ETC Ion - Theatre Uwinnipeg

Referenced Marks
Referenced marks are user-specified marks that are manually applied to specific channels or
parameters. When AutoMarks are disabled, referenced marks may be used. AutoMark and
Referenced Marks cannot be used simultaneously.
Note:
If you begin programming with AutoMark enabled, and then disable the feature, all
of the AutoMarks in the show are converted to referenced marks.
There are essentially two parts to a successful referenced mark. The first part is the cue with the
mark flag (set by the user). This is the cue in which any non-intensity parameters will change. This
cue is referred to as the marked cue.
The second part is the cue with intensity value for the channels in question. This is referred to as the
source cue. This is also the cue where the non-intensity moves are stored.
In order to use mark properly, you must specify channels to be marked in the source cue. Ion will
not assume all moving lights apply to any given mark.
There are two ways to apply a referenced mark. You can apply a mark flag at a cue level and then
subsequently reference that flag in a later cue, or you can apply a mark in a cue and reference back
to an earlier cue.
Referenced marks are useful because the non-intensity parameter data is stored in the cue that
actually fades the lights up. Therefore, any changes to the non-intensity parameter data is modified
in the source cue. You do not need to worry about changing it in the marked cue.
Setting Referenced Mark Flags
You can apply a mark flag by pressing:
• [Cue] [n] {Mark} [Enter]
This sets a flag (M) on a cue for later marking activity. In subsequent cues, when channels are
marked, they will preset for movement in this cue (unless told to mark elsewhere).
When you are building a cue containing channels that you want to mark, do the following:
• [select channels] {Mark} [Enter]
• Store the cue, following normal procedures. Ion will automatically look backwards in the cue
list for the first mark flag it encounters.
For Example:
Assume you had placed a mark flag on Cue 10 (this is becomes the Marked Cue).
• [Cue] [10] {Mark} [Enter]
Later you store Cue 12 with a mark instruction on channels 1-10 (this becomes the Source
Cue).
• [1] [thru] [10] {Mark} [Enter] - Note that channels 1-10 are displayed with a red
“M” in the upper right corner.
• [Record] [1] [2] [Enter]
Since no specific mark instruction was given to the channels in cue 12, the channels will
mark back to the first “M” encountered in the preceding cues of the cue list, provided that
the intensity for those channels is “out” throughout the duration of the mark.
When Cue 10 is played back, the non-intensity parameters of channels 1-10 will fade to the
values stored in Cue 12. Then in Cue 12, the intensity will fade up on those channels.
12 Using Mark 177