The cue list

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Part 1 got you to a rundown that runs. This part covers the cue list in full: what every column does, what every setting changes, and what the special lines are for.

It is written to be dipped into rather than read through. Each page answers one question and stays short, because this is the part you open with a show two hours away.

PageWhat it covers
The list itselfColumns, selection, editing a cell, and everything in the right-click menu.
NumberingWhy the numbers look the way they do, and which lines deliberately have none.
GO, stop and armingThe three states of a cue and exactly what each button does.
Follow actionsPause, next, loop, stop — and why a still behaves differently from a clip.
TransitionsCut, fade and dip; where the duration comes from; how a cue leaves the screen.
In and out pointsTrimming without touching the file, and the duration that fills itself in.
GroupsTwo levels of structure, collapsing, splitting, icons and exporting.
PartsThe other kind of container, and when to use it instead of a group.
Music bedsAudio that runs on underneath a run of cues.
Reordering and editingDragging, duplicating, renaming, deleting — safely, during a show.
The archive folderA place in the list for what is not taking part today.
Go-to cuesJumping to another cue: restarting a block, skipping one.
Warm-upWhat the program does in advance so GO gives picture at once.
Missing filesFinding a moved file before the show rather than during it.
The item paneLooking inside a line without opening it.

What this part does not cover

The cue types themselves — media, stills, web pages, playlists — are part 3. This part is about the list and the settings that apply to any line in it.

Cue types that a module supplies, and the extra columns they can fill in, belong to that module’s own documentation.