Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Blocks and Soft Blocks
I have a question when it comes to using Blocks and soft Blocks on a lighting board. From my understanding you should always what your blackout cues to have a block on them, So when you make a changes to a cue before the blackout it wont carry on to the cues after the blackout. From my understanding you want to do this when there's a big transition to another look ( different world).. I've notice whenever I add a cue before the block cue it creates a soft block and I was wondering why, because every time I delete that soft block it changes the cues I create after. I've also notice whenever I update cue only a soft block is created. I'm guessing its created to keep the change that I have made from tracking forward? If this is the case then I understand, because what I am doing is deleting the soft blocks just because I notice Stacy doing this for Rose Tattoo.
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What a soft block is a block on one 1 channel, which is why we delete them, as we do not assign them and you would have to be a computer to use them efficiently
ReplyDeleteA soft block is created when you have two cues, say 1 & 2 and in cue 1 channel 10 is at 50% and it is also at that level in Cue 2. You change the level of that channel from 50% to 60% *any other level) in Cue 1 and you update cue only. The board now thinks that channel 10 in cue 2 never wants to change because you decided not to track in Cue 1. Now if you leave the softblock and track channel 10 later it will not track
Let me know if this does not make sense