Multiple Cue Lists

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I have seen many threads on here about multiple cue lists, but none have quite had the problem I did. Using and ION, I set up about 10 cues in a cue list 2 to run my cyc lights and do a 20 minutes sunrise while the cues in cue list 1 continued to run with the GO button. The problem I had was that the cues in list 1 would "sometimes" override the cues in list 2. I could never figure out why some would and some wouldn't. I was careful not to program any values for the cues in list 1 while list 2 was running. When a cue in list 1 did take over I would go into the cyc lights in that cue and change their value to null, but this didn't seem to help. I was running in cue mode not tracking mode. I made sure that the cues in list one were not specifically calling the cyc lights with color or intensity. I eventually gave up and just staged the sunrise within the cues in list one. Is there something simple I missed. I haven't done much with assert, not sure this is what I needed or not. Any thoughts about what I was doing wrong?

Wuz314159 · Accepted Answer

Just a side note, you don't need a separate cuelist to accomplish a 20 minute sunrise.. Unlike the Express, a cue will continue to run regardless of going to the next few cues. Unless a cue interrupts those channels' movement. 
 Cue 1 will still be running 20 minutes later regardless of if you're on cue 2 or 200.

ueliriegg · Answer

a channel's parameter is owned by the cuelist that controlled this parameter last. if there is a move instruction in a cuelist for a channel that's curently not owned by this cuelist, then that parameter is stolen from the other cuelist. 
 to make sure your sunrise fade can run, you must avoid cuelist 1 stealing parameters away. this would happen either by a conflicting move instruction in cuelist 1 or by an assert in cuelist 1 (if the cyc lights have tracked values in cuelist 1). if you do have a move instruction in cuelist 1 that you want to get rid of, the way to do this is At Enter (if in Blind, it's just Chan 1 At Enter; in Live Chan 1 At Enter Update Enter). 
 GotoCue Out would also stop and re-set all cuelists. if cuelist 2 should continue but not cuelist 1 the alternative would be GotoCue 1/Out 
 using the Back button includes an Assert, so if you Back on cuelist 1 and you have tracked (magenta colored) values for your cyc lights, this will also steal the parameters from cuelist 2's fade and set them to where cuelist 1 says they should be

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