Technical Support wrote:
Interesting thought, however, I believe it would lead to some accidentally turning off lights, and counter complaints.
However, the process described would be for turning off the lights for a break, but while the units are still supervised. We recommend removing power all together for long term (overnight) shut down.
If you are looking for a quick way to keep a certain light from firing for a few shots, then quickly re-engage it, the GROUPS option is designed for that purpose. For example, if you have a set up with a hairlight, and you know some shots will not require a hairlight, you can set up GRP 8 with all lights active but the hair light. When you dont need it, switch to GRP8. When you do need it, switch to ALL. If you dont want any lights to fire, switch to GRP7 which has no light selected.
Thank you for the reply.
Probably double clicks or even tipple clicks of the right joystick on the main screen wouldn't happen accidentally because the right joystick doesn't have much use in that screen.
Groups are convenient when you already know the setup and can just switch between your settings. But when for example I start setting up and work with 3-6 lights to find the look I want and try to see it with some lights off/on, creating groups, and trying to find the right one you need when I just want to turn a certain light off, will take even more time that going to light settings.
I'd really like the shortcut to be seriously considered. If you think it can be accidentally engaged, maybe you can turn it off by default in CC settings?
Alex