I guess to start I'll just say I'm new to lighting (relatively) and the ETC Ion is the first board I've ever used.
When writing cues for our shows we have a tendency to set one or two base scenes and a base black out. Every cue we re-record one of the base cues as the next cue. Possibly make some changes, then we would copy in the base black out cue. We would do this over and over again for hundreds of cues.
We often ran into problems where we would go back to a random cue edit it and unwanted things started happening, crazy things tracking through to certain cues, whats the best way to avoid this? Would recording things cue only help, or copying the cues instead of re-recording?
Also is that the most efficient method of writing all those cues, for example our last show had three base cues, one scene on stage left, one scene on stage right and a blackout. It would go in a pattern, Left, Blackout, Right, Blackout, Left, Blackout and so on and so forth, are their better ways to achieve things like this but faster and without possible tracking problems.
Is the method I'm using not suggested or not the common way to do it?
Thanks,
Kyle
