User's Manual

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The three control knobs are usually assigned to MENU, SPEED and BRIGHTNESS. There are some secondary
functions assigned to the knobs which are accessible if you press and turn the knobs, these are assigned to
specific parameters for each effect and are indicated by grey triangles behind the main parameter displays.
Most of the effects will also have the trigger function , assigned to the Centre knob (click the centre knob to trigger
start/stop the selected effect), or tap the TRIGGER on the touchscreen.
‘FADE’ (Designer Fade™)
Fade is a programmable fade that you can trigger to produce in-camera practical fade effects. Create a colour, set
your max brightness and diffusion in HOME, then go to SFX/FADE. You can trigger the fade by clicking the centre
knob, or touching the ‘TRIGGER’ on the touchscreen. Rotate the middle knob to set the fade duration, Rotate the
right knob to adjust the brightness. Best Fade results are obtained when ‘SYS/SETTINGS/Fine Dimming Mode’ is
set to ‘FINEST’.
‘LIGHTNING’
The Lightning effect simulates real lightning, it is a random effect but you can control the speed at which the
lightning bursts re-occur, ideally you would set the brightness (BRI) to 100% and the colour (COL) temperature
to 7000k or create a cool white with added blue. Click the centre knob to trigger (start/stop) the Lightning
effect. Rotate the centre knob to adjust the duration between the bursts of lightning (it will display XX which is
an indication of the effect frequency). The lightning range is from 1 up to 50 . Click the centre knob to arm the
effect and fade to black, TRIGGER will be highlighted - re-click the centre knob to trigger the effect, you can also
trigger the effect from an external trigger source via the PC port or Skyport wireless trigger. Press, hold and rotate
the right knob to adjust the pulse duration or rolling shutter compensation. Rotate the right knob to adjust the
maximum brightness level. You can create a custom colour in the Home menu, and then select SFX/lighting
to combine your custom colour with your edited effect. Finally you can store your custom colour and effect
combined into one of the SFX preset buttons.
NB - the duration of the lightning flashes is 20ms which is the recommended duration for cinematography,
although this value is adjustable so you can compensate for rolling shutter artifacts. The lightning strikes come in
bursts of between two and eight random length pulses.