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beyond:40_-lasers [2025/05/09 09:26] Bob Varkevisser [For Timeline shows:] |
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| ====== 40+ lasers ====== | ====== 40+ lasers ====== | ||
| - | BEYOND Ultimate currently | + | BEYOND Ultimate currently supports 40 Hardware controllers (FB4 or FB3) per installation. This requires a high-performance pc to run. However, there are a few options, as we do have a number of clients who regularly exceed 40 lasers, and even up to hundreds of lasers. This mainly looks like having multiple PCs running together. |
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| Once you are finished programming, | Once you are finished programming, | ||
| - | The easiest to code them all together | + | Probably the easiest |
| - | Otherwise, you will want to have something like a TC4000 for each computer and run separate audio tracks to each. | + | You can broadcast Artnet timecode on a network that is separate from all the laser nets by plugging each pc into this separate network through additional network adapters on those computers. Then some master can send it all over the network, and all BEYOND instances can listen to it. |
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| + | Otherwise, you may use a TC4000 | ||
| We recommend maintaining a PC as the " | We recommend maintaining a PC as the " | ||
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| But simplistically, | But simplistically, | ||
| - | You can learn more about Beyond and timecode | + | * [[beyond: |
| ===== For Live Shows: ===== | ===== For Live Shows: ===== | ||
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| Create your live workspace and save the file. Distribute this to each pc for each group of lasers, so that the workspace file is the same for them all. Then use the Beyond talk server to connect all " | Create your live workspace and save the file. Distribute this to each pc for each group of lasers, so that the workspace file is the same for them all. Then use the Beyond talk server to connect all " | ||
| - | You can learn about the Beyond talk server | + | * [[beyond: |
| ===== For DMX Shows: ===== | ===== For DMX Shows: ===== | ||
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| * [[beyond: | * [[beyond: | ||
| - | * [[beyond: | + | * [[beyond:video: |
| ===== Direct DMX control of FB4s: ===== | ===== Direct DMX control of FB4s: ===== | ||
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| There is an alternative option for DMX control of FB4's from a console directly, where the content is stored on the SD card on the FB4's and triggered from DMX directly, the limitations on this are setup is longer on the console, and the lasers look less smooth as dmx and artnet packets only really go up to about 30fps while lasers can run above 120fps regularly. DMX server smooths this out for you. | There is an alternative option for DMX control of FB4's from a console directly, where the content is stored on the SD card on the FB4's and triggered from DMX directly, the limitations on this are setup is longer on the console, and the lasers look less smooth as dmx and artnet packets only really go up to about 30fps while lasers can run above 120fps regularly. DMX server smooths this out for you. | ||
| - | Learn more about Direct DMX Control of FB4s: | + | ==== Learn more about Direct DMX Control of FB4s: ==== |
| - | Things | + | * [[hardware: |
| + | * [[hardware:fb4: | ||
| - | How to install and set up the FB4 Beam Content Pack | + | // |
| - | How to set up your FB4 laser from a lighting console | + | |
| - | - This is a lot of work for the computer to process. You will want and need a very high-performance PC, and you will need to use parametric images when making your cues. They are very efficient and help with performance: | + | This is a lot of work for the computer to process. You will want and need a high-performance PC, and you will need to use parametric images when making your cues. They are very efficient and help with performance: |
| - | Check out more about performance: | + | ==== Check out more about performance: |
| - | How to use the Parametric Images Editor in BEYOND software | + | * [[beyond: |
| - | How to use BEYOND Monitoring Tools and Performance Tuning | + | * [[beyond: |
| - | - Each computer needs its own separate BEYOND license | + | |
| - | - Each computer and group of lasers needs to be on an independent network from each other, so each computer can only see up to 40 FB4s on the network. | + | Note that: |
| - | - It is recommended that you power up the lasers in the order you want them to be in. BEYOND this will make zoning and assigning FB4s to zones much faster. | + | Each computer needs its own separate BEYOND license\\ |
| + | Each computer and group of lasers needs to be on an independent network from each other, so each computer can only see up to 40 FB4s on the network.\\ | ||
| + | It is also recommended that you power up the lasers in the order you want them to be in. BEYOND this will make zoning and assigning FB4s to zones much faster.\\ | ||
| We hope this helps clear up and explain how you can use Pangolin products to control more than 40 lasers! Let us know if you have any further questions! | We hope this helps clear up and explain how you can use Pangolin products to control more than 40 lasers! Let us know if you have any further questions! | ||
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