Everything about how the rundown behaves. Most of these decide what a new cue looks like, so setting them once saves work on every list you build afterwards.
Hold image
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Image shown during a hold | (Black — no image), or one of your scenes. |
Worth setting once. A hold on black looks like a fault; a hold on a card looks like the programme. See hold.
Each playout can override it under Outputs, where (same as the cue list) takes the place of black. So one line can have its own hold card while the rest follow this one.
Defaults for new cues
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Transition | None (hard cut), or a fade of 0.5, 1, 1.5 or 2 seconds, for newly added cues. |
| Transition ends on the out point | On: the fade finishes exactly at the out point. Off: the cue plays to its out point in full and the fade starts there. |
| Fade out at stop | The fade used when you press STOP, or when a cue with follow stop ends. |
| Follow action | Pause, Next, Loop or Stop (black), for newly added cues. |
Set Transition and Follow action to what your shows use most. Changing them does not touch cues that already exist.
Transition ends on the out point has no right answer, only a house style — transitions explains the trade.
Countdown warning
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Amber from | Seconds remaining when the countdown turns amber. |
| Red from | Seconds remaining when it turns red. |
This is the operator’s warning on the transport bar, not the clock the audience sees. Ten and five seconds are sensible; longer if the person on the button also has other things to do.
Music
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Music fade-out (ms) | How quickly a music bed fades when the playout leaves its range. |
About a second sounds deliberate. An instant cut sounds like a fault; four seconds sounds like nobody is at the desk.
What is not on this page
Cue types in the toolbar — which buttons the toolbar shows — is on the Modules page. Show subgroups collapsed after import appears only with a module that imports material as a group, on that module’s own page.