Mark Earliest

The {Earliest} command can be used with [Mark] to mark the channel into the cue after the last intensity moved from a nonzero level to 0. The mark is stored and behaves exactly as if you had typed the cue number instead of {Earliest}. This works in blind, or in live if you record afterwards.

For example, cue 2 moves the intensity for channel 1 to 0, cues 3 thru 4 have no intensity for channel 1, and cue 5 has the intensity move to full. From cue 5:

[1] [Mark] {Earliest} [Enter] - marks cue 3 to cue 5. This works the same as [1] [Mark] [Cue] [3] [Enter].

Note: [Mark] {Earliest} will mark through block cues or blocked intensity moves of 0, until it finds the earliest intensity move to 0. If the cue immediately before the cue being marked is the earliest intensity move to 0, it will mark in that cue.

{Earliest M} will mark to the earliest cue that already has a mark flag. If a mark cue doesn't exist, {Earliest M} will behave like {Earliest} and will mark to the earliest possible cue.

Note: {Emergency Mark} can be used to automatically set a mark flag if you had not previously done so. If using {Earliest M} and no cue with a mark flag has already been set, {Emergency Mark} will set a mark flag. See Record Defaults.