The area in the bottom left hand side of the main screen is reserved to give you status of the first two cue lists in your show.
The top smaller bubble tells you what cue list the cues are fading on. The first line of text (in this case "4 - floor two" on A/B) shows the current cue that you are either sitting in or fading to. The lower text in gray shows the pending cue. The colored bars that are in between the text that move from left to right as cue are running are described below.
Depending on how the hardware is setup, the displays are subtly different. Each hardware configuration is described below.
The handles don't do anything; only the [GO] and [HALT/BACK] buttons work. When a Cue has equivalent Up and Down times, mid fade the display may look like this:
If there is a split fade time, the progress of the Up time through the fades is represented by the thicker yellow bar, whereas the Down fade is represented by the thinner black bar:
When the cue is complete, both bars will be all the way across the display:
The top yellow bar indicates the position of the left-hand fader which is the Playback Master. The higher the level, the more right the bar moves and the brighter the yellow bar gets. The bottom blue bar shows the progress of the cue if it is manually crossfaded by pulling the right-hand fader. The blue bar starts on the left and is very dark. It progressively gets brighter blue as it travels from left to right.
If you execute a cue that has identical Up and Down times using [GO], the fade will appear like this:
If you press [GO] on a cue that has split fade times, the progress of the Up time through the fades is represented by the thicker yellow bar, whereas the Down fade is represented by the thinner black bar:
When the cue completes, the display will revert to this:
If you are sitting in a cue, and pull down the left fader which is the Playback Master, channel levels in the Channel Grid will have broken arrows, hollow pipes and red hats:
... and the yellow bar in the playback bubble will fade as it tracks the position of the fader handle:
Note:
If you press [HALT] while a cue is in progress, you can manually complete the cue by pulling the handle.
You can reverse the direction of the current fade at any time before the handle reaches its end-point destination.
If you start a cue by pressing [GO], then, while the cue is in progress, you move the handle, that is equivalent to pressing [HALT] then manually completing the cue by pulling the handle.
If you move the handle to Halt a cue, but then decide you want the cue to complete in cue-time, you can simply press [GO]. You will have to park the handle at one end or another to make it active again.
If you Halt a cue for any reason and choose to complete it using the handle, all times will be re-scaled to the distance the handle has to travel, with the greatest time in the cue being measured from top to bottom and all others scaled to that. Wait times will be scaled too.
It does not matter if the handle is at the top or bottom when you start to use it. As long as it is at one end, it will function as a manual crossfader, moving you forward through the cue list.
If you want to manually crossfade backwards through the cue list, hold down [SHIFT] while pulling the handle. You will notice that the pending cue in gray at the bottom of the bubble will have a lower number than the current cue in black text up top:
When the faders are setup up as Split Crossfaders, the Left handle can manually control the progress of intensity attributes that are moving up (as well as all other moving light attributes) whereas the Right handle manually controls the progress of any fixtures who's intensity are going down in the next cue. At any time you can press [GO] to execute cues, or just move the handles. The position of the Left handle will be identified by the thick yellow bar and the position of the right handle marked by the thinner blue line:
If you execute a cue that has identical Up and Down times using [GO], the fade will appear like this:
If you press [GO] on a cue that has split fade times, the progress of the Up time through the fades is represented by the thicker yellow bar, whereas the Down fade is represented by the thinner black bar:
The bulleted Notes that appear above in the paragraph called Playback Master and Manual Crossfader apply here too.
When the console is set up in any of the Two-Scene modes, the Playback Bubble shows the level of the faders, left to right respectively. In Two-Scene Preset mode or when the Lookmaster mode is [NEGATIVE], then the right hand fade will report a value of 0% when the fader is at the top.
There are 12 additional Playback bubbles made visible by selecting Display|Playbacks either using the menu or [S5] Display softkey:
Any active cue lists will have a bi-color progress bar displayed between the active cue (black text) and the pending cue (gray text). The currently selected cue list's bubble will be down (1000s in the example above). To assign cue lists to playback pages, right click in on the first cue lists of the desired page in the Cue List Directory and check off Playback Page:
After checking off Playback Page, a horizontal line will appear above the cue list. This playback page uses the name of this cue list. You can add as many playback pages as needed and rearrange them using the Move Up and Move Down options in the list. Uncheck Playback Page to remove the page from the show file. To change between playback pages, click on the combo box to the left of the Playback 1 bubble and select from the list. You can also use the dedicated UP and DOWN arrow buttons to the left of Playback 1 Slider on the console.
Note:
Left Clicking on any Playback bubble is equivalent to doing a [GO].
A Right Click will present a list of options to choose from:
See Also:
Hardware Setup - Slider Panels