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Element 40 Cue help

I work at a tv station. we just got an Element 40. Aside from lights to light talent we also use the board to change set light colors.
So our different shows will have different colors. For example:
Morning show - yellow
Midday show - blue
Late show - white
Breaking News - red
I have the concept of submasters down and have put these light setups on their own submasters and we switch between them by bringing one fader down and the other one up.
i'd like to be able to have these setups on hot keys. So you'd hit the breaking news hot key and it would bring down the current show lights and bring up the breaking news lights, just by pressing one button.
I've read through and made Cues but I have some questions.
It seems like cues are designed to run in sequence. That isn't really how we'll be using them. They will be more like setups you select when you need them.
I've adjusted the timing for the cues but it seems that if you use Go To Cue out of sequence it ignores the set down time and uses a default of 5 seconds. Is there a way to either change the default Go To Cue time or to have it respect the up and down times you've set for the cue?
Also, is there a way to put those cues at hot keys so light setups can be accessed with the push of a button as opposed to using the Go To Cue button? The people that will be changing these have other responsibilities and having labeled buttons available at arms reach to turn on and off light setups would be ideal.

Sorry for the long post. Thanks in advance for any help.

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  • 0 in reply to RickR
    Should just point out that the article posted above was qutoing from the article " is about the paper versions of magic sheets – not the EOS versions".

    The reason I am picking up on that is magic sheets in EOS can really be used for two different things (or a mixture).

    A paper magic sheet is a picture of the rig and the EOS one can be that but it can also be a simple customised interface the software - think shortcut buttons.

    So in the specific case above you might just have a few buttons for the various looks you want on the set.

    But in a more general case you might do something like what I have on a magic sheet with the rig layout on the left and then a bunch of buttons on the right that are groups, colour pallets, focus pallets, macros to load cue lists on the master fader, Go button, Effects and stop buttons for each effect and big stop all button etc etc. So busking a show I never have to touch the keyboard.
  • 0 in reply to Mike A
    Thanks for the help guys. Cues, macros and magic sheets are exactly what I was looking for.
    I have a question with building magic sheets. I know you can link the color of an object to channel color or intensity but what if you aren't linking to a channel? what if you're linking to a macro? i'd like the border of the box to link to intensity so that the user can tell which lights are on and which are off (border would turn white because intensity is at 100%). Is there a better/different way to do this when you aren't linking your object to a channel?

    thanks!
  • 0 in reply to NewmanWISHTV

    One way that I have seen it done it is to make a slightly larger rectangle that sits behind the macro button, and assign the rectangle to the appropriate channel with intensity and color linked.

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