How do I use Strand Lighting Sunroutines to merge Cues?

[gallagtj]

I have been using this lighting borard for some time setting up Cue sequences in very simple scenarios and always end up with copying Cues that are the same or similar in many parts of a cue list.

What I would now like to do is to explore ways if usingthe Starnd Board to have a Cue for setting up variable lighting and then merge it with a Cue that has the fixed lighting, i.e. as part of the automation, use of Sub Routines etc. So that I only need to make changes in one place and can use the fixed cue many times over.

Can anybody point me in the right direction to look into this as at the moment I always end up copying the fixed cue into lots of cues and then adding in the variable items. If I then want to change the fixed items (usually scene lighting) this means I have to change the fixed items many times over in the Cue list. I am sure I need a Merge Cue function but don't know how.

Any ideas would be much appreciated to help me figure out a solution.

JohnG

[waynehoskins]

Sounds almost like what you need is to set it up with tracking. So if cue 1 has channels 1 through 3 at full, and cue 2 has 1 at half and 2 through 3 at full, what gets recorded as cue 2 is only 1@50 -- the other two channels didn't change, so they simply track through the cue. If later you decide that channel 3 really needed to be at 80 in all of that, change it in cue 1 and it will track through.

Perhaps. Maybe that's what you're looking for. Or are you looking more at infrastructure cues?

[RTDesigns]

what model of Strand board are you using? how many dimmers/preset/submasters, etc?

[gallagtj]

We have a strand Genius Pro 300. 64 channels of dimmers and DMX for colour chnage on 8 FOH lights. Runs under DOS on an old IBM PC

What I am trying to do is to set common Scene lighting and deal with practicals or new lights as variations to a common scene.

Track through seems a likely solution as long as the starting point of the scene tracks through to successive CUEs. Then I just need to deal with variants at successive Cues and just change teh scene at the initial source.

Regards

JohnG

[millamber]

John,

To my knowledge, there isn't a way to do exactly what you are asking. Since copying a cue makes a new self contained cue that is its own entity, updating the original cue will not update any copied cues.

My suggestion would be to load your "common scene" into the X1 playback and your practical cues or color changing cues into the X2 playback. That way you can have one initial source with your base lighting that you can update as needed running separately from any moving light or color changing cues.

Give it a try and see if it works.