Steps insert as .1

Hi

How i work in DLight is:
* i record a show with lets say 54 steps.
* then i finish to make a separate Quelist that i normally print so i have it beside the computer.

But If the director change a scene lets say between scene 5 and 6 or want a step in between a scene,,,,, the problem is that all the numbers in the Quelist ail change an have to redo all the work again.

* this is why i really like to insert a .1 step so 4 becomes 4.1 and 5 will stay the same.

I think many people that work in theater and record shows would like this feather !!!

Is this possible to do?????

Thanks Vincent

Hello,

Yes it is possible, but you have to distinguish between 'STEPS' and 'CUES'. STEPS can only be added 'whole', but CUES can have any decimal part, so you can have Cue 3.14159 . CUES are then allocated to STEPS, and any CUE can go to any STEP.

so for example, you have:

STEP 0 CUE 0 TIME UP 0 TIME DOWN 0 ...
STEP 1 CUE 1 TIME UP 3 TIME DOWN 3 ...
STEP 2 CUE 2 TIME UP 3 TIME DOWN 3 ...
STEP 3 CUE 3 TIME UP 3 TIME DOWN 3 ...

Now your director says, 'I want another fade down before the final blackout in Cue 3...'

So - you make Cue 3 (STEP 3) 'Active' (Red Box around it). You type the keyboard shortcuts for 'INSERT', then 'STEP' (or 'Step' then 'Insert' if you use RPN mode), and you now have this :

STEP 0 CUE 0 TIME UP 0 TIME DOWN 0 ...
STEP 1 CUE 1 TIME UP 3 TIME DOWN 3 ...
STEP 2 CUE 2 TIME UP 3 TIME DOWN 3 ...
STEP 3 CUE 0 TIME UP 0 TIME DOWN 0 ... <- This is your new STEP, with NO CUE allocated
STEP 4 CUE 3 TIME UP 3 TIME DOWN 3 ... <- This was your old 'STEP 3' which was automatically re-numbered - but note - has kept its original CUE 3

You now create a new lighting state, and record it as, say, CUE 2.1. Then, with your new STEP 3 'active' (Red Box again) you LOAD (whatever your keyboard shortcut is) CUE 2.1 into STEP 3 and set your Fade, etc times

You should now have:

STEP 0 CUE 0 TIME UP 0 TIME DOWN 0 ...
STEP 1 CUE 1 TIME UP 3 TIME DOWN 3 ...
STEP 2 CUE 2 TIME UP 3 TIME DOWN 3 ...
STEP 3 CUE 2.1 TIME UP 3 TIME DOWN 3 ...
STEP 4 CUE 3 TIME UP 3 TIME DOWN 3 ...

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Hope this helps

Regards,

Colin

Hi guys,
thanx Colin for this answer!

another point is:
if you keep cue listing in an ascendent order, you can directly create cue that will be automatically inserted in the sequence.

for ex:
Step 1 -- Q 1
S2 -- Q2
S3 -- Q3
S4 -- Q4

if you adjust channel's level and type Q 3.14159 Record, your sequence will automatically be like that:
S1 -- Q1
S2 -- Q2
S3 -- Q3
S4 -- Q3.14159
S5 -- Q4

for these to work, the same Q should never appear twice in your sequence. If you have two identical cues, rename the second one.

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Hi,

Thanks for explaining this.
I was working all ready like this.
Its not the Que.,s that is my problem but the steps.

The steps nr is why i get confused with the que nr.
This wil give me a problem with the total overview, but if it is not possible to program .1 steps i have to learn to live with it.

For me are steps not necessary to see as a number, is there a way of making the steps not showing in the display

Vincent

vbs wrote: Hi,

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For me are steps not necessary to see as a number, is there a way of making the steps not showing in the display

Vincent

Yes please Nico... :whistle:

Regards,

Colin

Hi,

For me are steps not necessary to see as a number, is there a way of making the steps not showing in the display

hidding Step Numbers (as a setup option) is something I can work on.
it depends of how it's important for u because there's more work to do to eradicate bugs and start to publish moving heads/Leds interface....
if you can leave with that, it's a work that we can assign to ... later...

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