<div><div dir="auto">I like to switch up my Que lists depending on what show I am doing. We have one show that is a bunch of one act plays, so I’ll give each show a block of 100 cues. (I.e show one is cues 100-199, show two is cues 200-299 ....). I do this because I know there won’t be more than 100 ques for a one act play. However, for just normal shows I go by ones and if stuff needs to be added in I just give it a point value. However, this tread just got me thinking that I could program effects that run without user input all as decimals so that the stage manager knows that they don’t need to call those. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The long of the short of this is there is no right way to program ques as long as the stage manger knows what’s up. However, try to avoid decimals on ques that need to be called out like the plague because stage managers hate it, and it tends to slow things down in the booth during a show.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jacob </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 18:20 Brian Munroe via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">All cues begin with the page number they are located on multiplied by 100.</span></font></blockquote></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">Then your SM is calling cue 5007? Seems like a mouthful. <br><br><div id="m_2712725887865794629AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iThingy. Please excuse any typos</div></div><div dir="auto"><div><br>On Feb 25, 2018, at 4:49 PM, Bruce via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>On Sunday, February 25, 2018 3:14:52 PM CST, Edward Hunter via Stagecraft wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>I've recently been ruminating on different systems for choosing cue numbers for light cues (thus proving I probably have too much free time on my hands).</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>What are other methods people like?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span> One method that I ran across that made me go 'duh, why didn't I think of that?' is this:</span><br><span></span><br><span> - All cues begin with the page number they are located on multiplied by 100.</span><br><span> - Each cue on a page is added to this. Sequentially or skipping 5s/10s</span><br><span></span><br><span> - So for example during the first number which begins on page 7 and ends on page 8, the light cues are 701 thru 833.</span><br><span></span><br><span> It does require that you know roughly what page number things are located on at the start [not usually a problem], but it instantly eliminates any searching for cue numbers by both stage manager, operator, and designer. Leaves lots of room for 'I forgot that' or 'we need to add this'</span><br><span></span><br><span>Just a thought.</span><br><span></span><br><span>:Bruce Cooper</span><br><span>--</span><br><span>Itinerant Stagehand anc Creature Mechanic</span><br><span></span><br><span>____________________________________________________________</span><br><span>For list information see <<a href="http://stagecraft.theprices.net/" target="_blank">http://stagecraft.theprices.net/</a>></span><br><span>Stagecraft mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">Stagecraft@theatrical.net</a></span><br><span><a href="http://theatrical.net/mailman/listinfo/stagecraft_theatrical.net" target="_blank">http://theatrical.net/mailman/listinfo/stagecraft_theatrical.net</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div>____________________________________________________________<br>
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