No GO until cue complete

Question

Quick one hopefully: 
 Have a cue which is dependent on an actor&rsquo;s actions which changes because it&rsquo;s largely improv, and I have no way of making them do it the same every time . To explain further: 
 Cue 1 has a gen wash and blue backlight 
 Cue 2 is gen wash and orange backlight 
 Cue 3 is spot with red backlight 
 The colour path transition between Cue 1 and 2 is really important, but Cue 3 is a snap to spot with backlight. So what I would like to do is still be able to snap to the spot once the cue is given, but to allow the blue - orange transition to carry on until complete and then go into red if we&rsquo;ve moved to Cue 3 before it&rsquo;s completed. How can I achieve this? 
 I hope what I&rsquo;m after makes sense!

sofad · Answer

what about this: 
 
 in cue 3 only add the spot with the right timing 
 
 record an extra cue in a second cuelist with only the red backlight in it. 
 set the fader next to your go button to be the control for this second cue list, so you&acute;ll have the go button for the second cue list next to your normal go button. 
 the you can decide to run the spot and the red backlight together by pressing both go buttons, or independend.

Mike A · Answer

Its a little complex but if you make cue 2 fire a cue in another cue list say 2/2 and on that cue set the follow time to match your cue 2 timing. 
 That means in the that cue list the following cue 2/3 can then have an exec of a macro on it that will fire when your original cue 2 transition is complete. Let says this is macro 2 and on cue 3 on the main list make it fire macro 3. 
 So you now have one macro that fires on the transition completion of cue 2 and another that fires on the GO into cue 3 
 The next bit sounds complicated but isn't really. 
 You can then setup macro 2 to copy macro 4 to macro 3 having initially setup macro 3 to copy macro 4 to macro 2. 
 What that means is if cue 2 has completed its transition before they hit GO then when they GO it will run macro 4 but if they hit go before cue 2 completes then when 2's transition completes macro 4 will run. 
 So then you can make macro 4 do the snap to red etc. 
 On cue 1 you would fire a macro that arms all of this ie sets up the initial conditions of macro 2 and macro 3 so they do the copies described above (you'd do that by that macro copying in say macro 5 to macro 2 and 6 to macro 3)

No GO until cue complete

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