Fireworks Gag

[Rockwell Mauro]

Hi Q People

I've been tasked with coming up with two gags for lights as well as sounds.

Our local theatre group is doing "Almost Maine" & "You can't take it with you"

Both plays have lighting gags in them. One is the aurora borealis and the other is a fireworks effect with sound.

I've used the timeline function before for a different play but the fireworks gag needs to be more precise; bright flash w/ an explosion happens, kind of thing.

My limitations are this; I'm using QLab .4.7, I have basic audio and pro video but not pro lights.  I have the basic 16 channels of DMX which was fine for the  'camp fire' gag I used before ( see attached )

And I figure I can do the same w/ the aurora gag, just change the colors to red, greens, pinks...  but the fireworks needs pops of flashes.

My question is this; is there a library of this type of effect somewhere in this forum and is there a trick to getting exactly the right place on the timeline for the pops?  I'm a FinalCutPro editor; I'm used to typing in timecode!  :-)

Thanks for your advice.

cheers

rockwell