Presetting Movers Before the Cue

Hi Michael-

This is the Automark function, which can be enabled in the Setup menu. With this enabled, the desk will look ahead 1 cue, and if a) the light is currently off and b) one or more NPs (color, focus, beam - or any combination of them) are have a move instruction, it will move them in the cue before.

You might want to eventually explore the Referenced Mark function of the desk as well - this allows you to determine where a light will mark - this mark remains dynamic, of course. In Cue 8, you tell the desk to mark a light in Cue 3. In Cue 3, the desk looks ahead to see where it should be, which allows you to freely change position/colour/gobo/etcetera without worrying about updating the cue where it presets.

-luke-

A BIG note that you MUST have Auto Mark enabled before you record any cues requiring it.

You cannot record a bunch of ML cues and think "Oh Jeez, I want to Auto Mark this stuff" and then toggle it on.  Won't work

SB

Hi Steve - unless I'm missing a trick, that shouldn't be needed. If you enable Automark, it will work on existing cues. I just tried it with some scrollers in an existing showfile and it certainly seemed to work...I now got an M flag in the cue before, it showed Q7 for their value, and holding data revealed them in the correct frame.

Unless this is new in 1.9, but I don't think so...

?

-luke-

We had tried to enable AM in v1.7 back in the fall, after cues had been written.  A call to tech support told me that it had to be enabled prior.

Nice to know it should work after...

SB

I am just starting to write cues, so I've enabled AutoMark before writing.  Thanks for all the help!

Michael