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    colin wood
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Adding an option to the "Wait" column

This feature request came to me after a DSM made an error and called a cue too early. Fixtures were still fading off that were used in the next cue in different positions. As the next cue had a 30 second fade in time you can imagine how ugly that looked as everything very slowly moved and flicked through gobos!

It got me thinking about having a new option for the Wait column, which would not allow the cue to be played until all marking had been completed.

So in my scenario above, when the operator was told to press GO too early, the current cue would continue and as fixtures reached zero they would mark, and only when everything was marked the next cue would then continue to run. This could be indicated with a flashing red box perhaps in the wait column.

I'd like to see the Goto command still be able to move past the cue, but not the GO command, unless everything is positioned first.

I think this could be a very useful option to help prevent seeing live moves at critical points in a performance.

Thoughts anyone?
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  • Thanks for the reply. I wasn't clear in my initial reply: I apologize.

    My suggestion was to add a *new* Q93 with only the channels/fixture requiring marking set to 0% intensity. Your "old" Q93 becomes Q93.2 (or Q93.5, etc) and is auto-followed from the *new* Q93. Your DSM still calls Q93, however this is now "just" a fade-out/marking cue with the designed cue auto-followed. In the event that Q93 is called early, the channels which require marking will still fade out, mark and then your designed cue auto-follows with everything properly marked. The only time this wouldn't work is if the board operator double taps the GO button when Q93 is called.

    I hope my explanation is a bit better.

    --L.
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  • Thanks for the reply. I wasn't clear in my initial reply: I apologize.

    My suggestion was to add a *new* Q93 with only the channels/fixture requiring marking set to 0% intensity. Your "old" Q93 becomes Q93.2 (or Q93.5, etc) and is auto-followed from the *new* Q93. Your DSM still calls Q93, however this is now "just" a fade-out/marking cue with the designed cue auto-followed. In the event that Q93 is called early, the channels which require marking will still fade out, mark and then your designed cue auto-follows with everything properly marked. The only time this wouldn't work is if the board operator double taps the GO button when Q93 is called.

    I hope my explanation is a bit better.

    --L.
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