Description
Color Plugin
To have an Understanding of what this plugin works best for. Is it is meant mainly for use with fixtures with a Bulb preferably HMI in it. But what I use it for is fixtures with RGB values. I use it to get me in a general area of the temperature. Then I can set my illuminati meter on the stage. While back at the console to dial it in to the temperature I am after like 5400. Why because I am absolutely no good at mixing color. I cannot take RGB from 100 and dial in 5400 K easily. So this gives me a starter point. You say well my fixture has Lime or White. That is fine. Use this to get your start RGB values for your selected fixtures. Dial up the Lime or White for your intensity output and then Tweek the RGB to which ever kelvin you were after. You have a Range from 1000 to 12,000 in hundreths. You ask where did i get my values for the calculations. I found online a photographers site where he put up his RGB readings for his flash camera values. I just converted his list into Lua and adjusted the RGB values to the Decimal value cross referenced in his list. This plugin works for what I intend it for. It will work for you as well. But for LED fixtures you will still need to meter it for dialing it in. All LED fixtures use different LED’s. So you will never have the same color from a Spiider to a B-Eye. One favors the blue end the other the red end. But you will have a starting point to dial from. I recommend the Illuminati meter. Which I see they are now called Datacolor. Here is the site for it https://www.datacolor.com/spyder/products/lightcolor-meter/. It works perfect for my applications the greatest part you can set it up wherever you wanting to read and go to your console to tweek it. Feel free to ask any questions and leave a review. I will answer back.
mc –
For me, it works moderately well. I tested two lamps against each other and got fundamentally different results. RGBW was tested against RGBL.
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speedy –
Thank you for your review. The Kelvin is meant mainly for Globe fixtures. Even though I use it for RGB LED fixtures because it gives me a nice starting point that I can tweak from. Thats what I need since I am no good at dialing color from scratch. It won’t do anything for White or Lime. But I was on a pro-lights eclipse FS the other day used it too dial me a 5000 then turned the lime up for output and was a simple tweak of RGB to land it. It is for those that want a starting block mainly. I use the Illuminati Color meter that I can tweak from my iPhone at the console. If you wonder where I got the values from I found this page that had a set of values I used and created a LUA list from the python then just told MA to goto the values of the Kelvin you entered. https://andi-siess.de/rgb-to-color-temperature/. It would be great if I worked in a shop that had a lot of fixtures that I could sit back and record values from and put together a nice long list by fixture type. But you still ave to deal with age of LED output and dirty fixtures. Get me close and I can tweak from there. Thank you again for your purchase.