dreamist
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Hey there!
I got a deal a while back on a Strand 300 Series board, which is a board that I had designed a few times on before but was not nearly as familiar with as I am an Express..
Of the various things I'm not terribly great at with the board, the one that has bitten me a couple times now is the somewhat confusing operation of the stop/back button on the console. By far, the most common miscue on this board (or any board, I think) is the tendency to double-tap the go button and start two cues at once. On an express, that would be no big deal, but on this board there seems to be no graceful fix...
The following is the usual sequence of events:
1) board op double taps the go button
2) board op immediately realizes the issue and hits STOP/BACK, thus freezing both of the running cue fades.
3) Board op hits STOP/BACK again to go back to the original cue
4) Board op hits GO to now catch up to where he is supposed to be, expecting that the next cue to be run will be the one following the cue that the console faded BACK to.
5) Instead, the console SKIPS the immediate next cue and again fades to the second cue forward..
i.e. if we have 3 cues:
L1 - scene 1
L2 - special
L3 - scene 2
and we are in L1 and going into L2, and the board op double-taps GO, thus starting both L2 and L3.. the board op then hits STOP/BACK, and then STOP/BACK again, re-fading back into L1. Board op hits GO again, and instead of fading from L1 to L2, the console fades from L1 to L3.
I realize that a fix for this would be to manually load the next cue onto the playback and then hit GO, but of course that takes time and dexterity.. most times this has bit me, it happens around a tightly organized set of cues.
Is there an elegant fix for this, or is this just one of those things that the Strand is worse at even though it's technically a more powerful board than an Express?
Thanks!
Joe
I got a deal a while back on a Strand 300 Series board, which is a board that I had designed a few times on before but was not nearly as familiar with as I am an Express..
Of the various things I'm not terribly great at with the board, the one that has bitten me a couple times now is the somewhat confusing operation of the stop/back button on the console. By far, the most common miscue on this board (or any board, I think) is the tendency to double-tap the go button and start two cues at once. On an express, that would be no big deal, but on this board there seems to be no graceful fix...
The following is the usual sequence of events:
1) board op double taps the go button
2) board op immediately realizes the issue and hits STOP/BACK, thus freezing both of the running cue fades.
3) Board op hits STOP/BACK again to go back to the original cue
4) Board op hits GO to now catch up to where he is supposed to be, expecting that the next cue to be run will be the one following the cue that the console faded BACK to.
5) Instead, the console SKIPS the immediate next cue and again fades to the second cue forward..
i.e. if we have 3 cues:
L1 - scene 1
L2 - special
L3 - scene 2
and we are in L1 and going into L2, and the board op double-taps GO, thus starting both L2 and L3.. the board op then hits STOP/BACK, and then STOP/BACK again, re-fading back into L1. Board op hits GO again, and instead of fading from L1 to L2, the console fades from L1 to L3.
I realize that a fix for this would be to manually load the next cue onto the playback and then hit GO, but of course that takes time and dexterity.. most times this has bit me, it happens around a tightly organized set of cues.
Is there an elegant fix for this, or is this just one of those things that the Strand is worse at even though it's technically a more powerful board than an Express?
Thanks!
Joe