> -----Original Message-----
> From: AudioBox@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:AudioBox@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Ellman
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 12:14 PM
> To: AudioBox@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [AudioBox] Re: ShowMaker and AB64
>
>
> I guess the question is whether the "file name" v. "selection number"
> difference between an AB16 and an AB64 only appears in ShowMaker. The
> selection number programming thing has always been one of the AB's
> biggest drawbacks making transfers of pre-programmed shows from one
> computer/AB to another a royal pain.
>


Just wondering why that is? Don't you just back up the show using the
tools in ABEdit, and then import the project into a new computer or use
the same computer with a new AB, and then Import the show into the AB.

I don't move or remount a lot of shows, so I don't do this very often.
But the couple times I've tinkered with it, it seemed to work OK. Am I
missing something?

Actually I like the selection number frankly. Because if I want to
change a cue, I delete the old file(s), put the new ones in the same
selection numbers as before, and my work is done. (not counting if
levels have changed, etc....) But I kind of like that working method.

But I can see times where this would also be a pain I guess as well. I
guess is you already have a show in the box, that you can not
delete/overwrite and you want to import an old show that would make use
of the same selection numbers and such, that would probably be a royal
pain.

Richard B. Ingraham
RBI Computers and Audio
http://www.rbicompaudio.20m.com
rbi@...