Timeline basics

[ollie]

Good day everyone

Iv come up against a bit of a problem while creating a timeline show. The show was originally intended to be a timecode show so created in timeline however the band do not utilise timecode so i have decided we need to create individual show pages of the cues for each song and then advance to next cue (like a cue list on something like an avolites desk) this way i can set all cues to flash and hold as long as the cue needs to be active.

Anyhow i thought it would be quite easy to select all the cues in the timeline, copy the cues and then paste into each page but this doesn't work as timeline doesn't seem to allow multiselect of cues into copy. Am i missing something here?

Im also open to a better way of doing this if anyone has any ideas

thanks ahead of any replies

 

[lasershow-creation]

There are several ways to do this. If I would be in a rush, my quick&dirty way would be:
Copy the show to multiple cues (just the complete show) and then use pangoscript for each cue. Just use the command „timelineSetPos 25“ for example to jump to 25sec of your show. Vice versa for your other cues… or use commands to jump to different marker points…
2.) Or, in case you‘ll have some boring evenings… you may adjust every single timeline of each cue and delete everything you don’t want to have in…
3.) Alternatively you may export parts of your show and save those cues again in your cue grid afterward… but this is somehow „old fashioned“

 

[ollie]

There are several ways to do this. If I would be in a rush, my quick&dirty way would be:
Copy the show to multiple cues (just the complete show) and then use pangoscript for each cue. Just use the command „timelineSetPos 25“ for example to jump to 25sec of your show. Vice versa for your other cues… or use commands to jump to different marker points…
2.) Or, in case you‘ll have some boring evenings… you may adjust every single timeline of each cue and delete everything you don’t want to have in…
3.) Alternatively you may export parts of your show and save those cues again in your cue grid afterward… but this is somehow „old fashioned“

Thankyou for your reply.

So i just need a go button style operation but its just so slow and cumbersome. Im in complete disbelief that a profram like beyond doesnt have a typical cue list style drag and drop option like every lighting console known to man, thats a huge oversight in my opinion. It would be so simple to juts drag cues into a list, name them and then have a go button.

Unless im missing something its completely overcomplicated and quite honestly terrible workflow to have to keep adding markers into a timeline?

 

[ollie]

I delved a little deeper and managed to create a Pango script that works like a cue-list would. Just seems very odd that a typical cue list has not been implemented from the get go but it does work as described.

Im finding so many oddities to be honest with beyond over quick show. Simple things like moving multiple cues at once doesn't seem to work like it used too. By this i mean in quickshow you would press shift/control and select the cues needing moving, then select cut, then select a lower box and paste the cue across and it would have a paste multiple cues option and bobs ya uncle. beyond doesnt seem to have this and i have to use copy instead then delete the old row.

Its very likely that im just new to beyond and have alot to learn but just seems strange is all that it wouldnt work like quickshow

thanks anyhow and any tips and tricks for pango script would be greatly appreciated