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Clarity Operating Concepts & Terminology
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changes that have been made in the programmer since the previous cue in the cue-list was
recorded. These cues are suitable for playback in tracking mode.
If you intend to playback the cue-list in Cue only mode, then you should include any unchanged
information in the cue and not just the changes. In other word, you should record all grabbed
values, not just the touched values.
When you click the Record button, the Record Cue dialog box allows you to choose what will be
included in the cue. Setting “Playback” to either “Tracking” or “Cue Only” will automatically
select the appropriate option in the “Contents Options” pane.
42.8.1 Content Options
Exclude redundant state (changes only/tracking).
This option records cues that are suitable for tracking playback.
The recorded cue excludes any redundant values from the previous state. The cue only
contains the touched (altered since last recording) attribute values. When this cue is played
back in a cue-list set for tracking playback, the output will be the hard values of this new cue
plus the redundant values tracked through from previous cues.
Include unchanged information (non-tracking).
This option records cues that are suitable for cue only playback.
The recorded cue includes all grabbed values in the current programmer session, the entire
look in the programmer. When this cue is played back in a cue-list set for cue only playback,
the values in this cue will totally replace the output from the previous cue.
Blocking Cues
There are times when you are using tracking playback that you might want to prevent changes
from tracking through to the next cue. Typically this might be a change of scene in a theatrical
production or the next song in a musical performance. This is achieved by using a Block Cue in
the cue-list. Just like a cue recorded using the “Include unchanged information (non-tracking)”
option, it contains hard values for all attributes that have been touched (changed) since the
previous cue in the cue-list was recorded, but it also takes all of the tracked values that would
exist on the output of the playback (as if the cue-list had been played back) and converts them
into hard values then automatically adds them to the cue.
When a Block Cue exists in a cue list, subsequent edits that are made to previous steps in the
cue list will not track through and affect the Block Cue or the cues following it.
For example:
Here is a cue-list played back in Tracking mode. Cue 3 is a Block cue that contains hard values
for all attributes so it blocks any tracked values.
Tracking
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