Default Show - Do you use one and what do you set up in it

I have a couple different default files -- most of my work is with just conventionals at one venue and conventionals and 40 Selador fixtures at another. I have a default file with my independents for house lights, work lights, rehearsal house lighting, and such. My default groups are for my rep plot, which some cases I can use as-is, other times they require slight modifications, and some times I start from scratch. All of my cyc lights are patched as devices in my default files. I also have a handful of color palettes programmed for my cyc and Selador fixtures.

One of the biggest things I have in my default files are my screen layouts. I have a different layout for different times in the programming process; one for programming effects, another for revising cues, another for live playback, etc.

The screen layout I use the most is the one with two Live screens. The first has my conventionals in the normal channel icon format, and the second has just my LED's in a channel layout as they're hung on stage.

It's so stupidly easy to quickly throw together dynamic effects that I don't worry about leaving any in the default file because when I need one, I can throw it together in thirty seconds.

I did go the route two years ago of making a nice channel layout showing all of my circuits in the theatre, and every fixture in our rep plot was one it with the appropriate symbols and colors -- seemed like a good idea at the time but I've almost never used it. Had I realized then it was impractical to have a diagram of all 288 circuits in the theatre, I wouldn't have gone through the trouble of making it.

I have a couple different default files -- most of my work is with just conventionals at one venue and conventionals and 40 Selador fixtures at another. I have a default file with my independents for house lights, work lights, rehearsal house lighting, and such. My default groups are for my rep plot, which some cases I can use as-is, other times they require slight modifications, and some times I start from scratch. All of my cyc lights are patched as devices in my default files. I also have a handful of color palettes programmed for my cyc and Selador fixtures.

One of the biggest things I have in my default files are my screen layouts. I have a different layout for different times in the programming process; one for programming effects, another for revising cues, another for live playback, etc.

The screen layout I use the most is the one with two Live screens. The first has my conventionals in the normal channel icon format, and the second has just my LED's in a channel layout as they're hung on stage.

It's so stupidly easy to quickly throw together dynamic effects that I don't worry about leaving any in the default file because when I need one, I can throw it together in thirty seconds.

I did go the route two years ago of making a nice channel layout showing all of my circuits in the theatre, and every fixture in our rep plot was one it with the appropriate symbols and colors -- seemed like a good idea at the time but I've almost never used it. Had I realized then it was impractical to have a diagram of all 288 circuits in the theatre, I wouldn't have gone through the trouble of making it.