How to find only Video cues in Cue List

[Tommy]

Hi!

I have a question about the search function within the Cue List.

I'm using ⌘+F to search for '.mov' in an attempt to find all the Video cues in the list. However, the search results also include the Fade cues that are associated with each Video cues.

Is there a way to highlight only the Video cues, or alternatively, to exclude the Fade cues from the search?

Tommy

[luckydave]

After searching, click to Select Found cues, and then click Done. In the Basics tab of the Inspector, use the menu at the top left to narrow down the selection to only video cues. Alternately, use Command+A to select all cues, and narrow down to only video cues in that same inspector menu. This menu is available any time multiple cues are selected, and can help greatly with batch editing operations.

[Tommy]

Thank you for the quick response!

By expanding all the groups and using the 'Select only Video cues' option after selecting everything with ⌘A, I was able to do exactly what I wanted! I needed to bulk edit some Geometry values, so thank you!

By the way, is it possible to adjust the 'Translation Y' values of all selected Video cues, adding +100 relatively to each existing value all at once? Or to multiply the existing 'Scale' values of the selected cues by 1.5, again relatively, all at once?

[micpool]

Only with a script.

e.g.

tell application id "com.figure53.QLab.5" to tell front workspace

set theCues to (selected as list)

repeat with eachCue in theCues

set the scale x of eachCue to (scale x of eachCue) * 1.5

set the translation x of eachCue to (translation x of eachCue) + 100

end repeat

end tell

[Tommy]

Thanks as always, Mic! Your script worked perfectly!

Since the items and values I want to change can vary from time to time, it would be awesome to have a generic script readily available in the Cart that allows for selecting items from a dropdown, and then using a dialog box to add, subtract, multiply, or divide from the existing values whenever needed!

Tommy

[micpool]

--modify geometry of selected cues

set theG to (choose from list {"scale x", "scale y", "translation x", "translation y"}) as text

set theVal to text returned of (display dialog "Value to multiply scale, or add to translation of selected cues" default answer "")

tell application id "com.figure53.QLab.5" to tell front workspace

repeat with eachcue in (selected as list)

if theG is "scale x" then

set the scale x of eachcue to (scale x of eachcue) * theVal

else if theG is "scale y" then

set the scale y of eachcue to (scale y of eachcue) * theVal

else if theG is "translation x" then

set the translation x of eachcue to (translation x of eachcue) + theVal

else if theG is "translation y" then

set the translation y of eachcue to (translation y of eachcue) + theVal

end if

end repeat

end tell

[Tommy]

Thanks Mic, it generally works as expected!
Based on this script, I'll try to modify it to add more parameters that can be changed, and to freely add, subtract, multiply, and divide!

[micpool]

I didn’t add subtract and divide because….

A negative value added results in a subtraction.

Any common division for scaling has an equivalent decimal multiplication factor e.g divide by 4 is functionally the same as multiply by 0.25. 

Mic