Template…

[Rich Walsh]

Six years in the making, on and off... Here, finally, is my collection of macros updated for QLab 3. Hopefully some of it is useful to other people: I collect scraps of things I've built for other designers or for my own shows. I'm a bit worried it's become so bloated now that it will slow QLab down; I have to keep a text file to keep track of the hotkey combinations I've used up! The list of keyboard shortcuts is the Macros cue list itself. I've also now added a Word file of all the code as I find it useful to be able to search through lots of scripts at once looking for blocks I can reassemble to make something new (I have a wiki for this, but haven't found a way of exporting formatted text that can still be copied and pasted into AppleScript Editor).

There's a few bits still to finish, and then I need to update my website and the QLab wiki. Thanks to watching Mic Pool's work over the last few years I've replaced some of the basic AppleScript routines with OSC methods, but mostly it's still AppleScript.

Macros include:

Levels

Level bump

Fades

Fade in

Fade in with follow-on

Fade out

Build

Dip

Prepare fades

Crash fades

Force fades

Force running fades

Audio

Turn on infinite loop

Make mono

Gang copier

Change target

Convert to wav

Update all instances

Add files from iTunes

Times

Adjust Pre Wait

Adjust Duration

Adjust Post Wait

Effective duration

Create adjustable auto-follow

Transport

Nudge

Toggle pause of all except selected cue(s)

Loading

Load to time

Jump into a string of cues

Batch adjusting

Toggle arming

Toggle arming of all MSC cues

Batch arm/disarm

Clear number

Renumber with a prefix

Add suffix to renumber

Reset names

Update filenames

Batch adjust continue mode

Clear notes

Move cut cues

Delete

Batch adjust selected

General

Import files

Group selected cue(s)

Group selected cue(s) with number & notes

Convert Group Cue

Set target

Reveal target file

Localise media

Arm

Disarm

Add Start Cue(s)

Add a crashable wait cue

Navigation

Mark/Jump

Next broken cue

Next cue which shares Cue Target

View

Switch cue lists

Switch cue lists without losing playhead

Resets

Position QLab

I don't know how it would work with the QLab concept of templates: I use it by making a folder with an "audio" folder inside it and sticking a copy of the template file next to that – renaming for the project, and then customising (eg: setting up gangs & default levels).

Enjoy.

Rich

(PS: Chris, I haven't tested anything with today's beta – it's taken me 3 weeks to test everything in 3.1.8!)

[Craig K]

Rich,

This is an amazing set of tools, and looks like quite an investment in time and energy. Nice work, and thanks for sharing it!

Craig K.

[Chris Ashworth]

Belatedly, this is really something Rich. Thank you for sharing it. 

(Delayed reply because it has been sitting in my inbox mentally filed under “I should look closely at this!” for a while, and there is a lot here to look at!)

-C

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[Erik Rietman]

Great work. Thankyou for sharing!

[Juan Miguel Alcarria Herrera]

Thanks!!!!!

Great work!

[Andrew Blizzard]

I started using these on my latest project and it has sped up my workflow considerably! And I'm barely using most of them. 

Thanks for sharing this with everyone.

Andrew

[Rich Walsh]

Sorry for the spam, but fixing my website to post this there is not looking likely this year…

Here's an update with some bug fixes and a couple of new things:

1. Scripts should be immune to whether you use "." or "," for a decimal point
2. There's a batch script to fix any OSC commands in the template that do use "." – disarm it and run it if you use ","
3. New "Navigate cues with shared Cue Target" script, with ugly popup list to show all the cues that, well, you know…
4. Now includes "Make a soundcheck sequence" – possibly the first script I wrote for QLab, but now with optional crashable waits so it will carry on round the speakers without you if that's how you like to do sound checks
5. Some more bits of "Batch adjust selected" turned back on, and it can now set the command in MIDI voice messages

Do please let me know if you encounter any issues with it.

[limited...@gmail.com]

Hi Rich,

I seem to have come across an issue with one of the scipts in the template.  The import files script throws up an error if I try to import files that are not in the audio folder next to the workspace.  The error says script does not understand the "copyFile" message.

The following part of the script is highlighted:

-- If the file is not already in place, copy it to the appropriate subfolder
                   
                    if my checkForFile(item i of theSubfolders, eachName) is false then
                        my copyFile(item i of theSubfolders, eachFile)
                    end if
                   
                    set eachTarget to sharedPath & item i of theSubfolders & ":" & eachName



Thanks for the excellent template, so useful.

[limited...@gmail.com]

I figured it out, that line should have read:

my copyFileViaFinder(item i of theSubfolders, eachFile)

I've amended it and attached the template again with the correction to the import script.

Dan

[Rich Walsh]

Sorry: that's an incomplete job of renaming the subroutines that have been recycled so they are consistent across the scripts – a simple job that I must have messed up after the last set of full testing.

Rich

[talkingtobrian]

This looks great! Can't wait to look at this some more. I do a lot of the same things, I think, in terms of templates. (At least in theory if not execution, haven't really looked yet to compare notes.)  Thanks for sharing!

[Patrick Spadrille]

Seems amazone! Thank toi.

[Rich Walsh]

Here's an update for v4. Some things have gone as they're now built-in (I wonder where they get their ideas from?); a lot of hotkeys have changed. Some new stuff:

ADDED: "Set last slice of selected Audio or Video Cue(s) to infinite loop" [⇧⌃⌥8]

ADDED: "Set colour of selected cue(s) to grey" [⇧⌃⌥0]

ADDED: "Scan for files" [⌃⌥S] – add new audio & video files from a watched folder to the "Watched" cue list, recreating the folder structure (also added ^W to switch to the cue list)

ADDED: "Log event to file" [in "not on a hotkey" section]; example Start Cue in Scratch cue list ###EXPERIMENTAL###

IMPROVED: "Create 5s default fade IN of selected Audio, Mic or Video Cue as next cue" [⌃F & ⌃⌥F] – will now also act on Video Cues

IMPROVED: "Load selected cue(s) to a time you enter" [^L] – you can now enter negative times to specify time remaining

IMPROVED: "Reset name of selected cue(s)" [^N] – can now mark looped cues

IMPROVED: "Batch adjust selected" [⇧⌃J] – now includes actions for Light Cues and an "act on ALL CUES in workspace" mode

IMPROVED: "Update all instances of selected Audio Cue" [⇧⌃⌥G] – now also propagates slices

Fade curves have been captured for v4 – finally we have equal gain & equal power curves! Some macros are now on a fancy cart, that looks great in QLab Remote.

Let me know when you find the bugs; it's getting a bit too bloated for me to check everything thoroughly each time…

Rich

[Scott McGlynn]

Rich,

I've been using these for a show the last few weeks (thank you much by the way) and tonight this subroutine started throwing an error:

on enterSomeTextWithIcon(thePrompt, defaultAnswer, emptyAllowed) -- [Shared subroutine]

tell application id "com.figure53.QLab.4"

set theAnswer to ""

repeat until theAnswer is not ""

set theAnswer to text returned of (display dialog thePrompt with title dialogTitle with icon 1 ¬

default answer defaultAnswer buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button "OK" cancel button "Cancel")

if emptyAllowed is true then exit repeat

end repeat

return theAnswer

end tell

end enterSomeTextWithIcon

ERROR: QLab got an error: Can't make {} in type string.  

I can't think of any updates or changes I've made to the system and it even throws this error if I try opening your workspace that I've not altered in an way.

I'm really missing the renumber with prefix function. I'm prepping an outdoor projections project and I use that script along with another to change all the cues from my indoor model mapping to my outdoor performance mapping of surfaces and projectors.

I've turned it off and on again so step one of troubleshooting is complete. Any thoughts?

Thank you,

Scott McGlynn

[Rich Walsh]

Assuming that this error is occurring in "Renumber with a prefix” it appears that your clipboard somehow contains an empty list, so the variable clipboardContents is being passed with its class as list.

Change this line:

set clipboardContents to the clipboard

to:

set clipboardContents to the clipboard as text

I wonder what’s setting your clipboard to an empty list? I found it quite tricky to do…

Rich

[Scott McGlynn]

Rich,

That cured it. Thank you! I am also perplexed at the change. I'll test it on my backup seat this weekend to see if it behaves similarly.

Scott 

[Rich Walsh]

It is a puzzle, as the only way I can get this error message…

"QLab 4 got an error: Can’t make {} into type string.”

… is to pass the subroutine a variable as the defaultAnswer that has been explicitly declared as a list, eg:

set clipboardContents to the clipboard as list

If the clipboard is an empty list and the variable is not explicitly coerced I get:

"QLab 4 got an error: Can’t make {list:{}} into type string."

So, I’m not sure how to recreate the precise situation – but on the next update I will make sure that all actions to/from the clipboard are explicit about the class required.

Rich

[Lars Søgnen]

Rich, one word. Amazing. This is beautiful, and thank you for sharing these.

Best regards Lars Reinhardt

Lets get this show on the road

[Abdel El Asri]

This is gold I was working on my own version when I found this!!!! I'll complete mine with this one then share it, promised! :)

Thank you so much

[Rich Walsh]

I've finally got round to giving my website a kick so future updates will be at www.allthatyouhear.com.