Typewriter for 700+ cues

[Bas Haut]

Hi there,

I am working on a show where all dialogues of the show are ’subtitled’ to an LED screen in a "typewriter-like” design.

I used the ’Typewriter’ show file from the QLab Cookbook which works great.

My only issue is that the script refers to a unique ‘cuenumber’, where our show has 700+ lines, which would make it tedious to prepare a workspace for it. I wouldn’t want anyone to manually change the cue number for each line in every script cues.

I was wondering if there would be a more elegant solution where the script cue (which could have a unique q number) could refer to the only “Text” cue within the group they’re into? Or any other suggestion?

Would you have any tips for me?

Many thanks!

Here is the script:

set thecuenumber to "T1" -- cue number of Titles cue this script controls

set speed to 0.02 -- gap between typed characters in seconds

set charPerLine to 48 -- Number of characters per line

tell application id "com.figure53.QLab.4" to tell front workspace

   stop cue thecuenumber

   set thetext to notes of cue thecuenumber

   set thecount to number of characters in thetext

   set the text of cue thecuenumber to " "

   start cue thecuenumber

   repeat with i from 1 to thecount

       set thechar to text i thru i of thetext

       set thetype to text 1 thru i of thetext

       set custom message of cue "LIVE" to "/cue/" & thecuenumber & "/liveText \"" & thetype & "\""

       delay speed

       if i = thecount then start cue "FADE"

       delay 1.0E-4

       start cue "LIVE"

   end repeat

end tell

[aroom]

Hello,

Not a direct answer to your question, but I was wondering if you knew the existence of this software for subtitles:

http://glypheo.com

Free and made by the team from Millumin. You can syphon/NDI it into QLab. Maybe the workspace is more convenient. 

bye

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[Bas Haut]

Thanks,

I know glypheo but I am not aware it can have a “typewriter-like” animation on it?

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[aroom]

I guess you can’t. I should have read your message more thoroughly.

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[micpool]

This should work. You need to set the triggers of each typewriter group to stop peers 

set speed to 0.02 -- gap between typed characters in seconds
set charPerLine to 48 -- Number of characters per line
tell application id "com.figure53.QLab.4" to tell front workspace

    set thescript to last item of (cues whose (q type is "script" and running is true))
    set thegroup to parent of thescript
    set theTextcue to first cue of thegroup whose q type is "Text"
    set thestring to uniqueID of theTextcue
    stop cue "LIVE"
    set thetext to notes of theTextcue

    set thecount to number of characters in thetext

    set the text of theTextcue to " "
    start theTextcue

    repeat with i from 1 to thecount
        set thechar to text i thru i of thetext
        set thetype to text 1 thru i of thetext

        set custom message of cue "LIVE" to "/cue_id/" & thestring & "/liveText \"" & thetype & "\""
        delay speed

        delay 1.0E-4
        start cue "LIVE"
    end repeat
end tell