Hmm... I'm not intimately familiar with the
Element, but I thought that Automark was a
system default setting. Let me ask you this - how many cues are there between when a
fixture fades out and when it needs to come back up in a different color? And how much time is that? The VL2500s are pretty quick, but no
fixture will be able to reset instantly. Obviously, in order for the light to come up in the correct color, it needs to actually
fade to black before coming back up.
Assuming it's not a simple programming error, my guess would be to look at
Mark Time. What version of the software are you running?
ETC just introduced the
Mark Time setting, which means that fixtures that are marking will ignore the
cue timing and
mark in that specified time (incidentally, I really don't like
Mark Time and I always leave it disabled, but I digress). If your
mark time is set to something like 4 seconds, and the time between the
fade out and
fade up
cue is less than that, this could be your problem. You can change this either by changing the
Mark Time to something shorter, or by overriding the
mark time on an individual basis by using discrete timing on that
channel.
This sounds like a pretty simple issue to resolve, but there's many different things it could be, and it's hard to tell without seeing it. If this still doesn't help, feel free to save the show file onto a USB drive and email it to me, and I can probably identify the problem. Good luck!
