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Originally Posted by derekleffew
Tell us how you really feel Icewolf08, no need to be guarded around us. I bet you'd hate having to "clear the programmer." |
Ok, starting this
poll because I really want to know why people like their
Cue-Only consoles. And I felt like a
tracking rant.
Frankly, I think that if everyone took 5 minutes to learn it they could understand tracking, and they would probably never go back. Especially with the rise of MLs in many venues, it seems that living in Cue-Only land would just make your like harder. This is the biggest reason that I don't understand consoles like the Congo. RPN i could deal with, but why make a console designed for controlling MLs a Cue-Only native console?
One of the designer's that I work with insists on using Cue-only mode for his shows. Then I have to take time and go back through the show to lean up all the wacky ML live moves because they want to go back to home instead of tracking. So as the fixture fades out it is moving all over. It is a waste of time to have to fix things like that.
Or then there are the times when you want to change something, maybe the director wants the
cyc brighter in the first scene. So on the tracking
desk you just hit: chan# [@] level [ENTER] [UPDATE] [CUE] 2 [ENTER] and the entire first scene is changed, as opposed to going through ever cue on the cue-only desk and changing the level 15 times.
So, I want to know what you all think and why.