[QLab] Option to disable escape key

[Daniel Perelstein]

I oftentimes program custom "kill all" cues for my shows depending on their needs. One thing that I typically do is a 1 second fade & stop of my audio cue list, which is obviously less abrupt than the escape key. Another thing I'll do is program a kill all that excludes a projector black slide I'm using. Sometimes I'll have separate "kill all audio" and "kill all video".

Yes, these are mostly used during tech, but I've also had ops try to kill all using escape during shows or previews (yes, I try to impress upon them that this is never appropriate in a show environment) as well.

In any case, I program my custom kill alls as hotkeys that I teach my ops, but would also love the option to disable the escape key as a safety.

Thanks!
Dan

Daniel Perelstein                
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[Christopher Ashworth]

All good feedback, thanks Dan.

There's not currently a way to disable the escape key, but I'm interesting in addressing the issue you've described, although possibly in a slightly different way. My current thinking is to have the escape key trigger a "panic" on all cues, and then allow you to define what that means on a cue-by-cue basis. So a "panic" would basically be another verb for a cue-- start, stop, pause, panic.

-C

On May 31, 2011, at 1:58 PM, Daniel Perelstein wrote:

> I oftentimes program custom "kill all" cues for my shows depending on their needs. One thing that I typically do is a 1 second fade & stop of my audio cue list, which is obviously less abrupt than the escape key. Another thing I'll do is program a kill all that excludes a projector black slide I'm using. Sometimes I'll have separate "kill all audio" and "kill all video".
>
> Yes, these are mostly used during tech, but I've also had ops try to kill all using escape during shows or previews (yes, I try to impress upon them that this is never appropriate in a show environment) as well.
>
> In any case, I program my custom kill alls as hotkeys that I teach my ops, but would also love the option to disable the escape key as a safety.

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[Morgan Calma]

Hmmm, I like where it that is going. :)

[Ted Pallas]

And then a super-panic, for when things actually just need to stop, all of them?

It happens sometimes, especially on shady old machines (I mean, I guess the stage manager's boyfriend's roommate's old white MacBook counts as a computer, but c'mon you guys...) - I'd still want that too, though "panic" mode is great.

Ted Pallas
Live Media Designer
Sandwich Construction Consultant
ted dot pallas -at- gmail dot com
516.286.9661

[Daniel Perelstein]

Yeah — that's the thing though... I don't think I ever want one of my ops to do a super-panic... in the situation Chris described, I'd put a 1 second fade on everything, so it would only be for super-panic situations anyways.

But reasonable people may differ about it, of course... we are different designers and our needs / preferences are different. Which is why I think there will, ultimately, have to be some sort of preference setting in order to make us all happy. Or else we'll just customize our Panic settings according to our needs (i.e. Ted may choose 0 second fades / stops whereas I'd choose 1 second fades / stops).

Food for thought. Thanks everyone!

Dan

Daniel Perelstein                
Full-service music and sound for the theater

Musical Direction | Sound Design | Composition | Multi-Instrumentalist
Conducting, Arranging & Orchestrations, Vocal Coaching, Accompanying
www . danielperelstein . com

[Andy Leviss]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Ted Pallas <ted.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

> And then a super-panic, for when things actually just need to stop, all of
> them?

I call that a console mute group ;-)

> It happens sometimes, especially on shady old machines (I mean, I guess the
> stage manager's boyfriend's roommate's old white MacBook counts as a
> computer, but c'mon you guys...)

I see your white MacBook and raise you a G3 Pismo with a display that
has streaks in the blue and no red or green. But the show ran. (On v1,
of course...think it'd have an aneurysm if it even saw a 10.5 disc
come within 10'!)

--Andy

[Ted Pallas]

The big question here is "how fried was your CD burner?"

Ted Pallas
Live Media Design
Sandwich Construction Consultant
cell - 516 286 9661

Pardon the typos, sent from my Casio SK-1

[sam kusnetz]

TJ wrote:

> The big question here is "how fried was your CD burner?"

is that some kind of euphemism?

sk

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