A Sound and Video Production Company
TL;DR: Make a template of a show with all of the common scripts and cues that go into it. The Story: After I did a couple of shows with QLab, I quickly saw that there were a number of things that would repeatedly be useful, like my post about volume control. I was also learning new …
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 …
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 …
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 …
TL;DR: Qlab is supposedly a powerful application – but why is Brian spending a year to write about it? The Story: As anyone who has worked with me on a live show will attest, I am a HUGE Qlab junkie. I try to use it for everything – partly just to test the limits of …
