Alternate Cue Label formats (in 9.2.5)

lebem · Post by **lebem** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:14 am

I've checked through and haven't seen quite this feature discussed in the various "cue renumbering" topics.

In many of the places I've worked and with many of the PSM's etc... I've worked with, it's become rather standard for lighting cues to be numerically based, and sound cues to be alphabetically based.

Right now, with SCS (which I've just discovered and started using (wonderful alternative to some of the prohibitively expensive alternatives which does very nearly everything I need on a regular basis)), I can accomplish this manually labeling each and every cue.

What I would like, is an option on the global production settings page to designate whether new cues are assigned incremental numbers or incremental letters. Instead of always getting "Q1, Q2, Q3..." I'd like to see "A, B, C...". What happens when you run out of alphabet you ask? Well where I've worked we've always gone to double letters, "X, Y, Z, AA, AB,...,BA, BB, BC" etc...

This would be great, thanks.

Mike Daniell · Post by **Mike Daniell** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:13 pm

I've implemented a solution that will be in 9.2.5. This is even simpler than having to set an option: If a cue label does not contain numerics then the next cue label generated from that cue label will be an alphabetic cue label, eg A, B, ... Y, Z, AA, AB, etc. If numerics are encountered SCS will increment the number part as at present, eg Q1, Q2, etc.