Helping programming theater

I'm having a hard time figuring what is the best way to program a theatrical style cuestack, even if jsut for one act or so- here is my dilema-

i want to keep tracking active, (not use cueonly) as it always ends up helping me, BUT i need to program the stack out of order.

say we program cue 50, 51, 52, then 60, 61, etc. I then want to record / insert cues at the beginning, taking advantage of tracking for the cues I write before those, but not affecting the ones I already wrote? I read something about blocking or not tracking forward, yet i can't seem to master making it work as i want everytime.

say i want to work off the values of cue 50? If say cue 50 had 5 studio color 575 at c50% and y75%, a position preset, and the beam shape where i wanted it then i wanted cue 40 to use some mac250s and include those 5 scolors as well but to have something like c0% m100% y0%. all without having to jump back and figure out where the beam shape was (without using a pallette) :aargh4: then i also don't want those values from the mac250s to move along to cues 60, 61.

i'm sure it's going to be something very simple and will surely help me once i find out that mystical bit i'm missing.

thanks.
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    First of all you'd be really suprised about how alike we look...

    So from the sounds of it this is a theatrical production. So if i were you, I'd go through your copy of the script and make little annotations in the collumn of where you want different cues. Then before you start programming record cue 1 through cue n with all values at 0 except your fade times. However many that would be then when you go into programming each sequence create your looks and record them until you need to go to the next sequence of cues and record all the values for the next cue at 0 before going to the next sequence, and that should track through until the next hard value. It is definitly more trickier than going straight through. Hope this helps... Out of curiosity which console are you running the show with?
    :hogsign:

    --Good Luck
    Zack Rusaw
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    First of all you'd be really suprised about how alike we look...

    So from the sounds of it this is a theatrical production. So if i were you, I'd go through your copy of the script and make little annotations in the collumn of where you want different cues. Then before you start programming record cue 1 through cue n with all values at 0 except your fade times. However many that would be then when you go into programming each sequence create your looks and record them until you need to go to the next sequence of cues and record all the values for the next cue at 0 before going to the next sequence, and that should track through until the next hard value. It is definitly more trickier than going straight through. Hope this helps... Out of curiosity which console are you running the show with?
    :hogsign:

    --Good Luck
    Zack Rusaw
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