Jay Ashworth
Well-Known Member
I've just snagged QLab2 (because it is in what is presently my budget :-}), and set up my next show with it.
And after I figured out that the way you import multiple audio files to separate cues at once was by group-drag from Finder, I was good to go.
Except that I don't see -- as some googling tells me no one else saw -- any way to manually fade out and stop a cue. And the googling results I *did* find suggested to me that the author didn't understand why anyone would ever *want* to do that (hint: because we only have one channel out audio out of our laptops .
The place to put it is obvious (to me, anyway): in the Active Cues panel, which presently has a Play/Pause button. Add a Stop button, with a workspace preference for the fadeout duration, and probably a second one for a fadeout duration on the Emergency Stop/Stop All button.
Does anyone who's running QLab 3 know whether this issue's been addressed?
(QLab is, honestly, more complex than I really need for what I do -- and in my opinion, Progressive Disclosure wasn't implemented as much as I'd like to see, so that power unduly complexifies using it for simple stuff -- but that's the one thing I really can't live without for the sort of theatre I work, and if it's in 3, I'll probably budget it in for sometime in the future. If not, I'll look at other stuff.)
(Oh, and yes, I have a Mac now. 7,1 MBP)
And after I figured out that the way you import multiple audio files to separate cues at once was by group-drag from Finder, I was good to go.
Except that I don't see -- as some googling tells me no one else saw -- any way to manually fade out and stop a cue. And the googling results I *did* find suggested to me that the author didn't understand why anyone would ever *want* to do that (hint: because we only have one channel out audio out of our laptops .
The place to put it is obvious (to me, anyway): in the Active Cues panel, which presently has a Play/Pause button. Add a Stop button, with a workspace preference for the fadeout duration, and probably a second one for a fadeout duration on the Emergency Stop/Stop All button.
Does anyone who's running QLab 3 know whether this issue's been addressed?
(QLab is, honestly, more complex than I really need for what I do -- and in my opinion, Progressive Disclosure wasn't implemented as much as I'd like to see, so that power unduly complexifies using it for simple stuff -- but that's the one thing I really can't live without for the sort of theatre I work, and if it's in 3, I'll probably budget it in for sometime in the future. If not, I'll look at other stuff.)
(Oh, and yes, I have a Mac now. 7,1 MBP)