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Hello all,

Next week I'll be programming a theatre show. I'm still in doubt if I'm going to use Titan or switch back to the old software to use the theatre stack. Could someone provide me with some pointers on how to easily program such a thing using Titan? I'm not that familiar with cue lists and I'm wondering on how my show layout would look like.

Do you guys program a show in single cue list, or do you use one for every song (it's a musical like show)? How can I setup the console for quickly setting up cues, fade times and crossfades between the different cue steps; should I use the VDU or does the console work better for this?

So in general: I'd like some best practices on this matter. Thanks!

No one?

I refrained from answering because I don't do theatre shows and rarely use cuelists.

But it might be worth pointing out the crucial difference between cuelists and chases is they are tracking.
Using following example:
cue 1 - red
cue 2 - position centre
cue 3 - yellow
If you fire cue 1 and then jump to cue 3 you will still get position centre even though it was not fired and the data was not included in cue 3.

Yeah, that's exactly what I want. But I'm still not sure if I should split up a show into multiple cue lists or use one big one for the entire show. A colleague of mine ended up doing the actual show, so I'll find out what he did and how good it worked.