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Cueing time
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Lighting Designers:How much time do you budget for writing cues in a musical. I find it can take me two hours to write a sequence for a big production number.I try to use all of the proper tools;…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by David Neville Mar 17, 2014.

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David Neville replied to Brian Carter's discussion Cueing time
"As an addendum: when working with moving lights or LED's I do take the time to program focus points or color libraries before tech. This is imperative to me. Every moment saved getting through the technical issues is a moment that can be…"
Mar 17, 2014
David Neville replied to Brian Carter's discussion Cueing time
"Haven't browsed the forum here for a long time so my reply might be be a little late. Anyway, I have worked for a long time as a lighting designer and have become fairly routine in my habits. I'm lucky in that I usually work with union…"
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Nov 5, 2013
John Kimball replied to Brian Carter's discussion Cueing time
"When I get asked how much time I need for lighting cues I reply "How much time do I get?". This process varies a lot depending on the show, the director, choreographer, TD, producer, artistic director and venue. I work in venues ranging…"
Sep 8, 2013
Brian Miller replied to Brian Carter's discussion Cueing time
"I agree with Mr. Shelley - you need to know what you want to do at most moments of the piece before you should sit down to create the sequence of cues. By whatever means you use, you need to be able to visualize the looks you wish to create before…"
Sep 4, 2013
Michael Dorn replied to Brian Carter's discussion Cueing time
"Disclaimer: I only have conventional fixtures. To save cueing time, I generally record from stage settings during tech rehearsal. That means setting sliders and on my ETC board just hitting "rec-cue-#-enter". …"
Sep 3, 2013
Steve Shelley replied to Brian Carter's discussion Cueing time
"Hi Brian; In my experience i've found that no matter how truncated the time allotted for cueing seems to be, getting initial memories recorded into the console is often directly related to document preparation. I create what i call a Cue…"
Sep 3, 2013
Nathan Kelley replied to Brian Carter's discussion Cueing time
"I suppose it depends a lot on what kind of instruments (intelligent or standard) and how many you have. I have 70 conventional instruments and over 80 dimmer channels. My console is a Express 250. I have my students hang the instruments and…"
Sep 2, 2013
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Cueing time

Lighting Designers:How much time do you budget for writing cues in a musical. I find it can take me two hours to write a sequence for a big production number.I try to use all of the proper tools; groups, palettes, magic sheets. Sometimes it just feels like my cueing is taking way too long.I am a one man show. I hang, circuit, color, focus and cue the shows. No ME or programmer to help out.See More
Aug 26, 2013
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John Kimball replied to Brian Carter's discussion Consoles in the group Lighting
"I recently ran a show on an ETC Ion, nice interface coming from an Expression. What I really appreciated was the iPhone RFU and might consider this a prerequisite for a future purchase. Having a RFU in my pocket was extremely useful. My…"
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"got any old pics of those old beasts?"
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