Qlab cue that just shows time since start?

[Jay Ashworth]

Anybody got a better way, in QLab 4 or 5, to have a cue start and just sit there in the Active Cues list, runnin' up time but not doing anything, so I can tell, for example, how far into a dance number that has no music (or has multiple disconnected cues) I am? Or how long we've been in an act in theatre?

It's mostly for me, I'm not trying to report those times to an SM or anything.

I figure I can get a 1 pixel black JPG and use that for this, that's the "better way" I didn't pay off in the lede.

 

[dbaxter]

What if you had a sound file of, say, an hour of silence and played it so you could see running time? I'm not a QLab user (obviously), but I think it can show run time of one cue while you play others in addition to it.

 

[chausman]

A memo cue with a sufficiently long Pre-Wait or Post-Wait will do nothing, but when triggered they'll start timing. In the Active Cues list you'll get a count down, but in the cue list itself it'll be counting up.

 

[Lextech]

Try looking here https://groups.google.com/g/qlab/c/mcnHGsY0ZzA/m/tELh9md0BgAJ
The QLab group is VERY helpful.

 

[Jay Ashworth]

Well, I tried this with just a balck jpeg, and it works fine as it turns out. Suppose I should have done these things in the opposite order.