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Professional Tech Talk: How-To’s of Pixel Mapping & Choosing the Right
Product. Product Manager Anthony Chiappone dives into the best options for
pixel mapping control, the pros and cons of various pixel mapping software, and
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You’ve got the gear, now learn how to clean and maintain it with this week’s edition of Tech Talk, 2pm (EST), on Facebook LIVE with CHAUVET Professional Product Manager Michael Graham. Tech Talk: How to Perform Moving Head Maintenance teaches you how to get under the hood of your movers, what you need to get the job done, and how to extend the life of your fixture. Visit our website for more training and tutorials.
Join CHAUVET Professional Product Managers on Facebook LIVE every Thursday at 2 p.m. (EST) for tutorials, training, and live Q&As. This week, CHAUVET Professional Product Manager Anthony Chiappone provides in-depth tutorials on how to setup the CHAUVET Professional F-Series Ground Support 2 Kit, plus gives the rundown on how to apply different curve angles with the DRB-Curve Kit X2. In this episode, learn how to ensure stability and safety during fast and easy setup for dynamic video wall design. Keep training with Tech Talk on the CHAUVET Professional website.
Check out one of our first ever tech talks from back in 2010 talking about DMX and AMX Hard to believe it, but there are still systems out there using AMX to run their lighting systems. We have come so far with the proliferation of Art-Net, ACN, and SACN since this was written, but still, its all relevant.
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET® Professional
Mike Graham pensive in front of MVP™ video panels.
1. What is AMX? More commonly known as Multiplex or Analog Multiplex, AMX 192 was devised to multiplex up to 192 analog dimmer levels down a four-wire cable. There are thousands of installations that still utilize AMX protocol because the dimming systems they were plugged into were built like Mack Trucks and endured.
2. The transition to DMX. Boxes to convert DMX into AMX were developed in order to avoid problems with the control. As technology began to become less expensive and started to filter into the lighting world, a new protocol was needed to handle larger dimming racks and moving lights. DMX-512 superseded AMX 192, but it came with its own sets of headaches. No standard existed in how DMX protocol was delivered to fixtures. Each manufacturer had its own method. This left smaller companies that made basic dimming and control in the lurch.
3. What is MPX and why use it? Several manufacturers began to use a system called Multiplex – a touch of both DMX and AMX. Others used their versions as MPX. So here we are with all of these smaller controllers out there with Multiplex outputs sometimes sitting right along a DMX-512 output.
When trying to answer some overwhelming questions such as, “What port do I plug into?”, or “How do I keep from ruining a fixture because multiplex puts current down the line?” follow this simple rule of thumb: if you are using like control with like dimmers, Multiplex is the way to go. If Multiplex is all your controller puts out and you want to control intelligent lights, you need to get a new controller.
What a week! Touring the Today Show, Fantasia out on the road with the Legend 230 Beam et al, meeting people all over the world, and spreading the good news of CHAUVET Professional!
Happy Monday, everyone! It’s that time again, time to look at what you like to read on the CHAUVET Professional Blog — we write for you, and we love to see what you love to read!
It’s been an exciting month here at CHAUVET Professional, with stories worldwide as far as the eye can see! We love seeing what you like the read most on the CHAUVET Professional Blog, and this month is no exception. So, without further ado, here’s what you, the readership, chose as the most read stories of May 2014!
Happy Friday, lighting industry! Another weekend is upon us, and whether you’re out there getting ready to rock a weekend show stop, heading into the airport to get to your next gig, or just sitting at home prepping for the summer’s work, we here at CHAUVET Professional salute you!
