Two cue stacks on one GO button?

[iDan]

Hi,

I'd like to achieve the following setup but looking for advice on how I would set up the desk (ETC ION) to do it...

- GO on the ion simultaneously fires cue 1 on live output but also cue 2 on capture, so capture acts as a preview of the next cue, whenever a live cue is fired.

I'm imagining that I'd need a PC with capture and EOS nomad installed, with nomad running an identical cue stack as the ion but starting one cue ahead. Then I'd need the ion to tell the GO button to act on both cue stacks. I'm not sure if this can be done but I imagine OSC might be used?

The reason for wanting to do this is to make things more predictable for callers/oppers who come in having not seen the show or the script prior to a shift. Of course, the simple solution is just to manually press go on nomad separately to the ion to display the next cue, but boy it would be cool to have it auto increment. 

 

TIA

[AndrewE]

You could write a macro that presses go on a second playback (the one with your Capture cuelist). Easiest way to do this is map the playback to a fader, then learn in a new macro that just has you pressing the go button under that fader. Then apply that macro to every cue in your main cuelist - [Cue] 1 [thru] 100 {Execute} [Macro] 1 [Enter]. As long as both playbacks are in sync, then each time you hit go on your main playback, the macro should advance the secondary playback at the same time.

You might find a more elegant solution if you post the question to the ETC Programmers Group on Facebook, but this solution should work and means you don't need to faff with OSC or a second Nomad instance.

[indyld]

Sounds like a nice idea that just creates confusion. It would be better to just hit go on the preview desk when the operator wasn't performing the real cue. They way, they can see the incoming cue itself, not just the result. Even so, having two shows going on out of time is an extra mental load that even an experienced operator could do without. 

Another option is just to make snapshot stills of the cues, chuck them into a media playback list and control those.

Or just write comments in the real cue stack.  At least then when you edit the show stack you don't have to mess about with keeping the preview on track. 

Edited October 16 by indyld