Apologies for dragging this out of the archives, but I thought I should share and maybe there's a lesson to be found.
I cued a show for the first time on my
Ion, which wasn't fun, only due to the malfunctioning interface between the chair and the
console, as I discovered that the Undo feature is by far the best feature I have found on any
console I've used to date.
I'm getting rid of un-used channels/subs never focused (and being anally retentive - I HAD to clean up, even though it's one run of a 1 hr. show) and I'm typing " Delete Subs 10-15" and missing the Sub
button, so now the
console thinks I'm deleting cues and (as per the malfunction mentioned above) I press Enter the 2nd time on the "Please Confirm" query.
Oops. Well more like a BIG OOPS, as I look up to make sure the SM isn't around.
There were only 14 cues in the show, this being a one hr. kids show of Peter and the Wolf, so suddenly the show was shorter, or never coming out of
Cue 9, which was a
Blackout.
Thru some quickly forming tears, I'm chanting "There's an Undo
button around here somewhere, there's an Undo
button somwhere...." and sure enough.
The
button needs a sub label called "SYA" as a variation of CYA.
I also learned that my other favorite function (not really a
button) is programing in
Cue Only, not
Track. Best done this way when the SM sets all the
Preset cues all at the same time as "1, 10 & 14", then the bright cues as 2, 5, 13,
etc.... then a couple of
pull down cues, then some blackouts,
etc... and
Track is now my major issue and after running
thru the cues (the SM was VERY patient with me) and finding mush, I get to do most of it all again, this time in
Cue Only.
Lessons learned.
Steve Bailey
Brooklyn College