select one or more colours and so the colour picker and user palette is used
to select a colour either graphically or numerically, two modes are provided:
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