How do I make everything stop immediately?

I guess what you want to o is release al the cues/cuelists you are running. To do so press pig + release, and al your parameters will go to default.

Is what you want more like the Pause button on a CD player?

In this case, Pause all movement (pan, tilt, color, beam...), but keep intensity at current levels?

Yea I am looking for something like a pause button. I do not want to use pig release because that takes time to restore to the default look. I want to be able to capture the values that the console is sending at any instant.

Select all fixtures, Pig+Active at the moment you want to capture. That will get you mostly there.

Joshua,

Your question intrigued me so I played with it a bit before I had to run out to a meeting.

I tried things like Live -> Suck but that... we'll you know.

The best I could come up with would be to have a Group Pallet that is all the movers, and a Position Pallet for a "home" position.

When you want to freeze them go Group -> Position. Downside is they "jump" to the position.

That's as close as I can come so far. I'm wondering if there is a command to freeze the Effect engine?
Besides saving a show on a hog 500 running HogII.

No real easy to pause an effect waveform.
You technically could create a macro that sets the rate of the effects to zero after a pig+active.
Thats the only thing I can think of.

If your fixtures have some sort of MSpeed (like HES fixtures) that makes the fixture calculate movement times rather than the console. Then write a cue on a separate list that takes them to their maximum fade time. This will look like a "pause" for at least a few seconds.

Then when you release this list, your fixtures will go back to whatever they were doing.

I've tried an effect freeze on the Hog2 using a cue that froze them by setting the rates to zero. The console just did not like it. Nothing would happen when the cue fired. I tried setting it to something just above zero and the console was still unhappy with me. Wish I could help. I'm using one on a show next week and I might give it a try again if I have the time.

-Jeff

Where are you setting the rate? In the FX engine or on the fader?