Tracking

Hi Kevin

I think that you are essentially missing a Block command out of your sequence. It's not necessarily this straight forward though.

Because you've gone to Cue Out and created your state, this command will Home the intensities (and parameters) of all your fixtures and dimmers, therefore not giving them a hard value (Home is essentially a null value). Without a hard value, they will not have a Move instruction, so will track the previous cue intensity values.

The ideal way to create a new cue between the two existing cues would be... (using your examples).

Be in Cue 10.

Select Active Out (to get a blackout, to start your new state from a clear stage). Or only remove the channels that you don't want.

Create your new look from the Blackout.

Record Cue 20... at this stage you can decide if you need to Record this as Cue Only (if you have a cue after Cue 20, that you don't want to be affected) or not. You can also decide if you want to Block this cue. My suggestion would be that, as you are clearly creating a very different look on stage, that you would want to Block this. This essentially creates a wall, giving all channels a Hard level, so that no matter what you adjust 'upstream' of this point, they will go to this point. 

There is the option to do an Intensity Block, which if you are using any multi-parameter fixtures, can be useful.

Does this help?

Warren.

Hi Kevin

I think that you are essentially missing a Block command out of your sequence. It's not necessarily this straight forward though.

Because you've gone to Cue Out and created your state, this command will Home the intensities (and parameters) of all your fixtures and dimmers, therefore not giving them a hard value (Home is essentially a null value). Without a hard value, they will not have a Move instruction, so will track the previous cue intensity values.

The ideal way to create a new cue between the two existing cues would be... (using your examples).

Be in Cue 10.

Select Active Out (to get a blackout, to start your new state from a clear stage). Or only remove the channels that you don't want.

Create your new look from the Blackout.

Record Cue 20... at this stage you can decide if you need to Record this as Cue Only (if you have a cue after Cue 20, that you don't want to be affected) or not. You can also decide if you want to Block this cue. My suggestion would be that, as you are clearly creating a very different look on stage, that you would want to Block this. This essentially creates a wall, giving all channels a Hard level, so that no matter what you adjust 'upstream' of this point, they will go to this point. 

There is the option to do an Intensity Block, which if you are using any multi-parameter fixtures, can be useful.

Does this help?

Warren.