The Lighting Controller

How do I keep the final scene of the timeline on after it is finished? I'm doing a live performance, and there is a music number with detailed light cues. It ends with a blackout, and then the conventional lights come on. They need to stay on as I do a talking number for 5-12 minutes (it varies), then I would start the next song with light cues, and then do a talking number, on and on.

We see two possibilities:
1.
- add 1hour of duration at the end of the timeline, with the background lights on.
Then the background lights will stay on during your speach.
2.
- add a button in Live > Buttons with background lights on
- add a scene in the timeline project with background lights off
- switch on the button at the beginning of the show
Then each time you will stop the timeline, the background lights will become on.

Just wanted to ditto step two, I had to do that for a Christmas program at my church. Only thing I would recommend is to fade the main lights on before the timeline shuts off so that it will fade on and not a quick on/off unless you want it that way. Worked really well. I kept my generic light scene on and would always fade to it at end of light scene then nonlooped the time-line so it would shut off and the lights would not flicker at all b/c the main lights were already on. Good luck

Thanks for the input. I decided to go with option 2. It's working great.