Group Video fade up

[carville...@gmail.com]

Hello,

A timeline group of video cues (15 different images on different stages)

We would like to fade them up as a group. If we set them to opactiy 0 and then fade the group up, nothing happens. (we can make 15 different fade ups, but that is a bit cumbersome)

If all the pics are up we can fade the group out no problem.

Tried fading the group down to 1% and then fade it up, doesn't work.

Are groups able to be faded up?

We have work around solutions, just trying to figure out if this should work or not?

Qlab 5.4.10

Mac Studio M1

[Sam Kusnetz]

There are two things you need to remember when fading the opacity of a Group of Video cues:

1. Fade cues need to be in relative mode when they target Group cues.
2. Opacity is on a percentage scale.

When opacity is zero, and you use a relative fade, you can’t get anywhere since 0 multiplied by anything is still zero.

Set your Video cues to an opacity of 1%, then set the Fade cue to fade opacity up by 10,000%.

1% x 10000% = 1, which equals 100% opacity.

Best

Sam

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[Gregg Carville]

Thank you Sam, I knew group cues were relative, but did not figure out the 10000 %, mainly because I mistakenly figured it did not go above 100. 

Gregg

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[David Crone]

How would you recommend handling this for a group of audio cues? 

I figured out that I can load a dummy audio cue (any audio cue with levels set to zero) and use the Duck feature on that dummy cue to take all running audio cues to some level, and restore them to previous levels when this dummy cue ends. But, this ducks ALL running cues, not just a set in a specific group. 

Thoughts?

[Sam Kusnetz]

Hi David

 

A few ways to do this…

 

1. Just make a bunch of Fades, one for each Audio cue. That’s what I do so that I can have exact control over timing and levels.
2. Set all the Audio cues to a very quiet level, but not silent (eg. -59) and then use one Fade cue targeting the Group to raise the level relatively. So if the goal level is, say, -15, the relative Fade cue needs to be set to +44 to get the Audio cues from -59 to -15.
3. Use the integrated fade curve on each Audio cue. You can make the curve for one cue, then copy that cue, select the others, and paste cue properties, then select “integrated fade curve” and paste the curve onto the other Audio cues.
4. Use a Fade cue to target the patch that the Audio cues use, and directly control the output level there. This is a little risky since it will have an effect on your entire workspace.

 

I hope this helps!

Sam

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