Strand 500 question

[AndrewGrant]

Hello,

 

I was just wandering what the darkish white colour means on a Strand 500 (in tracking) on the attribute screen. All of my attributes are in groups and every now and again they change colour to the darkish white. It doesn't appear that attributes are changing in the cues where they are this colour, most of the time they are either dark blue, white or light blue (which I understand) however I don't know what this dark white means.

 

Also, if you could explain a Soft Block to me as well I would be grateful.

 

Thanks,

 

Andrew

[Ynot]

There is a page in the manual that explains all the screen colours...

[gareth]

If, by 'dark white', you mean grey (:blink:), then in the context of the groups screen it indicates that that particular attribute is 'off' in the group - i.e. it has no recorded value.

 

And a soft block cue is one which contains hard values for everything, rather than just values for intensities and attributes which are changing (as you'd see in an ordinary move-fade). It can be useful to put a soft block at, for example, the start of a scene or the start of a song, to stop updates going any further than intended when you track forwards or backwards with them.

[AndrewGrant]

Thanks Gareth, they didn't look grey on my monitors but I assume it's the same thing.

Your post was alot more helpful that pointing me to a link without a reference of where to look, ecspecially considering the Strand manual is difficult to find your way around at the best of times.

 

Andrew

[Ynot]

Hi Andrew.

Sorry if you felt I was unhelpful directing you to the first logical place.

 

There are so many instances where questions can easily be answered by RTFM, and the OP's haven't even bothered to try. I do eprsonally try to do so, and if posting here always at least say that I've tried that avenue.

I do appreciate the 300/500 manual can be tricky to navigate, but having seen the page in question listing the colours (it's something I have asked myself before, and found, and printed for record at the thaetre) I believed it to be a reasonable reply.

 

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