Blue Box 

The lower left pane of the main window displays the currently selected Cue List. The arrow keys will always move the Blue Box between cells. It is with this Blue Box that you will do most of the cue management, including labeling cues, change cue properties such as times, inserting follow commands, adding macros, moving and deleting cues and cue parts.

See Also:

Timing

Part Cues

Independent Timing

Labeling a Cue

1. Using the [ARROW KEYS] move the Blue Box to the cell you want to change.

2. Press the [EDIT] button to put the Blue Box into edit mode.

Note:

The QWERTY equivalent of [EDIT] is [INSERT]

3. Type in a new value to completely replace the text highlighted in blue.

Notes:

• After you press [EDIT] and the whole text gets highlighted , but you only want to change one word, press the left Arrow Key to unhighlight the cell and allow you to move freely around. Delete characters with [BACKSPACE].

• If you want to make the text BOLD, prepend the label with the exclamation point "!"

• If you want the text to appear ITALICIZED, prepend the label with the forward slash "/"

• All "Button" cues or cues with zero time will appear BOLD automatically in the "Next" column of the Cue List Directory just to let you know something dramatic is going to happen when you hit [GO]

4. When you are finished, press [ENTER] to close the edit box.

Tips:

To quickly label a bunch of cues, move the Blue Box to the first cell, press [EDIT], type in a new label, but rather than pressing [ENTER], press the Down Arrow Key to move you to the next cell. The cell will automatically be open for editing. You may want to do this exclusively from the QWERTY keyboard using [INSERT] in place of [EDIT].

Changing a Cue's Time

The Cue List has multiple columns for time including Cue Time (which all attributes will use unless specified), Down Time, Position Time, Color Time, Gobo Time, Lens Time, Special Time and SMPTE Time. The SMPTE Time does not relate to the fade, but rather to when the cue should be executed.

1. Using the [ARROW KEYS] move the Blue Box to the time column you want to change.

2. Press the [EDIT] button to put the Blue Box into edit mode.

Note:

The QWERTY equivalent of [EDIT] is [INSERT]

3. Either type in a new value to completely replace the text highlighted in blue or use the Wheel to roll the values up or down. Each detent on the wheel will change the value, up or down, by one second. Holding down [SHIFT] will change the value by 0.1 of a second. (For SMPTE, it is 1 second or 1 frame.)

Note:

• If you are editing a Wait/Fade time, the entire cell is highlighted in blue. Directly typing a new value will replace both values. If you just want to change the Wait Time, press [FULL] or [HOME] to take you to the front of the line (highlighting only the Wait time). If you want to change the Fade Time, press [OUT] or [END] likewise.

• To enter times in the HH:MM:SS format, use two dots (i.e., “ .. ”) to make the colon. This format extends from days (DD) to fractions of a second or frames (FF) in SMPTE time (i.e., DD:HH:MM:SS.FF). Note that frames or fractions of a second appear after a single decimal point.

4. When you are finished, press [ENTER] to close the edit box.

Tips:

To quickly edit numbers, move the Blue Box to the first cell, press [EDIT], type in a new number, but rather than pressing [ENTER], press an Arrow Key to move you to the next cell. The cell will automatically be open for editing.

Note:

The Blue Box will follow the Green Light (cue running indicator) if the Autoscroll Cue List pin is out.

Changing Multiple Cells to the Same Label or Time

1. Move the Blue Box to the first cell you want to change using the arrow keys.

2. Hold down [SHIFT]

3. Continue to press the [DOWN ARROW] or [UP ARROW] to increase the size of the Blue Box to highlight all wanted cells

4. Let go of [SHIFT]

5. Press [EDIT] on the console or [INSERT] on the QWERTY keyboard and type in a new value to completely replace the text highlighted.

6. When you are finished, press [ENTER] to close the edit box.

Changing Multiple Cells' Values Relative to Each Other.

1. Move the Blue Box to the first cell you want to change using the arrow keys.

2. Hold down [SHIFT]

3. Continue to press the [DOWN ARROW] or [UP ARROW] to increase the size of the Blue Box to highlight all wanted cells.

4. Let go of [SHIFT]

5. Press [EDIT] on the console or [INSERT] on the QWERTY keyboard.

6. An edit box will open on the last cell you selected. Roll the [WHEEL] to change its value up or down.

7. Press [ENTER] to close the edit box. Note how all values changed up or down relative to the amount of the change you made to the open cell.

Tip:

Holding down [SHIFT] while rolling the [WHEEL] changes numeric values by 0.1. It will change SMPTE times by 1 frame.

Changing a Cue's Action

1. Move the Blue Box to the Action column of the cue where you want to add a link, follow or macro. You may also want to adjust the Move In Black parameters.

2. Press [EDIT] on the console or [INSERT] on the QWERTY keyboard.

3. The Cue Action dialog box will open (see Cue Properties):

4. Make any changes as necessary and choose OK.

This (very busy) cue has a Link to Cue 4, a follow in 2 seconds, a macro and MIB is suppressed.

Adding a Cue Profile

1. Using the [ARROW KEYS] move the Blue Box to the time column you want to add the profile.

2. Press the [EDIT]button to put the Blue Box into edit mode.

3. Enter a new time if necessary and/or press the appropriate softkey to add a profile to the fade:

4. The edit box will close and the fade time along with a profile icon will be displayed in the cue list:

Note:

• While the edit box is open, you can press [S12] to open the Cue List Properties dialog box.

• See the topic called Profiles for images of what each profile looks like.

Independent Timing

If you want to adjust the time of particular attributes independent of the time specified in the cue, press [SHIFT] [EDIT] to change the Fixture and Attribute grid to the display. See the topic called Independent Timing to see how to record or update a cue using Independent Timing. Press [SHIFT] [EDIT] again to return to the display.

Clearing Independent Timing

If some of the fixtures recorded in the cue are using Independent Timing, the Cue Time field will have a clock icon in it:

If you move the Blue Box to this field and press [EDIT], the Cue Profiles softkeys (see above) are displayed. If you want to remove all Independent Timing in the cue, press [S11]. If you do, a confirmation dialog box will be displayed:

If you are sure you want to have all fixtures follow the times as set out in the Cue List columns, press [ENTER]. If you want to cancel the operation, press [REL].

Note:

The [S11-Clear Ind. Time] softkey is only visible when you are editing the Cue Time field in the cue list.

Asserting or Going to a Cue

If you move the blue box to the first column of the cue list, positioning it over the Cue List Pointer, and press [EDIT], you will assert the desired cue.