Capture - Ambient Lighting

Remarks

• these macros use a combination of ambient lighting and exposure to simulate night, dusk and daytime (which can also be helpful to make fixtures more visible when setting up capture)

• ActionScript.SetProperty.Float

• Visualiser.Capture.AmbientLighting
• Visualiser.Capture.ExposureAdjustment

captureambientlighting.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<avolites.macros>
 
  <!-- AmbientLighting, Alex del Bondio - April 2019 -->
  <macro id="adb.Macros.Capture.day" name="Capture Day">
    <active binding="{propertyLink id='Visualiser.Capture.AmbientLighting' 
      converter='Math.EqualityConverter' 
      converterParameter='1'}"/>
    <sequence>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty.Float("Visualiser.Capture.AmbientLighting", 1)</step>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty.Float("Visualiser.Capture.ExposureAdjustment", 1)</step>
    </sequence>
  </macro>
 
  <macro id="adb.Macros.Capture.dusk" name="Capture Dusk">
    <active binding="{propertyLink id='Visualiser.Capture.AmbientLighting' 
      converter='Math.EqualityConverter' 
      converterParameter='0.3'}"/>
    <sequence>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty.Float("Visualiser.Capture.AmbientLighting", 0.3)</step>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty.Float("Visualiser.Capture.ExposureAdjustment", 0.5)</step>
    </sequence>
  </macro>
 
  <macro id="adb.Macros.Capture.night" name="Capture Night">
    <active binding="{propertyLink id='Visualiser.Capture.AmbientLighting' 
      converter='Math.EqualityConverter' 
      converterParameter='0.05'}"/>
    <sequence>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty.Float("Visualiser.Capture.AmbientLighting", 0.05)</step>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty.Float("Visualiser.Capture.ExposureAdjustment", 0.5)</step>
    </sequence>
  </macro>
 
</avolites.macros>

This explains the functional steps within the sequence. For all the other XML details please refer to Formats and syntax

• Visualiser.Capture.AmbientLighting sets the Ambient Lighting level
• Visualiser.Capture.ExposureAdjustment sets the Exposure level

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