activating chases while in a cue list
Posted: 05 Aug 2022, 08:47
My show has a cuelist that goes from 1-80, and then I have two chases programmed on separate handles.
At one point in the performance, when I'm on cue 50, I want to activate the first chase, then at the right time switch to the second chase, then when ready go back to the cuelist.
Last night while initially setting them up, I found I could press and hold on the Swop of the first chase, and it would play that, then I quickly release and jump over to pressing and holding Swop of the second chase, then when I released that it seemed to go back to the cue list.
Later on, though, I tried it again, and when I released the second Swop button it didn't resume the cuelist. I'm not entirely sure what it did, actually, and I don't have it with me again now to find out. In fact, I even had to reconnect the cuelist ("Cue" button, then click the cuelist handle), at which point it _seemed_ to jump to the first cue in the cuelist (but I may have been on the final cue in the cuelist when I Swopped the chases, so maybe that's what it does?).
Is this "Swop" approach a bad idea? Can I embed the chases into the cuelist instead?
At one point in the performance, when I'm on cue 50, I want to activate the first chase, then at the right time switch to the second chase, then when ready go back to the cuelist.
Last night while initially setting them up, I found I could press and hold on the Swop of the first chase, and it would play that, then I quickly release and jump over to pressing and holding Swop of the second chase, then when I released that it seemed to go back to the cue list.
Later on, though, I tried it again, and when I released the second Swop button it didn't resume the cuelist. I'm not entirely sure what it did, actually, and I don't have it with me again now to find out. In fact, I even had to reconnect the cuelist ("Cue" button, then click the cuelist handle), at which point it _seemed_ to jump to the first cue in the cuelist (but I may have been on the final cue in the cuelist when I Swopped the chases, so maybe that's what it does?).
Is this "Swop" approach a bad idea? Can I embed the chases into the cuelist instead?