In my opinion it's kinda bad practice to plan to use {Panic} as part of your show flow. I would use a Fade cue with "Stop target when done" checked. that way you can still have the panic time be something that will actually stop things pretty quickly if you need to. For this simple of a show I guess panic is ok, but as things get more advanced panicing can break lots of things. It's best to think of QLab as a list of actions, as opposed to a list of sounds, of which 'play sound' is just one of many types of actions.
How would you suggest laying things out? My workflow has has served me well for this simple setup, but what would provide more flexibility in your opinion?@@il_moe
@@MichaelCurtisAudio I use fade cues and pre and post wait to get things to work seamlessly. Sometimes I start the music first and have a fade down cue to duck it and auto follow into the VO, and another auto follow to fade it back up while talent walks on stage. I’ll finish it with a fade and stop cue that I trigger manually. Really depends on what the show/producer requires and how complex it is.
I am gonna take partial credit for you making this video seeing as I just asked you about this a couple weeks ago. Super informative and I am more excited to dive into it now.
Lovely, thank you! Personally I’d love to see how you are using companion for your workflow! Also I’d love to see how you implement „ducking“ and fade features of qlab thank you!
Thanks Michael - some great tips in here, and in the comments. I have a multi-day conference coming up and it should be a good opportunity to put this into practice!
I just had to teach myself QLab, and this was a nice refresher! A company I work with is using the paid version right now in tandem with stream decks and a lighting console as well. We have stream decks setup around the fairgrounds for actors to trigger sound and lighting cues which fire back at the control room where I control audio. It was a super fun and challenging thing to setup. I agree about not using panic cues, that was a mistake I learned as well. It’s always best to reference a fade cue. Especially in my scenario where multiple audio cues are playing at the same time. For example we might want an actor to press the fade out cue for their dance music, but not fade out background music in another area. The panic cue would fade out all music vs just fading out a specific audio track.
Great to see you covering this. Are you using strictly the free version or is the Audio package needed for some of what you're doing? I'm not very familiar with QLab (other than knowing what it is). I've used Farrago some, mostly for a beauty pageant that is in our venue each summer...I use it for the run-of-show music and the talent tracks for the contestants. I know QLab would do the same (possibly better, possibly about the same). Anyway, looking forward to seeing more on this series. Also, where do you typically source your royalty free music from?
Thanks, Mark! I've got the paid version, but like Nathan said you can use the stereo out version for free. I've sourced my royalty free music from Artlist.io
