Today I had a school in for their xmas show... they brought in a load of video files... different types, aspects, sizes, various artifacts etc.
So we ran the matinee using; Quicktime, Windows Media Player and Real Player on their laptop. Which worked, but I was left guessing where the end of the playback was and trying to open the projector shutter just as the OSD was fading out. Ho humm, not stressful but really was a bodge.
I thought that there must be a better way... I've seen people using QLab and knew it did video.. just have never touched it myself. And here was an opportunity begging for the control it should give.
Awesome, didn't even need their manual.
Highly recommended... and their support, well nearly instantaneous... although I had sent them a thank you email not a bug report! ;)
I'm going to be using this a lot now I suspect.
QLab: http://figure53.com/qlab/
Ran up QLab again last weekend... was just the ticket.
ReplyDeleteMainly I was plotting LX for a 50min show of 6 acts but QLab is so easy to load up that whilst I was plotting the lights with the choreographers I was was simultaneously ripping and cueing up the sound and video for a dress run... which went perfectly! :)