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Timecode and cuelists

Hi everyone,

Having a bit of hard time trying to understand f somethng is possible.

Essentially, I want to have a showfile with 4 timecode inputs (response gateways) to operate multiple rooms for an exhibition. In each room they all have their on cuelists for multiple cues running in there.

Is it possible to have multiple cuelists running from timecode without affecting any of the outputs from other cuelists?

In my experience, when using timecode for a single cuelist, the command is effectively "go" on a nominated cue which changes the overall output. Is there a world where multiple timecodes can run multiple cuelists and not interfere with eachother?

thankyou in advance

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    Multiple cuelists can absolutely run in parallel without affecting each other. As long as no running cue has competing information a channel and its parameters will stay put. If there are channels that need to be controlled by multiple cuelists this can be a little mit more involved, but if channels are not shared between cuelists (e.g. because they are located in different rooms and you use one cuelist per room) this is very simple: You programm your cues and don't have anything additional to do.

    The key however is making sure you don't have overlap between your cuelists. Besides just making sure that you record channels into the right cuelist you can also put a partition on a cuelist.

    Does this help?

  • 0 in reply to eos moderator

    Hi there!

    Thankyou so much!

    Can I please ask another question -

    If I have a show controller that has only 1 timecode output, can I use that system to send a second of timecode to trigger a cue in different cuelists? 

    For example if there's 5 different rooms operating separately in an exhibition set up and they are all triggered by a push button to start the show controller sequence, in their timelines if they had a second of timecode playing to trigger a cue and then stop, will the desk still operate ? Think of it similar to a midi cue where it sends a trigger and not a continuous run of timecode. It would be the same, however just small sections of timecode jumping between hours (each room could be triggered in different hours to distinguish the differences on the desk).  Is that possible?

    Thanks in advance!

  • 0 in reply to deccas

    Wouldn’t it be easier to forget the time code and just set follows on each cue so the desk just ran each cuelist sequence itself separately 

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    There is no technical reason why this would not work from a playback perspective, but great care is required during the programming part, because it would be easy to accidentally program information into the wrong cue list and/or source the wrong timecode generator. One way to help with this is to setup a separate user for each area, and then be sure to be in the right user while programming, using partitioning to ensure that you're only programming the correct channels. But that still doesn't prevent other problems -- again, it works, but I can see a dozen ways where user error can cause havoc. 

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