So I have some conventional fixtures with color scrollers on them. I'm running step-based effects on them (just very simple intensity chases) and I'm recording the effects into Cues.
My problem (or rather just confusion) comes when I've recorded the effect into the cue but then I change the color of the scroller for that cue/effect and then try to mark those scrollers. The board won't mark them. I soon discovered that, as far as I could tell, it was because the channels didn't actually have intensity levels set, they were just running the effect. So it seems that currently, the ion will only mark channels that have actual hard value intensities recorded for them.
Is this correct? As far as I'm concerned this seems like its a bit of an inconvenience and perhaps it is just a missed feature/bug? I feel that if an intensity channel has an intensity effect running, the board should consider it at full or at some sort of recorded intensity value, so that I can then just simply mark the channels if I change the color/any other NIP's.
Of course, for now, the way around that is to either put the channels at 1% in the effect cue, or to just record the color scroller parameters into the previous cue manually. But either way, I just feel that it's still a bit of an inconvenience since marking is such a great and powerful feature, but then not being able to use it for intensity effects in cues.
Any thoughts, ideas, contributions, explanations? Am I just missing something completely obvious?
Thanks!