Something I posted last year:   “If you have a manual paper tray option, use it instead of just putting your labels into the normal paper tray. With such small tolerances, label stock can quickly lose alignment when it’s picked up and rotated  by printer rollers. On my commercial laser printer, I lose my label text off the side until I pop down my manual feed tray – then everything works well!”

So, I used the “subtract Usded quantities form available, ” which worked great. Then I started a new show and we were moving along fine. I had to stop for a day. I saved and synced with the network. But while I was away for about a day, my computer restarted and when I went back to look at Available quantities, they were back to the original amounts??? Why did that happen?

Hi Kevin, after you make adjustments, putting the cake back together is easy, just select the shots and go to Effects > Combine as cake…   When you recombine the cake, as long as it has the original part number and you save it in the same collection (e.g. My effects) it will go right back to where is was before you broke it apart. Once the cake is recombined, you can just close the temporary show.

Drew, once I break apart cake to make changes, what do I do then. Do I have to select all items and combine as cake to try and save it.   Kevin  

Hey Drew it’s about 24:00 into this video. Thank you Kevin.

Hey Mum Pyrotechnics, I was initially thinking that you could use Insert minimum separation from the Script menu but I did a quick test and unfortunately it’s not designed to separate events with identical times. We might be able to enhance it to handle simultaneous events in the future. The addressing algorithm doesn’t have the ability to modify time values so that’s not an option either. For built-in firing systems that have this kind of limitation, the timing adjustments are made when the firing script is exported. For a custom firing system, I know it’s no fun but I think you’ll have to make the adjustments manually.

Hi Kevin, the best way to edit a cake is to select it, then go to Effects > Break apart cake. This opens a temporary show with the cake laid out on the timeline as individual shots. From there, you can make any adjustments necessary, then select the shots and recombine the cake.   Can you send over a link to the YouTube video that you watched? It sounds like it might be outdated and needs to be taken down.    

I watched one of your videos on your Youtube channel about creating effects, where you created a 13-shot slice and was able to directly edit in the effect editor. I’m trying to do the same thing now to make minor modifications and it won’t allow it? I get a prompt that states that a cake cannot be edited, only single items can. Is there a way around this, where I can edit cakes in effect editor. Thank you for any help! Kevin.

So no comments at all then……?