Qlab file sharing?

[ethan....@gmail.com]

Does anyone know a way that I can share my QLab file with my director, without them having to download QLab themselves?

[Taylor Glad]

What do you want the director to get out of your QLab file?

I don't personally find it very inconvenient to download QLab, but if you are sharing your file with them off of a thumb drive, you can just stick QLab on the drive and run it off of there to open it. It's just under 34mb.

Sharing the QLab bundle with your director will let them see all the audio and video files.

But if your director wants to see the cue list the same way you see it in QLab, then the QLab app is a pretty good way to do that.

You can also select all your QLab cues, copy, and then past onto a spreadsheet. But if you have some longer note cues, then those can behave a little oddly in formatting there.

But QLab doesn't have any export options to a spreadsheet or anything like that.

[Sam Kusnetz]

Hi Ethan

It cannot be done. The only way to open a QLab file is with QLab.

Best
Sam

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[Jake Perrine]

Without seeming like Dr. Obvious, I have sent screen shots of my Qlab file to people who needed to know, and that provides a lot of information in and of itself.  I did not know about the "paste to spreadsheet" option though!  That will be my new favorite!

[m...@stevensokulski.com]

Without having an answer to the all-important question of "what do you want the director be able to do" I'll offer up this:

https://github.com/okofish/qlab-html

It's quite out of date, but I don't think QLab's OSC dictionary has changed dramatically so parts of it might still work. If your goal is provide a way for the director to read through cues and get a feel for what happens when and why, this might be the right answer.

Additionally, the free version of QLab will let the director see everything that is in the file, regardless of license. The director wouldn't be able to fire off some types of cues without the requisite license, but it does provide some nice visibility.