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17.5 Advanced
17.5.1 All chans controlled LTP
When set to Yes all HTP channels under control of the Playback act as if they were LTP channels. When the Playback with
this Cue Stack is the latest activated and highest priority Playback then the Playback has complete control of all HTP channels
regardless of whether they are active on other faders.
HTP channels that are active on higher priority Playbacks will be under control of the higher priority Playback and will ignore
this setting.
HTP channels that are active on other Playbacks with the same priority, but which were activated/reasserted more recently than
this Playback, will be under control of the other Playbacks.
17.5.2 Block FX from other playbacks
When set to Yes then any channels controlled by this Playback block FX on those channels from other Playbacks.
Channels controlled by this Playback that have levels but no FX are not affected by FX on other Playbacks. In effect an implicit
zero FX is added to these channels to block the other Playbacks.
When set to No then channels controlled by this Playback that have levels but no FX are affected by FX on those channels from
other Playbacks.
17.5.3 Masters affect level
When set to Yes then the levels of HTP channels (generally Intensity) are affected by the grand master and sub master faders.
Channels also are affected by DBO and can be released by SHIFT RELEASE.
When set to No then the levels of HTP channels are not affected by the grand master and sub master faders. They are also not
affected by DBO or by SHIFT RELEASE.
Note that Group Masters are not affected by this setting. Therefore even with “Masters affect level” set to No, channels will still
be affected by Group Masters.
17.5.4 Playback priority
The Playback priority can be set to NORMAL, HIGH and ABOVE PROGRAMMER.
When all Playbacks are set to priority NORMAL then the latest Playback to be activated/reasserted will control the channels.
Playbacks set to HIGH priority always have higher priority than Playbacks set to NORMAL priority.
Playbacks set to ABOVE PROGRAMMER have higher priority than the Programmer – in order to edit the Cues in the Program-
mer and see the changes on the Output it is best to release the Cue Stack.
17.5.5 Move when dark
When set to Yes, then MagicQ checks after each Cue is executed whether it should perform a move when dark.
Any heads that are used in the next Cue but which have 0% intensity in the current cue are checked to see whether the Position,
Beam and Colour attributes should be preloaded before the next Cue is executed. If the Position, Beam or Colour values are
different from the current values then the new values are crossfaded with a time of 3 seconds.
This option is similar to putting a Mark Cue before every Cue in a Cue Stack.