Pausing effects

I'm not sure if this is already possible, so if it is please enlighten me!
I'd like to be able to pause effects that are running in a cuelist. Eg. Q1 makes all movers do a circle effect, Q2 pauses all fixtures, Q3 continues the effect.

I realise you could just record a position into Q2 that is somewhere in the path of the effect but this will mean the fixtures will jump (or fade depending on fade time) to that position when the Q is triggered and not just stop where they are. Equally if it was a colour effect or an iris effect you wouldn't know where in the cycle the effect will be in order to record a hard value for this.

Hope this makes sense!

Andy
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  • ahh, had forgotten that.. but i use this all the time.. in 98% of the times i want to stop an effect, it is only for a little moment.. maybe longest for a verse, etc.. so it's usually not a problem if it doesn't stop completely.. BTW, type in 0.01.. it shows 0, but its actually not.. it get rounded.. but it's much slower than 0.1(i'm guessing it is 0.01, and is 10 times slower than 0.1;))..at 0.01 it moves/fades/etc so slow it's usually not a problem..

    -if i where to stop an effect for a long time, it's another story though.. then it would be noticeable over time.
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  • ahh, had forgotten that.. but i use this all the time.. in 98% of the times i want to stop an effect, it is only for a little moment.. maybe longest for a verse, etc.. so it's usually not a problem if it doesn't stop completely.. BTW, type in 0.01.. it shows 0, but its actually not.. it get rounded.. but it's much slower than 0.1(i'm guessing it is 0.01, and is 10 times slower than 0.1;))..at 0.01 it moves/fades/etc so slow it's usually not a problem..

    -if i where to stop an effect for a long time, it's another story though.. then it would be noticeable over time.
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