Copying Labels

The syntax of copying cue labels is not currently supported.... and here's why.  IF we supported the syntax, logic follows  it would be:

Cue 5 Label Copy to Cue 7 Enter.  Well, "Copy to Cue 7" is a perfectly legal label.  So, if you do that, you end up with that label on cue 5!

We are currently pondering several tools to facilitate labeling.  Will advise when an approach has been devised.

Hope that helps (its an answer, anyway).

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Just as a thought. If two Q's have the same lable then, in my mind at least, the stage looks should be similar if not the same. Why not coppy the whole Q and adjust as necassary? When you copy a Q all the information, including lables go with it.

As a work around, in patch for labeling chanels. You can use the syntax:

Chan 1 copy to chan 2 enter (asks for comformation)

Now there are some gottchas. The first is that you need to know that this will take any address that is assigned to the channels being coppied to, to address 0. So if you try and do this function after patching your show then parts of your patch will disapear. But, if you have planned out your patch and lable it first then it would be eays. And you can do a range of copy. So lets just say that you have 12 VL 2500 spots on your first electric. And in patch you want to lable them as VL 2500 1E. And if they are channels 1-12. So you would lable chanel 1. Then coppy chanel 1 to channels 2 through 12. And then patch your desk channels, I am sorry addresses. And you are off running.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Ben

Regarding copying labels - this brings up a point with labels that I wanted to address, that could also help his problem.

When a cue/channel already has a label it would be nice that if you went to Relabel the item that the current label would populate into the command line so that you could reedit it. If you selected a range of cues/channels the command line would display the label for the first selected item (if you selected out of order), so that when you pushed enter, the remaining items would take the name of the first selection.

What think?

Jason,

I agree with this 100%.

 

I would also like to have an option to see channel lables in live displays. It would be very useful for me at times.

Thanks for all of that!

I guess, I'll have to get organised and label & copy before I patch!

I agree that having the original label in the command line would be useful when going to re-edit.