A go-to cue is a line that sends the playout to another place in the same list. Use it to restart a block that must repeat, to skip a section that you do not need today, or to move to a place where you will continue later.
Adding a go-to cue
Click the arrow beside the Hold button in the toolbar and choose Go to. A line appears below the green line.
To set the line up, double-click it, or right-click it and choose Properties…. The window has two fields:
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Jump to | The cue that this line sends the playout to. |
| Only cue up (do not play yet) | GO jumps to the target and stops there. The picture does not change. The next GO plays the target. |
The two modes
The second field gives a go-to cue two modes.
Normal. A GO on the go-to cue jumps to the target and plays it, and the show continues from there. Use this to return a block to its start, or to skip a section.
Only cue up. A GO on the go-to cue moves the green line to the target and does nothing else, so the picture and the sound do not change. The next GO plays the target.
The second mode is the safe one during a live show. It lets you move to another place in the list while something else is on screen, such as a still, a hold or a speaker on another playout, without anything new appearing on air.
A go-to cue is not a step
A go-to cue has no number, and it does not change the numbers of the lines around it, because it only refers to another line and is not a step in the running order itself.
Moving lines does not break the jump
The jump refers to the target cue, not to its number or place. You can move the target, renumber the list or drag a block somewhere else, and the jump still goes to the same line.
If you delete the target, the go-to cue shows this. The column shows the old target, and when you open the cue, it reports that the target is no longer in the list. The cue never jumps to a different line without a warning.
Warning
A go-to cue that points backwards creates a loop that never ends by itself. That is what you want for a waiting loop before the start, but not in the middle of a show. There, put a hold or a pause in the loop, so that the operator can take control of the list again.