Copy key
The Copy key is used to copy something from one location to another (valid) location.
E.g. you want to copy group 1 to group 2
Copy Group 1 At 2 Please
If you want to make a copy of cue number 2 to a (new) cue 9 in the main cue list, you can use the following keys:
Copy Cue 2 At 9 Please this will give you a selection box on screen 1 where you need to choose Copy.
If you need to copy cue number 2 from the main cue list to a different executor, then you need to specify the executor. The same example but coping to executor number 4:
Copy Cue 2 At 9 Exec 4 Please, same selection box where you select Copy.
You can also use ranges.
Copy Cue 2 Thru 4 At Cue 9 Please will create cue 9, 10 and 11 (if you had cue 2, 3 and 4). Cue 9 will be the same as 2, 10 is like 3 and 11 is like 4.
If you copy from one source to a destination range, then you create several similar cues.
E.g. copying cue 2 to cue 15, 16 and 17 will create three copies of cue 2 located at cue 15, 16 and 17. This is the key strokes:
Copy Cue 2 at 1 5 Thru 1 7 Please again you'll need to select copy in the selection box.
If you try to copy information to an already existing location you have two options: Overwrite or Merge.
Overwrite will delete the current value. Merge will add new values and overwrite existing values.
Advanced Functionality
If you press and hold the 
key and then press the Copy key, then you'll get the Clone command.
This is used to make a fixture do exactly what another fixture is doing. If fixture number 1 is used in some groups, presets and cue list, then it can be a hassle if you need fixture number 5 to do the exact same tings. You would have to manually check where fixture 1 is used and then re program fixture 5 to do the same. Clone can help you with this.
When you clone something you are often presented with some options on screen 1.
- 'Cancel' is used to cancel the clone operation.
- 'Low Prio Merge' is the default option. It means Low priority merge. It will only clone the values from fixture 1 when there's a values and where fixture 5 doesn't have any values already - it doesn't destroy any already existing programming for fixture 5.
- 'Merge' will clone all the values from fixture 1 into fixture 5. If Fixture 5 had something programmed where fixture 1 also had something, than the values will be the same as fixture 1. If Fixture 5 have something programmed that fixture 1 doesn't , then these values will stay.
- 'Overwrite' will delete all existing values for fixture 5 and clone the values from fixture 1.
Here's some examples:
In your entire show you need fixture 5 to be a copy of fixture 1 and what fixture 5 had isn't needed anymore:
+Copy (gives you the Clone command) Fixture 1 At 5 Please now select Overwrite on screen 1
In executor 3 you need fixture 5 to be a copy of fixture 1 and what fixture 5 had isn't needed anymore:
+Copy (gives you the Clone command) Fixture 1 At 5 If Exec 3 Please now select Overwrite on screen 1
In executor 3 you need the fixtures in group 2 to be a copy of fixture 1 and since we are not completely sure if the fixture in group 2 is used already, then we should do a Low Prio Merge :
+Copy (gives you the Clone command) Fixture 1 At Group 2 If Exec 3 Please now select Low Prio Merge on screen 1
There's a very big range of possibilities when cloning. Please also have a look at the Clone command description.