MIB - Move In Black

• This function will preposition attributes (except dimmer-attribute) for certain fixtures.

  MIB-functionallity requires the sequence to be run as tracking

Whenever a fixture's dimmer is brought to zero by a cue, the desk will look ahead for the next cue where the fixture is used (dimmer is above zero).
If this cue is tag'ed as MIB, the fixture will preposition all involved attributes (E.g. Gobo, Colour etc.) while dark, to the state of this cue.

• It is the action "fading to zero" that initiate the MIB.

This means that i.e. a fixture that is not used until cue 5 will not MIB, as it has never been faded out.
You need to add a dimmervalue of zero in one of the earlier cues. (which will be the cue where the fixture will preposition)

• A common way to deal with this issue is to have a start cue with all dimmers at zero.

Cues that are able to MIB (or partly MIB), (have fixtures fading in, that has been faded out) are marked with an asteric (*) in the MIB-column.

Alternatively to the MIB-setting of each cue from the Executor Sheet (EditMenu), you may from the AssignMenu override the cuespecific settings for the whole sequence.

Under SETUP Defaults, the default MIB Fade & Delay time may be adjusted

• MIB-fade is the time a fixture is using to preposition - this may be increased if you have noisy fixtures.

• MIB-delay is the time the fixture waits after faded out, until it starts to MIB. - this may be increased if you have slow responding lamp filament (e.g. 5kW with scroller)

In the fixtureschedule it is possible to set individual MIB-times for each attribute of each fixturetype.

Sometimes one need to disable MIB for certain parameters of a cue, e.g. gobo&color should preposition, but pan/tilt should move in the cue (while fixture is fading up).
This can be achieved by giving individual timing to these attributes (e.g. pan/tilt)