Snapshot problem

Sammy,

When you record a snapshot the CIA populates with tiles allowing you to specify which aspects you would like to include. You *can* include just "Monitors" which is what you are looking for. Check out page 284 in the manual for more detail about how snapshots work.

-M

Sam,

I'm guessing you probably got bitten by the same thing as I did a few years ago - using a snapshot triggered by a cue to do a simple Fader Page change or something like that?

And then subsequently ending up loading whichever cue was pending in the main playback when you recorded the snaphot.

Although this can be potentially disastrous if you are not aware of it, it is actually a feature. More useful for our users in the 'Live Event' (excuse the sweeping generalisation!) sector who are using multiple cuelists heavily than for traditional single cuelist environments.

A good way to avoid running into this 'problem' is to temporarily release the cuelist out of the main playback whilst you record your fader snapshots.

I have a vague memory of a conversation with Anne regarding more granularity in snapshots, but I'll leave her to comment on if/when that might happen.

Graham

Sam, I believe I misread your post, apologies. Regarding "Fader Snapshots", until we get more granularity (which is definitely OTL), be wary of these as they will record the state of all 300 faders. Even if you release all of your cue lists as Graham mentioned, if you alter any of your fader assignments, such as assigning a new sub to a fader, firing that snapshot will remove that new assignment, which is rarely the desired effect...

If you are trying to just change fader pages, I'd recommend writing a macro to do so.

-M

Hi Graham.

You are completely right. I had recorded faders into the snapshot as I liked going to a blank fader page at the top of the show. Just so I wouldn't accidentally press one of the fader buttons or rig check cue list by accident.

All fixed now though.

It would be great to have better control over snapshot. I use them all the time but this has been the first time I've used faders recorded within them. I would certainly love the ability to have snapshots as a purely visual look function. Having control over sub levels and cue playback is something Id like to turn off.

Thanks for your response

I'm not at the desk now but how do I change faders without learning the macro. I tried fader page 2 enter.

Hijacking the snapshot thread a little bit:

Trigging a snapshot will alter the channel display (flexi state, for instance), but if you have happened to roll the channel display down, to show channels 200 - 400 (instead of 1 through 200) by accident (darn mouse wheel), the snapshot will NOT restore to show channel 1 - 200.

Food for thought.

Andrew Riter

Chan Centre.

You have to learn the macro (as it's a Press and Release). Once you've learned it, you can copy the macro and edit the #. I have 30 macros that travel with my showfile (one for each page), so i just copy them to another macro and rename them as necessary.

-M

Your right Andrew, there a few things like that.

It also doesn't record the size of your tombstones, so you can't record a 'I forgot my glasses' snapshot, which makes the tombstones massive.