1. A piece of lighting paperwork that documents lighting instrument levels / intensities, cues, and other information in order to aid in programming the production in another light board. Typically used in the touring world where a lighting director or designer transfers a design from one venue to another. Originally dating to the era of piano boards, the tracking sheet has served different generations in different ways. In its earliest iteration it was the document at the production table, kept by an assistant, that documented dimmer levels across the board, so to speak, for each cue; a vital task, in that road board operators only documented the moves in cues, not individual dimmer levels in each cue. This left the person with the tracking sheets as the only one in the room who could get you from a cold start directly to Cue 43. In more recent times, the advent of memory boards and their early problems with reliability and volatile storage, made live table tracking an essential backup parachute to escape from a potential system crash or memory dump. At the height of the early computer era, the form and style of ones tracking paperwork might have received the same level of attention some current designers lavish on magic sheets.
2. A specific display of many memory lighting consoles that enables the user to see the status of a single channel or parameter in every cue. Some resemble a spreadsheet display, with channels across the top in columns and cues down the side in rows. Others (Express/ion) show a single channel and the cues that contain it.
3. A listing of each stagehand's cue track, detailing every move and action he/she makes during a performance. Might also be called a "cue track sheet" or "cue sheet."
2. A specific display of many memory lighting consoles that enables the user to see the status of a single channel or parameter in every cue. Some resemble a spreadsheet display, with channels across the top in columns and cues down the side in rows. Others (Express/ion) show a single channel and the cues that contain it.
3. A listing of each stagehand's cue track, detailing every move and action he/she makes during a performance. Might also be called a "cue track sheet" or "cue sheet."
