Animate A Digital clock

We are now in the final rehearsals stage, when also the light programming happen.

My approach now is to have four background cue lists for every digit. The minutes will be the master list with 60s follow times, looping and at the end triggering a go on the next digit cue list via macro. 

I'm using macros to set the needed start time, change the follow times on the fly to speed the clock up and a macro to set the brightness via an inhibit sub.

This leads to several problems... 

1)

I wasn't aware that it's not possible to execute several macros in one cue via good old cue parts. Doesn't make sense to me... 

I could wrap all macros I need to start for several situations in another macro, but I fear it would be far too cluttered with all the different combinations needed... 

2)

Another problem is the fast forward. It works, but it's not precise enough. At one time I need to fast forward from 2:22 to 20:36 in around 30 seconds...  The fastest I can set the follow times is at 0.01s, which leads into around 40s needed.

3)

The macro programming itself is also a question of it's own... 

I need to set the right cue for all the digits, easy to do with goto cuelist/number enter. But on the master cue list I need to run the cue list from that point. Cue cuelist/number fader load enter, followed by a go_sequencerlist cuelist enter works here, but it will only works if the fader load part is in blue (what stands the blue text in macros for?), but not I select fader load from the parameter list. 

Go_sequencerlist I can't find at all at the parameter list, I need to press the go key to get the parameter into the macro programming and delete the unneeded parts afterwards. 

4)

I work in cue_only mode and I need to exclude the clock digits from every cue record manually.

Is there a way to exclude (several) fixtures from recording, like it's possible with sub's? 

We are now in the final rehearsals stage, when also the light programming happen.

My approach now is to have four background cue lists for every digit. The minutes will be the master list with 60s follow times, looping and at the end triggering a go on the next digit cue list via macro. 

I'm using macros to set the needed start time, change the follow times on the fly to speed the clock up and a macro to set the brightness via an inhibit sub.

This leads to several problems... 

1)

I wasn't aware that it's not possible to execute several macros in one cue via good old cue parts. Doesn't make sense to me... 

I could wrap all macros I need to start for several situations in another macro, but I fear it would be far too cluttered with all the different combinations needed... 

2)

Another problem is the fast forward. It works, but it's not precise enough. At one time I need to fast forward from 2:22 to 20:36 in around 30 seconds...  The fastest I can set the follow times is at 0.01s, which leads into around 40s needed.

3)

The macro programming itself is also a question of it's own... 

I need to set the right cue for all the digits, easy to do with goto cuelist/number enter. But on the master cue list I need to run the cue list from that point. Cue cuelist/number fader load enter, followed by a go_sequencerlist cuelist enter works here, but it will only works if the fader load part is in blue (what stands the blue text in macros for?), but not I select fader load from the parameter list. 

Go_sequencerlist I can't find at all at the parameter list, I need to press the go key to get the parameter into the macro programming and delete the unneeded parts afterwards. 

4)

I work in cue_only mode and I need to exclude the clock digits from every cue record manually.

Is there a way to exclude (several) fixtures from recording, like it's possible with sub's? 

sofad said:

Another problem is the fast forward. It works, but it's not precise enough. At one time I need to fast forward from 2:22 to 20:36 in around 30 seconds...  The fastest I can set the follow times is at 0.01s, which leads into around 40s needed.

You might consider just having a set of cues that represent your faster times.   DMX frame rate is only 44 per second, so you cant actually update the display 100 times a second anyway. 

So just have a 6 step cue list to do the 10 second digit increments with the last digit with the segments set to a not full brightness based on what percentage of 0 to 9 that segment would be on.