Cancel previous Cue's duration

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Hi Everyone. 
 Bit confused here. Using an ETC Gio, and in one cue, there is an initial fade over 2:30. It is through a relatively long scene, and basically we wanted the lighting to reduce to lower levels as the scene progresses. The time is never exactly 2:30 and we have to go to the next cue which is basically a black out. The only issue is, the lights used in the previous cue continue to fade out. 
 
 Basically, I want to know if there is anyway of cancelling the fade in the previous cue and just snapping to the next one when I press Go? 
 
 Cheers.

johannes · Accepted Answer

Assert the next cue (i.e. The cue that you want to override the running fade) syntax: cue xx assert enter

ueliriegg · Answer

Watch out there are two Assert buttons on the Gio, a black and a white one. For this syntax you need to use the black one.

ueliriegg · Answer

as an explanation why this happens: 
 Eos is a move-fade desk. this means channels will only move if they're explicitly told to do so, otherwise they'll just keep doing what they have been doing before. the way to tell a channel to move is with a move instruction. you can recognize them by the font color: intensities written in blue or green and non-intensitiy parameters written in blue are such move instructions. parameters written in magenta or white are not move instructions and as such will not cause a channel to move. 
 in your case your slow fading channels have received a move instruction to fade in 2:30. but in the black out cue the have a magenta or white colored intensity. so they just keep on doing what they already have been doing, which is to fade out slowly. 
 Assert will tell a cue to treat all its values as move instructions, no matter their font color. 
 some commands include an assert, e.g. GoToCue. so if you use GoToCue to jump to a cue you will see that the magenta colored channels fade as well.

Cancel previous Cue's duration

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