ColorsSource consoles offer three different types of record targets:
Playback Memories, Playback Sequences, and Cues.
We're going to make some Cues now.
Recording to a Cue simply means that you're recording to a stage look
that is given a number and lives within a stacked list of looks.
This means that you can advance through the
progress of your show using a go button.
The Cue will also be recorded with timing information
that allows you to set how Cue number 1
should fade into Cue number 2.
And how 2 fades into 3 and so on and so forth.
This is called crossfade timing.
Simply stated if I go into {Channel} mode and turn on a light
and {Record}.
Now I have to use the menu and hit {Cue}.
The console switches to my Cue List mode
and I'll see all of the cues that I've currently got recorded.
Right now this is the first one
so I'll type this in
and just name it something we’ll recognize.
“First”.
It's got to default 3 second Fade time, at this point.
The Wait time
is used to have one cue trigger the next cue to play automatically.
We don't need that right now, we’ll just leave that alone.
When I'm happy with my look, when I'm happy with the information I have typed in here,
I press the {Store} key
and now that has been stored.
Now I can write the next Cue
which in this case I'll just bring up the next light.
{Record} {Cue}
The console automatically offers me the next
available whole Cue number.
So Cue 2 is being offered.
I can give it a name if I wish.
“Second”.
Change the times and so on so forth till I'm happy,
and hit {Store}.
And before I do that I just want to make a note about what's being displayed on
my first cue now for content.
It's indicating to me that there is intensity and color
stored in this fixture and other parameter information
with the little cone of light there because this fixture has a strobe function.
So I have parameter data, and I have intensity, and color information stored in the first Cue.
We’ll {Store} this guy and just very quickly write a third one.
And you'll see how that second step has also been updated with intensity, color,
and other parameters.
So, “Third” ,and {Store} .
So how do I play my cues back?
I can very quickly just start executing Cues
by pressing the {Go} button.
And as I'm fading, up here at the top,
I can see in very small text that we're currently in the second Cue
and the third Cue is primed to fade in when I hit the {Go} button.
And then we go into the third Cue.
If I want to see more information about my cues
I can open up my Cue List display.
I can get to the Cue List from my {Controls} menu.
Oftentimes the Cue List is offered as a button on the bottom of the screen.
And here I can see all that information.
Timing information, the label, the number, etc,
of the Cue List as I go forward.
So this might be a little bit easier to read in many cases.
The names that you give the Cues could also be more descriptive.
“Scene 1”, “Act 3”, “Kitchen Day”.
Whatever it is that you'd like to have appear there to help you
know where you are in your show.
Cues are on stage right now because the Cues Master Fader is up.
When the Cues Master Fader is down no light will be put out by your Cue List.
So be careful of those Master Faders.
You'll notice that the Cues Master is lit up in gold
when the cues are being played back, when they're contributing to the stage look.
There are some additional controls.
The {Pause} key.
The {Back} key.
{Back} key lets me move backwards through my list.
The {Pause} key lets me stop a crossfade mid-stream.
This is in case you accidentally hit {Go} too quickly.
And then you can hit {Go} again and the fade will complete.
You can also jump around in a Cue list using the {More} functions
{Go To 0} gets you back to the top of your show.
{Go To Cue} {number} allows you to set a specific target
and crossfade directly to that from wherever you happen to be.