Conventional
Fixtures
Conventional fixtures only have the lamp that you can control from the desk. You can change the colour by using gels and the gel holder at the front of the fixture and you can change the shape of the light using the barn doors. Some conventional fixtures cannot be focused whereas others can for example some have a thing you can spin at the back to focus the light and others have things you can move back and forth to change the distance for the lenses to tell the light to zoom and focus. These use dimmable power and no dmx cable so the desk controls the dimmable power to tell the fixture how bright or dim it has to be.
Types Of Conventional Fixtures
Profile - mostly used with gobos or as a spotlight as it has a thin beam that can be shaped
Fresnel - a light with a mid-wide beam that can be shaped with barn doors
Par Can - a wide light used to fill the atmosphere and add colour to scenes
Flood - a light that can fill wide areas to set atmospheres
Automated
Fixtures
Automated fixtures are the ones with multiple features. They use non-dimmable power which means they have constant power going Into the light. These lights have more features than conventional fixtures like gobos and led lamps that can change colour. For these fixtures to work they use DMX that transfers data to the light telling the light what to do like change colour or image and how bright or dim the light has to be. Some of these fixtures can move so the DMX also tells the light where to move using pan and tilt.
Types Of Automated Fixtures
LED - LED bulbs that change colour from the bulb
Spot - Small thin beam used to add shape to a show or light a specific thing.
Beam - A light that can change beam size and has multiple other things like gobos or colour mixing
Wash - changeable beam size with a very wide beam sometimes with gobos
Examples Of Automated Fixtures
