had a operator call me with a issue, she had fixtures that were getting intensity values and she could not figure it out. she could manualy make them go out but as soon as the manual value was folowed by a cue, the fixtures come on. i told her on the phone to just cut those units from the show as they were not being used and i would look at it in the morning.
when i opened the show file i found the issue. there was a submaster that had a effect recorded to it but it was not mapped to a fadder. when i mapped it to a fadder, the fadder went up to represent its value and i could deal with it at that point. it just semed odd that the data would be there with out being atached to a fadder.