Random geeky post alert.
For some time I've been wondering what the most efficient way of programming an automated rig check is. I'd love to know how other people do it.
I used to keep the rig check at the end of the main cue list and have a bunch of cues that triggered effects which ran through each type of scroll / moving light etc. The eminent Mr Simmons suggested a way of doing it on separate cue lists, one per type of light etc. Which meant never running another cue list through the main cue list, but then this can involve lots of linking in and out of the main cue list etc. Also, the effects were great but it was hard to pause if something was wrong, and go back etc etc.
Would like to know if there are any rep houses out there who do any of it in an automated fashion, rather than just manually because once you've refocused everything for that particular show, you know everything works anyway, right?
How do you do yours please?
Jane
