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Track Thru End
Sometimes it is desirable to track values from the last cue in the cuelist to the first cue. A real live example
for this is a looping cuelist that creates a color chase, that when you run it first should set the fixtures
intensity to 100% cue by cue. After the loop, they should stay on and just alternate colors between red
and blue.
Cue 2 Red 100% Blue Red Blue
Without Track Through End the intensity of a fixture is brought to 100% in each cue, and these values track
through for the duration of the loop. However, as soon as the cuelists loops to cue 1, the console
calculates tracking as if you just started this cuelist – hence only the first fixture would have its intensity set
to 100%.
To stop this happening, you need to enable “Track Thru End” – this will tell the console to track everything
from the last cue into the first as if it would be one large cuelist with a never-ending number of cues.