Control Booth
Clarity
Operator Manual
Page 158
24.4.5
Cue Notes
Notes can be added to any cue by clicking on the cue then double clicking on the cue’s
Notes
cell and entering your text.
24.5
SYNC FX
If a cue contains dynamic effects (created in the dynamics tab of the programmer or applied by
a dynamic preset or freeset), the “rate” of the effect can be kept “relative” to the performance
window’s metronome.
Right clicking
on a cue that contains dynamic effects and selecting
Sync FX
toggles whether
the effects are synchronized to the metronome or not.
If “Sync FX” is
not active
, the dynamic effect will run at its recorded rate.
If “Sync FX” is
active
, the effect will run at a rate that is normalized to a metronome
rate of 60BPM (Beats Per Minute).
Therefore, when “Sync FX” is active, the run rate of the effect will be equal to its recorded
rate divided by 60 then multiplied by the metronome rate.
Run rate = Recorded rate
X Metronome rate
60
For example,
Recorded Rate Metronome Rate Run Rate with Sync FX ON
60
60
60
30
60
30
60
120
120
30
120
60
60
30
30
30
30
15
24.6
MARK CUES (MOVE IN BLACK)
To insert a Mark cue in a cue-list, right click on the cue that needs the mark cue to precede it
and select
Insert mark cue
.
A Mark cue is a special type of cue that you can insert in a cue-list. Mark cues are also known
as “move in black” and are used to pre-position fixture attributes without their movements or
changes being seen on stage.
When you insert a Mark cue, Clarity looks at the previous cue and selects any fixtures that
have an intensity of zero. Then, using that fixture selection, it looks at the following cue and
copies all the attributes of those fixtures,
except intensity
, from the following cue and inserts
them into the new Mark cue which is placed between the two cues.
When the cue-list is played back and the cue prior to the mark cue finishes its fade, the Mark
cue is automatically executed. It will move all of the attributes (except intensity) to their
settings in the following cue. They therefore “move in black”. When the next cue is executed,
the fixtures fade up, but nothing else changes because all other attributes were pre-set by the
Mark cue. Mark cues have a default fade time of 0.5 seconds.
Sync FX
is active
(ticked).
~
indicates that the
Channel contains a
Dynamic Effect
