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Re: Presetting Movers Before the Cue

MRourke — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:43:14 GMT

I am just starting to write cues, so I've enabled AutoMark before writing. Thanks for all the help!

Michael

Re: Presetting Movers Before the Cue

Steve Bailey — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:21:19 GMT

We had tried to enable AM in v1.7 back in the fall, after cues had been written. A call to tech support told me that it had to be enabled prior.

Nice to know it should work after...

Re: Presetting Movers Before the Cue

luke.delwiche — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:36:16 GMT

Hi Steve - unless I'm missing a trick, that shouldn't be needed. If you enable Automark, it will work on existing cues. I just tried it with some scrollers in an existing showfile and it certainly seemed to work...I now got an M flag in the cue before, it showed Q7 for their value, and holding data revealed them in the correct frame.

Unless this is new in 1.9, but I don't think so...

-luke-

Re: Presetting Movers Before the Cue

Steve Bailey — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:52:37 GMT

A BIG note that you MUST have Auto Mark enabled before you record any cues requiring it.

You cannot record a bunch of ML cues and think "Oh Jeez, I want to Auto Mark this stuff" and then toggle it on. Won't work

Re: Presetting Movers Before the Cue

luke.delwiche — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:33:15 GMT

Hi Michael-

This is the Automark function, which can be enabled in the Setup menu. With this enabled, the desk will look ahead 1 cue, and if a) the light is currently off and b) one or more NPs (color, focus, beam - or any combination of them) are have a move instruction, it will move them in the cue before.

You might want to eventually explore the Referenced Mark function of the desk as well - this allows you to determine where a light will mark - this mark remains dynamic, of course. In Cue 8, you tell the desk to mark a light in Cue 3. In Cue 3, the desk looks ahead to see where it should be, which allows you to freely change position/colour/gobo/etcetera without worrying about updating the cue where it presets.

-luke-

Presetting Movers Before the Cue

MRourke — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:41:21 GMT

I know there's a way, after a cue that fades out movers, for the Ion to "look ahead" at the next cue involving movers and preset all non-intensity parameters before the cue where the movers come up again. (This is to avoid having to write a separate cue that does that presetting.) How does that work?

Michael