Palettes; Creating And Storing Palettes; Function Group - Lightwave Research Status Cue User Manual

Palettes

Palettes are extremely useful programming tools. Status Cue provides 128
Palettes. Palettes can be thought of as "Preset Focuses" with all applicable
Constructs. Palettes allow one or more Scenes or Sequences to reference
another Scene (Palette) for commonly used Construct information. Typically,
Palettes are used for positions, but Status Cue offers the flexibility of saving
any or all Constructs to a Palette. Thus, a handful of Palettes can be edited
instead of possibly hundreds of individual Scenes and Sequences.
Examples: you can create one Palette for commonly used positions, another

Creating and Storing Palettes

To create a Palette, perform the following procedure:
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Palette for colors, and another Palette for gobos. Also, when a trim
height changes, (the truss is moved up or down due to a venue
change) simply edit a few position Palettes instead of refocusing
every Scene, Sequence, and Preset in your Show.
1. Open or create a Scene.
2. Press the <
PALETTE
Figure 5.52. FUNCTION Group
3. Select the fixture(s) that will use the Palettes.
4. Select a Construct (or all) to place in the Palette by pressing the desired key
or the < ALL > key in the CONSTRUCTS group. The selected Construct key
will blink to show that it is currently being edited and the values within the
Scene or Sequence window will also change to red.
Note: if the desired Construct key is not blinking, the Construct is not being
edited.
5. Change the required Construct(s) as desired.
6. If necessary, change to a different Bank.
7. Press the < STORE > key in the CONTROL group (Figure 5.53). This will
bring up the Store a Palette
> key in the FUNCTION group.
dialogue box. Refer to Figure 5.54.