Any updates on "cue only" in QLab lighting?

[nizer]

I wanted to check if anyone has come up with a way to do cue only in QLab 5 lighting. I am currently having to go thru each cue and make sure every cue has every light at a level in it. This gets pretty daunting when you are in a different large venue with 100's of instruments every night.

Thanks.

[nizer]

Maybe this? recordAllToLatest

[Sam Kusnetz]

What is the problem you’re experiencing which led you to make sure every cue has a level for every light?

In any case, if you want cues to have levels for every light, use “New cue with all” in the Lughr Dashboard, not “New cue with changes.”

That will make a new cue with a recorded level for every parameter of every light.

Sam

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On Mar 1, 2023 at 11:54 PM -0500, nizer <ma...@nizer.com>, wrote:

I wanted to check if anyone has come up with a way to do cue only in QLab 5 lighting. I am currently having to go thru each cue and make sure every cue has every light at a level in it. This gets pretty daunting when you are in a different large venue with 100's of instruments every night.

Thanks.

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[nizer]

Thanks Sam. My issue is I have 20 cues. I go to.a new venue and add 40 dimmers and update my existing cues. I don't actually want a new cue I just want my cues that are already programmed to use these new dimmers. I get in to a mess with tracking at this point and need to go back and fire cues in "random order" to make sure house lights for example won't come on during the UV cue if I fire the cues out of sequence (which I do). This is why my thoughts of running this AppleScript would clean up those cues?

[nizer]

Also, now that I am really looking at this and not in the middle of crunch time I can also use the "record all....to latest" button in the Dashboard. My wish list stills has "tracking off" option in QLab 5. :-)

[Chris Ashworth]

Hi Mark,

If your new lights are part of a conceptual group of lights, then you could just add them to that group and your existing programming would already work without modifications.

In the very simplest example, let’s say you are adding instruments and you want to make sure they are included in your “blackout” cue.

If your blackout cue is simply the command:

all = home

It will immediately do the correct thing the moment you add your new lights at the new venue.

In a slightly more complicated example, if you are adding instruments that need to function as part of an existing set of lights, let’s say something like “front fills”, then again there, if you add the instruments to the group “front fills” then any cue which has a command to set front fills will already be programmed correctly, without any modifications.  

If your new lights need to have values that are unique to them, then they’d need to be programmed individually anyway, right?

-C

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