Expression 3 - ETC

Chapter 9
Multipart cues
A multipart cue consists of up to eight parts, each of which is essentially
an independent cue with its own channel levels and timing information.
You may set the upfade, downfade and wait times for each part of a
multipart cue. Create a cue as a multipart cue or record it first as a
standard, one-part cue and then split it later into parts.
Each part of a multipart cue may consist of any number of channels, but a
channel may only be included in one part of a multipart cue. If you record
a channel in a part and that channel is already included in another part, the
channel will be placed in the new part and be removed from the older part
automatically.
Wait times in multipart cues allow you to program fades that do not start
immediately when you play the multipart cue. When you press [Go] to
start a multipart cue, some parts may start immediately and others may
start up to 99:59 minutes later, depending on the assigned wait time. The
total duration of a multipart cue is equal to the combined wait and fade
times of the longest part.
When you display a multipart cue, channel levels that are higher than they
were in the previous cue are displayed in blue; channel levels that are
lower than they were in the previous cue are displayed in green; and
channel levels that are unchanged from the levels in the previous cue are
displayed in purple. When a part is selected, channel colors remain the
same in that part but channels in other parts are grayed.
Multipart cues can be recorded in either Stage or Blind mode. They are
stored like normal cues in the console’s memory and on disk.
This chapter includes the following sections:
• Recording a multipart cue
• Converting a standard cue to a multipart cue
• Wait times in multipart cues
• Editing a multipart cue
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