Instruction manual

Programming
Leap Frog 48/96 Operating Manual – Issue 3 Page 89
Smart Tagging
In normal desk operation, only those channels which are tagged in the Program Window
will be recorded into the memory, submaster or palette.
Smart Tags remove the need for you to work out which channels should or shouldn't be
tagged in a state. As such, they can be used to build states using submasters and other
playback elements.
With Smart Tags enabled, when the RECORD key is pressed the state on stage is what
will be recorded, regardless of whether or not a dimmer channel or fixture parameter is
tagged in the Program Window.
Put simply, using Smart Tags, you no longer have to think about Tracking. The desk will
insert whatever tracking is required to make your show work - including ignoring fixtures
whose intensity is set to 0% to enable Move On Dark to fully function.
To switch on Smart Tags – click on the [Smart Tag] button in the Program Window or
press the [Smart Tag] MFK on Special Page 1.
Use Smart Tags in combination with Cue Only to create inserted cues that don't affect the
rest of the cue stack, for example an added blackout in the middle of a scene.
Cue Only Option
The Cue Only option which is selectable via the [Cue Only] MFK on Special Page 1 and in
the Update Options Window allows you to program new cues or to make changes to cues
without affecting any subsequent cues in the memory stack.
Imagine a scenario where you have two cues, subtly different (Cue 1 and 2). In between
these, you wish to add a blackout with a solo spot for an added cue (Cue 1.5). Due to the
behaviour of tracking, if you added the solo spot and blackout into an insert cue 1.5, these
changes would track forwards into Cue 2, messing up the state.
By adding the new state as Cue Only, the desk will automatically add the required tagging
into Cue 2 to stop the changes from tracking forwards from Cue 1.5.