Inserting a follow

Besides typing a time, inserting a follow is probably the most used input for the wait column.
It currently involves several actions to insert a follow (as far as I know). You have to select the cell, press [set] and the select follow on the touch screen or use the mouse.
I was wondering if there could be a short cut for inserting a follow.

I was thinking about using the PIG button for that. So when you hold down pig and click on the cell in the wait column a follow is inserted.

Does anybody else have some input on that subject?

Regards,

Gertjan Houben
Moving Lights Support
gertjan@showside.com

0 erock over 17 years ago

I think that's a great idea, I totally agree that 75% of the time atleast for me I'm just putting a follow in that column. Saving some button pushes there would be great.
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0 bradpepe - Former HES Forum Member over 17 years ago

Gertjan,

I like the idea... anything to save keystrokes. I have logged this as item #9640.

thanks,
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0 sourcechild - Former HES Forum Member over 17 years ago

[CENTER]:11: :11: :11: :11: :11: :11: :11: :11: :11: :11: :11: :11: :11: :11: :11: :11:

OMG!!![/CENTER]

Please don't tell me that I'm the only one in the world who knows that if you just press set, type a time, and hit enter, you're done?

Please don't tell me this thread is worthy of a :rtfm: emoticon
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0 teerickson - Former HES Forum Member over 17 years ago

Todd,

The discussion here relates to setting the Follow option, not just setting a Wait time. To set a cue to follow the previous cue, you need to select the wait column in the cuelist window, press Set, and then click the Follow button on the popup menu.

Gertjan has provided a suggestion that would allow a much easier way to set the Follow option, since this is commonly used.
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0 sourcechild - Former HES Forum Member over 17 years ago

:footinmouth: Yep! I put my foot in my mouth.
Okay, I'll read better next time.
I guess the console hopping is getting to me. I so rarely use follow and just enter wait times that I don't think about it.
It would also be nice though it the follow indicated the wait time it has. What I mean by this is that when I fan the delays of a dozen movers and then fan the fade times, I end up with cues that have a mix and match of IPCB parameters and I don't exactly have the patience to count out the cue length. Of course when I look in the list tab above the fader, the time is noted on the "next" cue but when I just open a list that is not on a fader, I loose that. Perhaps the solution then would be a way to have a comment that showed the cue length next to the cue.
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0 rautasami over 17 years ago

Hmm...any idea using this kind of syntax

Cue # PIG+Time Enter = Follow
Cue # PIG+Time # Enter = Follow + #
Cue # PIG+Time Time Enter = Manual
Cue # PIG+Time Time # = Wait #

No idea for timecode....

Also I would suggest Cue Time # Enter to modify current cue...but I think someone has suggested that already, can't remember...
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