Bug in tracking with Auto-mark on?

This is how automark works. You have a cue, cue 1, technically with two move instructions in it.

1. The move to the home values
2. The move to the marked values

You then created a new cue 1, by homing the lights, and recording a cue 1. You haven't told the lights to re-mark (you can do this by typing "Go to Cue Enter), so they are just going to stay in their most recent values - in this case the home values. This is why you get that live move.

Eos is showing you the values that "win" at the end of the cue.

When you backup into cue 1, you are telling the desk that it should be set up for cue 2. So the lights mark. The move instruction is unfortunately hidden by the mark - if you turn off automark and part out the referenced mark you can see the moves in two different parts.

I don't understand.  If I change the values in Blind in Cue 1 which you see me do, am I not overriding the automark?  Why does it show correctly in Blind but not in live? The fact that I was able to do the live move initially but then not repeat makes it seem like it's a bug.

You went from cue 2 into cue 1 (play back the state of cue 1, and the marked values)

You then homed the lights

You then recorded cue 1 again

But you hadn't told Eos that you wanted those lights to re-mark. Sadly the console can't read your mind (probably v5.0!) and doesn't know when you're done working with those lights. If you had homed the values, recorded cue 1, and then turned them on and they were marked for cue 2 you'd probably be pretty miffed!

Sorry, so if I'm understanding correctly if I just, in Live, "Go to Cue 1 Enter" it will be different than going backwards in the cuelist?  That still doesn't work.  When I "Go to Cue" the color doesn't change.

Sorry, so if I'm understanding correctly if I just, in Live, "Go to Cue 1 Enter" it will be different than going backwards in the cuelist?  That still doesn't work.  When I "Go to Cue" the color doesn't change.

No, he's saying that because you had *just* recorded a new LQ 1, and were still sitting in it, that the console didn't re-mark the lights for you. It didn't process the auto-mark for the channels you were just working with. It just was sitting happy exactly how you recorded it, in case you were going to make further changes to those channels. This is why you saw a change when you re-recorded LQ 1 and then advanced to LQ 2. You weren't actually in a "complete" LQ 1. You were in LQ 1, without any marking being re-applied. This obviously never happens when you are running a show in order.

The Go2Q Enter command he's suggesting isn't going to show you a live color move from white to the color of LQ 2. It's essentially saying to the console "re-load this cue" which is telling the console to reload it fully, including the mark that you have setup for LQ 2. He was telling you a way to tell the lights to re-mark.

As a test, go through your video process again, re-recording your LQ 1 as Skypanels @ Home. And then instead of advancing to LQ 2, just do a G2Q Enter. You'll see the mark happen. (Again, if Data latching is off, you'll see the purple MK show up in the intensity field, indicating the mark).