Category: Tutorials

What’s in my Qlab show template? (Templates, part 2)

TL;DR: Speed up your workflow – and your learning in QLab – by making a template. Here is mine. The Story: I created a template that I use to start all of my shows, and contains the most commonly used scripts of mine. It isn’t cluttered with EVERYTHING I’ve learned, just something to help me …

ALL THE VIDEO STUFFS

The following is an email that I sent a couple of years ago, when I was advising on the video design for a production of Laramie Project. This is typically a video-heady show, and they wanted to incorporate some live cameras in the show, as well as learn Qlab. I still get a lot of …

Setting computer system volume

TL;DR: Setting the computer’s headphone output volume so that it’s the same every time, using Qlab. The Story: There are so many things to set and remember at the top of a show. Volume settings for your computer shouldn’t have to be one of them. Scenario One: You’re running the show on a laptop which …

A Dummies Guide to Qlab, Part 2

TL;DR: One more week of introduction to Qlab. The Story: So, now we know what all of the buttons do. Let’s look at the actual Cue List, where we spend much of our programming time. The Esoteric Bit: Here is a sample show from a concert I designed lighting and video for: The first column shows …

A Dummies’ Guide to Qlab, Part 1

TL;DR: QLab is for more than just playing back audio and video files – and easy to use. The Story: I use QLab for almost all of the live shows I work on these days. Even if it isn’t totally necessary upon first look, it provides for me a unified user interface as I cut …

Qlab tutorials are coming!

Good morning! Starting next week, we are going to host a series here on Rocktzar.com, all about using Qlab in your show (with a couple of other production tips and topics thrown in along the way). Over the course of the next year or so, there will be weekly posts on how you can better program your …