ETC Eos ASCII

LTCast exports the cues of the active song as a USITT ASCII 3.0 cue list (.asc), the format ETC Eos-family consoles — Eos, Ion, Element and others on ETC console software — import. It creates the cue list; it does not set up timecode triggering for it.

Accessing the export

Choose File → Export to ETC Eos ASCII…. It works on the active song and proceeds only if that song has at least one marker; otherwise LTCast says there are no markers to export, or asks you to load a song first.

What gets exported

The file has an ETC header (Ident 3:0, Manufacturer ETC, Console Eos) and then, for each marker in time order:

• Cue N — numbered 1, 2, 3 … in time order. These are not the cue numbers you gave the cues in LTCast, and decimal cue numbers are not carried over.
• Text — the marker's label, shortened to 64 characters. For a label with non-ASCII characters (for example Chinese or Japanese) the file also carries the full text in an extra $$UText line, which Eos reads for the extended characters.
• A comment line (starting with !) above the cue, giving the cue's intended timecode — relative to the song start — and its department.

The timecode appears only in those comments. LTCast does not write an Eos timecode event list, so the cues are not placed at their times by the import; you use the comments to build or attach a timecode event list on the console yourself. There is one cue list — departments are not split into separate lists.

Importing into Eos

Copy the .asc file to the console by USB drive or network share, and import it through the console's USITT ASCII import (Files → Import → USITT ASCII). The cues appear in the cue list in order, with their labels.