The cue list

The cue list is the centre of the program: it contains the show, line by line. Part 1 showed how to build a working list, and this part describes the list in full. It starts with the way a show runs, because everything else builds on that. It then describes the table and its settings, the ways to organise a long list, and finally the special lines and tools.

Page	What it covers
GO, stop and arming	The three states of a cue, and what each button does. Read this page first.
Warm-up	What the program prepares when you arm a cue, so that GO shows the picture at once.
The list itself	The columns, selecting lines, changing a value, and the right-click menu.
Numbering	How the numbers are built, and which lines have no number.
Follow actions	Pause, next, loop and stop, and when a cue does not trigger a follow action.
Transitions	Cut, fade and dip, the duration, and how a cue leaves the screen.
In and out points	How to trim a cue without changing the file, and how to split a video.
Groups	The three levels of structure, and how to collapse, split and export groups.
Parts	The other kind of container, and when to use it instead of a group.
Music beds	Music that continues under a series of cues.
Reordering and editing	How to drag, duplicate, rename and delete lines safely, also during a show.
The archive folder	A place in the list for cues that you do not use today.
Go-to cues	How to jump to another cue, to restart a block or to skip one.
Missing files	How to find a moved file before the show.
The item pane	How to look inside a line without opening it.
Start times and the emergency list	A cue that starts at a time of day, and a group that takes over when the list runs out.

What this part does not cover

This part describes the list, and the settings that apply to every line. The cue types themselves, such as media, stills, web pages and playlists, are described in part 3.

Cue types from a module, and the extra columns that modules use, are described in the part of the manual for that module.