Our techs have used a EXP3 for over 20 years and just will not allow me to use Tracking mode in the ELE2!
And we have little ML experience. Here is a scenario:
We have a ton of cues many of them pointing ML1 in different directions. Whilst in a cue a tech wants to turn ML1 bright white and RECORD it to a sub as "lightning" that he can Bump.
This will record all the stage to the sub (Right/Wrong?) And, if while he is in a cue pointing ML1 way upstage he bumps that 'Lightning' sub the P&T and all other lighting data recorded at the time of RECORD will try to exercise (Right/Wrong?). We have seen some pretty ugly demos of this.
I'm thinking that RECORD ONLY would only record the manual changes (in this case and Intensity and Color change) to the sub. So on Bump we shouldn't see ML1 try to point elsewhere or any other 'stuff' .ML1 should only go to to 100% and (if need be) change to white. (Right/Wrong?)
I've been sitting here trying to think up a demo I could program at home here to demo the need for Record Only but keep messing up.