V3 Loading Next Cue Behavior

[Adam]

Hi Guys,

In V3 I no longer see the next cue sequence has loaded as it does in V2. Is something different going on that you have implemented and can explain or is this a bug?

--Adam

[Adam]

I should add, after GO has been pressed!

[Christopher Ashworth]

On May 22, 2013, at 9:25 PM, Adam <stilt...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> In V3 I no longer see the next cue sequence has loaded as it does in V2. Is something different going on that you have implemented and can explain or is this a bug?

Hi Adam,

Thanks for the question. This is a change in how v3 works. It no longer pre-loads the entire cue sequence.

Loading audio and video in v3 is much faster than v2, and all cues that are programmed to play together will be synchronized by the playback engine.

Thus, pre-loading is now much less important, and should be rarely necessary. As my teammate Sam put it, "loading is now a sometimes food".

This also allows us to avoid the crashes that could happen when people created long sequences of video cues, e.g. a slideshow of many still images. Now a sequence of many stills will create no problems.

You can still use Load Cues or the hotkey command to load a cue if you find a scenario where it is helpful, but usually it should not be necessary.

Best,
Chris

[Adam]

Awesome! Thanks Chris!

This is wonderful! Brilliant job to you all!

--Adam

[jack Booth]

Hi Chris,

Just had a bug with v3, triggered an audio cue but Qlab didn't play the start of the file. It caught up and resumed part way through the file.

We worked around this in v2 by turning off garenteed sync but that dosent seem to be an option

Many thanks,
Jack