Can QLab 2 make an Emergency CD?

[Jay Ashworth]

Specifically: I have a show built in QLab2, with level adjustments and envelopes on many of the cues.

Should I expect to find a function in there that will export all the audio cues to new files, with those level changes baked into them, that I could burn to CD and have in the booth in case:

1. My laptop fails
2. I get hit by a bus
3. (Other unnamed catastrophes go here)

?

I'm still doing free community theatre for free, and hence using Q2 which is also free, but it's likely if a new job ever finally comes through, I'll pony up for Q3, so if this feature is in there, that's useful information as well.

 

[SteveMcQueen]

No. The best bet you be just to play the cues, and record them as they play in real time, then cut so each track is its own cue.

Qlab 3 is free, but only the free version is. Alabama 3 can't do this either.

Cheers

 

[Jay Ashworth]

There was a reason why I went with 2, but I forget what it was.

I can't imagine why I'd go analog; I'll just transpose the levels in Audacity by hand. There's only 2 tracks with envelopes, and only one of those is on the fade shape (which would be the only think terribly troublesome to reproduce.

I'll have to remember to RFE this.

 

[Amiers]

You could backup the files to import into another copy of Qlab 2 on a different machine if you meet the untimely event of getting hit by a bus.

 

[Jay Ashworth]

If I get hit by a bus, nobody left knows from QLab.

 

[Jay Ashworth]

And, on the "nobody knows from" front, I've just discovered that while the Free version lets you set up and run a Devamp cue, *it breaks it on reload*. Which isn't mentioned in the help file, though all the *other* Free restrictions seem to be.

Owel, off to figure out a new solution for those 2 cues...

 

[themuzicman]

That's why the license comes with authorizations for 3 machines - 1 Main QLab machine, 2 - Backup QLab Machine and 3 - Sound Designer/Programmer/Utitility machine.