The PSD Flags - Question

Definition of L in the MV column (Live Move): Non-intensity parameter changes while intensity is moving to or from 0.

Definition of L in the MV column (Live Move): Non-intensity parameter changes while intensity is moving to or from 0.

Right. The "Live" move here was between cues 4 and 5. So, I was wondering why did the "L" come up against cue 1 and not cue 4?

Because before cue 1 your channel has intensity 0 and pan/tilt at home values, and in cue 1 it has an intensity > 0 and different pan/tilt/color values. This is the definition of the L.

Since in cue 4 everything marks for cue 5 there is no pan/tilt/color change when fading in.

OK. Getting there. The L in 1 (home to new P&T, 0 to full Int) and M in 3 which sets the P&T ready for 4 while Int at zero makes sense.

From 4 to 5 though the ML P&T change while Int is stays at full (Pink "FL" in 5). Isn't this then a "Move while light"? Deserving a "L" in the m/v column?

We have programmers who will move a ML head while lit and cause what I call a "Smear" as the beam moves across the stage. Doesn't look good! I would like to scan the PSD to see where these moves happen without running every cue.

L isn't "Move while light". It's "Move while intensity fades from or to 0".

You will have to check if there are any Focus, Color or Beam moves, indicated by a number plus a box around it in the PSD fade time columns.

But an Automark also moved Focus, Color and Beam, so this would be another reason why you see a boxed number in the Focus, Color or Beam timing columns.

Oh lordy. I got off from a bad premise there. Thank you for sorting this out.