Adding an audio cue and fade out cue in a single step

[David Pallett]

Hi,

I'm new to QLab as I've only just got my first MacBook.

I've had a play around and now worked out how to add an audio cue, add a fade, target it, set it's level to fade to (usually zero) and tell it to stop on completion.

Obviously that takes a minute or so every time to set those parameters.  Is there a way in which I can click a single button to insert an audio cue and fade cue with it's parameters pre-set?

Apologies if it's a really stupid question, I'm trying to convert from Show Cue Systems on a Windows PC!

[Joshua Langman]

See script for generating fade cues here:

https://figure53.hostedwiki.co/pages/QLab%20Scripts%20and%20Macros

[micpool]

Hi David

Welcome to Qlab

There are a variety of methods for doing what you describe, but there is no built in function that will do it with a single keystroke or mouse click.

Interestingly all the methods take between 3 and 7 seconds depending on dexterity of operator and spec of computer

The simplest is just using the mouse. Click the fade icon, drag the target cue to the fade, click the master fader to turn it yellow on the levels tab, click the stop box (my time 5s)

The next would use keyboard shortcuts. cmd-6 for the fade/ T to put the cursor on the target/Type the cue number of the target/ enter/ grab the mouse/ click the master fader to turn it yellow on the levels tab, click the stop box (my time 6s)

You can cut and paste an existing fade and retarget it by dragging a new cue on top of it (my time 4 s)

If you have a paid for version then you can get into the wonderful world of applescripts

Basically you would create a script cue with a Hotkey say ctrl-F and paste something like this script from Rich Walsh  into the script tab

set userDuration to 10

tell front workspace

set originalCue to last item of (selected as list)

set originalCueType to q type of originalCue

if originalCueType is in {"Group", "Audio", "Video"} then

make type "Fade"

set newCue to last item of (selected as list)

set cue target of newCue to originalCue

set duration of newCue to userDuration

newCue setLevel row 0 column 0 db -120

if originalCueType is not "Video" then

set stop target when done of newCue to true

end if

set q name of newCue to "Fade out: " & q name of originalCue

else if originalCueType is "Fade" then

set originalCueTarget to cue target of originalCue

make type "Fade"

set newCue to last item of (selected as list)

set cue target of newCue to originalCueTarget

set duration of newCue to userDuration

newCue setLevel row 0 column 0 db -120

if q type of originalCueTarget is not "Video" then

set stop target when done of newCue to true

end if

set q name of newCue to "Fade out: " & q name of originalCueTarget

end if

end tell

You might keep any such script in a separate cue list and eventually you will probably have a template workspace with a whole library of these scripts.

Now all you have to do is select the cue you want to fade with the mouse and press ctrl-F (or whatever hotkey you have set) My time 3s.

So in reality I think you can programme  around  10 fades a minute and using one method over another might save you 5 or 10 minutes a day.

The fade script cue on a hotkey  is a really useful tool and is my standard method.

Mic