We did a 1st light blocking exercise today for May Poppins Act1. A couple of little things came up and we didn't have time to wade through the books so I'm sitting here tonight trying to re-create and solve but if anyone gets there before me I can knock off earlier;
Saving Cues; Lights were changed and [Record][Cue][#] entered. 1st column of PSD would give cue number and Int Up / Int Down would show ( 5 ) as expected. Now our designer went to save another cue but this time it didn't look like it had "held" I.E. His recorded cue # appeared in the left hand column but there was nothing in the Up/Down columns? The only way I can reproduce that this evening is if I try to save a cue that has no changes from the previous one! Because, if I go back and change one channel even very slightly and come back to record I get both the cue# and the Up/Down. Am I correct in this assumption?
And lets say I have recorded cue 3. Do I HAVE to [Record][Cue][4][Enter] or is there a shorter way whereby 4 is assumed?
Now lets say we have 60 cues in the PSD. He got annoyed because he would forget his next cue number to record and looked at the PSD, when he entered [Record] or [Record][Cue] however the PSD screen had scrolled back to the 1st few cues! I.E. He would have to press page up (or was it down) to get to the end of the list! (If we had an auto number, see last question) this would be mute.
Last question honestly - when clearing the command line and the red light came on the [Clear] button he had to press [Clear] or [Backspace] several times, now I am sure I saw somewhere a single key entry to clear the whole command line - was it [Undo]?
OK - now back to hacking this out.
