Protect a cue
You can protect your cues from tracking values changing the look of the cue.
There's a protected column in the Cue view. This will draw a white line above the cue to indicate that tracking
stops here.
A protected cue functions as a "block" or "mark" cue. This means that it will assert values (including tracked
values) from the cue, when you run it.
If you run backwards out of a protected cue, then fixtures will fade back to the values they had in the previous
cues. If this is a tracked value then it' will use the fade time from the cue where they originally got the values. E.g.
Fixture 1 get s a values of 100% in cue 1 and 50% in cue 2 (fade time 5 seconds). You also have cue 3 (fade time
1 second) with no changes for fixture 1. Then you store cue 4 with fixture 1 at 0% and a fade time of 0 seconds.
Cue 4 is a protected cue. If you are in cue 4 and press Go- and fade to cue 3, then fixture 1 will fade to 50%
(from cue 2) and it'll use the fade time from cue 2. So other fixtures stored in cue 3 will use the fade time from cue
3 but Fixture 1, that have tracked values, will use 5 seconds.
Go to a specific cue in a cue list
You can go to a specific cue by pressing the Goto key. You go to the cue as soon as you execute the command
(with Please )
E.g. you want to go to cue number 3, but you don't want to run through the other cues to get there: Goto Cue
3 Please .
This can also be done using a specific fade time. E.g. you want to go to cue number 10, but cue 10 have a 2
minute fade time. You just need to be in cue 10, so you would like to overwrite the cue fade: Goto Cue 1 0
Time (= Fade command) 1 Please . Now you fade into cue 10 in 1 second.
Copy a cue
You can copy a cue to a different cue by using the Copy key. The copy operation can have two copy options.
"CueOnly" will copy your cue without tracking the copied values, but leaving the cues following the new cue
without changing their look. "Status" is used to include tracked values in the source cue. If this isn't activated,
then you'll only copy the attribute values that are actually stored in the source cue.
Depending on your copy destination, then you also have some different options. If you are copying to a new, not
already existing, cue then you can just copy the cue. If you copy to an already existing cue, then you can choose
to merge the new values into the destination or you can choose to overwrite the existing values with the new
ones - this will delete all the existing values and apply the new values.
E.g. you want to copy your cue 2 at a new location. It's going to be cue number 3.5 - you want the tracked values
from cue number 1 to be included and you don't want to change cue number 4: Copy Cue 2 At 3 . 5
Please . Then you get a Choose Copy method window like this:
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