Karaoke lyrics

[José Miguel Mayoral]

Hi, I need to set up a karaoke system. A band always plays the same setlist, and I want to display the lyrics on a banner. I'd like to have play and stop controls and be able to speed up and slow down using the trackpad or keyboard. I found Qprompt software, but it doesn't allow fullscreen playback or desktop control. How could I do this in QLab? 

Thanks

[micpool]

If the band are inconsistent with the tempos of their set list and you need to control the speed of lyric display manually, why not just do a cue at the end of each line to bring up the next line (or shift everything up a line)

This would seem to be much simpler than doing it with faster/slower buttons to control the speed of the scroll

Mic

[José Miguel Mayoral]

That's a good idea. I'm testing it with the videos I have, and they're in sync most of the time. Just pausing and playing, or even fast-forwarding or rewinding the timeline, is enough.

[Paul]

I would use OSC to change the video cue playback rate incrementally; this could be done with Network cues with hotkey triggers or from StreamDeck / Companion. If you make the increments small enough you'll have good control and shouldn't be noticeable to the audience.

to increase the playback rate

/cue/{cue num}/rate/+ 0.2

to decrease the playback rate

/cue/{cue num}/rate/- 0.2

If you number all your kayak lyrics cues K1, K2 then you could use

/cue/K*/rate/+ 0.2

providing you remember to reset the rate before starting the next song lyrics video

/cue/K*/rate 1

hope this helps