Discreet Chanel Timing and Copy To

Ben, when you copy an entire cue, the cue level timing and discrete timing is copied as well.   .... Unless.... the copy results in a tracked instruction for a channel with discrete timing.  Since tracked levels don't have timing data, that information is abandoned.  

So, if cue 1 has timing on channel 1, and you copy to cue 2 (and there are no cues in the middle), all of the values in cue 2 are tracks. So there is no discrete timing.  If you copy cue 1 to another location, and those channels are move instructions in the destination cue, the discrete timing does go with it.

Does that help?

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Ben, when you copy an entire cue, the cue level timing and discrete timing is copied as well.   .... Unless.... the copy results in a tracked instruction for a channel with discrete timing.  Since tracked levels don't have timing data, that information is abandoned.  

So, if cue 1 has timing on channel 1, and you copy to cue 2 (and there are no cues in the middle), all of the values in cue 2 are tracks. So there is no discrete timing.  If you copy cue 1 to another location, and those channels are move instructions in the destination cue, the discrete timing does go with it.

Does that help?

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so anne, if i get you right, you can assert the cue before you copy it to its new location to preserve the original cue timing?

No, not really.  At the moment, if the copy results in a tracked value in the destination cue, the timing is discarded.     We do this to try to keep the show file clean.  We will be adding options in the future so when you copy, either at a cue or channel level, you can preserve or force a block/assert on the destination cue.  That will preserve the timing regardless.

Hope that makes some sense.  If this is confusing, your best option (as always) is to look at this in blind spreadsheet, so you can see the results of a copy.  

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thanks anne.

That does make a lot of sense. And that is exactly what happened in my case. I just did not know that it would do this. But it makes logical sense.

Thank you

-Ben