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+ | ====== Cue Groups ====== | ||
+ | Quick Show 4.0 offers a new way to perform live shows. The idea is simple – you can Group Cues together to make it easier for you to find Cues of certain types or with certain properties eg. Beat Reactive Cues, Time Based Cues, or types eg. Liquid Skies, Strobing Cues, Fast Cues, Slow Cues etc. You can Group them by any feature or property you personally find useful to have grouped together. Then having created Groups of Cues, you can **run one cue in a Group**, much as you might run 1 Cue on a particular Page in **One Cue** mode. Groups are really a way of subdiving a Page into distinct areas of Cues with similar properties or features. It's as simple as that. But such a simple idea has multiple consequences that create a bigger picture. | ||
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+ | eg. In Quick Show, if using a Grid of 10x6(8x8) there are 60(64) possible Cues to choose from. However, if you Group the Cues together in 3 Groups, then you can only use 3 at any one time, as you can only run 1 Cue from any Group. At 1st glance, this looks very limiting, however, there' | ||
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+ | ===== Overview of Models ===== | ||
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+ | In 2004 Pangolin released **LivePRO**. LivePRO has 4 tracks. The Track is also a Cue Player. LivePRO has a Grid with Images and Effects. When you want to start a Cue, you need to activate Tracks that will play this Cue. It requires several clicks, or you need to assign a Cue to exact tracks in the Cues' properties. It means – you need to know the assignment of Cues, or need to select/ | ||
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+ | In 2008 Pangolin released **QuickShow**. QuickShow is based on a “trackless track” concept. There are no tracks as in LivePRO, so no need to select a Track. You click on a Cue and the software starts playback. This made the system simpler. It's easy to start with no limitation on the number of playing Cues. However, this advantage has a consequence. It is so easy to start a Cue, we need some logic on how to restrict numbers / stop Cues, otherwise, we will overload the Output. QuickShow introduced several modes: One Cue, One Per, Multi-Cue. Each mode has a set of “Limiters” located in the Dynamics Tab. These limit the maximum number of Cues per Grid, maximum per Zone, maximum per type, and so on. The downside - is there are multiple rules, so it's not always easy to tell which Cue will stop when you click next one. | ||
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+ | In 2014, **BEYOND** re-used the mode found in LivePRO with ProTracks. | ||
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+ | In 2016 **BEYOND** introduced the “DMX Server” model. Here, each Projection Zone has an embedded ProTrack with 3 options for it's DMX mapping. With some level of abstraction, | ||
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+ | In 2017, **BEYOND** and **QS** are now getting one more model – Cue Groups. | ||
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+ | ==== Basics ==== | ||
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+ | You can start **one Cue** in any one Group. As soon as you start a new Cue, the currently playing Cue stops. There is an exception from this rule – Flash mode. In Flash Mode, the life time of the Cue is defined by the release of the button. In the case of Toggle and Restart Modes, it needs an extra click to stop the Cue. | ||
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+ | Cues are grouped by default in a Grid Style format. So, you can Group by dividing the Page up by a number of columns, or rows. Visual placement matters and this makes for a natural, visual grouping. In addition to it's placement, each Group has it's own Color. It is a direct visual indicator of which Group the Cue is assigned to. | ||
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+ | You can assign a Cue to a Group in the Cues' Properties. It overwrites the default grouping based on it's location in the Grid. In practice, it means – if you do nothing the grouping uses the Cue's Grid location. However, if you want to build your Groups individually as you want, – easy, select the Cues and set the Group in the Cues' Properties. | ||
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+ | ===== Starting Group mode ===== | ||
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+ | To start Group mode click on the Groups button. The options for Groups are located in the context menu of the Groups button. | ||
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+ | Grouping is simple, but there are several important details: | ||
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+ | * The Groupings setting is a property of the Workspace File. It is not a Configuration Setting. | ||
+ | * A Cue always belongs to some Group. The default assignment is based on columns or rows, depending on the layout, by 1,2,3 or 4 rows/ | ||
+ | * A Cues' Properties can define the Group assignment, instead of the default assignment. You are free to choose any logic for the placement of Cues in the Grid. | ||
+ | * Also, you might want to assign toggle/ | ||
+ | * Groups are ignorant to all kinds of settings in the Dynamics Tab. Limiters are not applicable. Groups are designed to take a step away from this model. | ||
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+ | ===== Default Group Destination ===== | ||
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+ | Each Group may have a default Destination. If the Destination is empty, then the software uses the Cue setting. | ||
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+ | Here is the sequence of the Destination calculation. | ||
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+ | The software uses the Default Group destination. If it is empty, then it uses the Cues' Settings. If the Cues' Settings are empty, the Content Settings (Shapes, and so on). | ||
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+ | Technically, | ||
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