I am a new user to Vista and will be using it to program the lights for plays at a small 64 seat amateur theatre called Incognito Theatre in Frieren Barnet, North London. So far, I have viewed all the excellent YouTube video tutorials, patched all our fixtures, created a number of fixture groups and created a layout for the theatre.
A typical play will have the following type of lighting cue format:
- The audience enters with House lights
- Scene 1
- Scene 2
- Scene 3
- Interval with House lights
- Scene 4
- Scene 5
- Scene 6
- Curtain call
- The audience exits with House lights.
I am keen to ensure that I use Vista in the way that the designers intended and not force it to be something different. Can you please give some high level guidelines as to how I should go about using Vista to meet my requirements.
Thank you very much
Regards
Huw Morgan
Hello Huw.
Welcome. It sounds like you are on your way.
Vista is quite flexible in the way that you program it.
If it were me, I would program a single cuelist exactly as you describe.
You could use the store all method to store each cue, if you later want to “update” a cue using the store all method it would literally replace each cue each time. The advantage to doing this is that you wouldnt need to worry about tracking so much, Store all handles this.
The editor is however likely the most common method It’s super fast to program and make changes. Programming in this mode is working directly in your cuelist.
The only thing to be aware of is “tracking” if you make an edit (for example) in scene 3. This would track forwards through all of your cues.
There are however tools to help such as “cue only” editing and “blocking”.
Let me know if you have any specific questions.
Jack
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Jack
Thank you very much for your most helpful reply. It is very much appreciated. I will continue my Vista3 education with your advice in mind.
Regards
Huw Morgan