@gbirdsall DANCE SHOWS!! (Arrrrgh!!) Once upon a time in a previous life I was the IA Head LX in 750 theatre with an LP90 for its LX board. Spring time arrived along with dance season and all the husbands that are voluntold to handle tech. One year I found myself programming for a fellow who insisted he had all of his cues figured out in advance to SAVE US TIME. After a few hours of dutifully programming precisely as instructed we had four or five hundred cues in the board and he was less than half way down his clipboard of paper. He was programming chases as never ending sequences of cues, NOT CHASES but series of individual cues. He absolutely swore that we needed to program his way since he had it all fully figured out to save time. Oh how I wanted to show him how quickly we could've programmed chases as chases with a variety of steps and a variety of chase directions and types and how effortlessly we could've changed tempos. He and his wife were paying my wages, my overtime wages.One thing I would suggest from when I worked in a theatre as the MLO and worked with guest designers.
Have one program and one call the looks they want, 1-4 at 50 etc, without their plot in front of them. The amount of time I have had wasted by designers that didn't know what they had in their plot was amazing to me. It would also teach them the delicate art of making changes without frustrating the programmer. While I usually didn't mind a bit of OT programming I would usually get frustrated when a 12 hour day turned into a 20 hour day programming, with extremely minute changes to a dance show.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard