A Sound and Video Production Company
TL;DR: Speed up your workflow – and your learning in QLab – by making a template. Here is mine. The Story: I created a template that I use to start all of my shows, and contains the most commonly used scripts of mine. It isn’t cluttered with EVERYTHING I’ve learned, just something to help me …
Continue reading “What’s in my Qlab show template? (Templates, part 2)”
TL;DR: Make a template of a show with all of the common scripts and cues that go into it. The Story: After I did a couple of shows with QLab, I quickly saw that there were a number of things that would repeatedly be useful, like my post about volume control. I was also learning new …
The following is an email that I sent a couple of years ago, when I was advising on the video design for a production of Laramie Project. This is typically a video-heady show, and they wanted to incorporate some live cameras in the show, as well as learn Qlab. I still get a lot of …
We here at Rocktzar have been SWAMPED for months. The garden is full of weeds, the blog has been neglected, and I’m pretty sure that was once a cheese sandwich that I chiseled out of the fridge. Mary and I worked together on a few shows this summer, mostly as props & sound, respectively (though …
TL;DR: Setting the computer’s headphone output volume so that it’s the same every time, using Qlab. The Story: There are so many things to set and remember at the top of a show. Volume settings for your computer shouldn’t have to be one of them. Scenario One: You’re running the show on a laptop which …
TL;DR: One more week of introduction to Qlab. The Story: So, now we know what all of the buttons do. Let’s look at the actual Cue List, where we spend much of our programming time. The Esoteric Bit: Here is a sample show from a concert I designed lighting and video for: The first column shows …
TL;DR: QLab is for more than just playing back audio and video files – and easy to use. The Story: I use QLab for almost all of the live shows I work on these days. Even if it isn’t totally necessary upon first look, it provides for me a unified user interface as I cut …
TL;DR: Qlab is supposedly a powerful application – but why is Brian spending a year to write about it? The Story: As anyone who has worked with me on a live show will attest, I am a HUGE Qlab junkie. I try to use it for everything – partly just to test the limits of …
Good morning! Starting next week, we are going to host a series here on Rocktzar.com, all about using Qlab in your show (with a couple of other production tips and topics thrown in along the way). Over the course of the next year or so, there will be weekly posts on how you can better program your …
Over the course of April and May, both Mary and I have been working at Yale, both in the Electrics (Lighting) department. She has been hired on as staff/Assistant Master Electrician for the Carlotta Festival, while I have been contracted in as the Master Electrician for the Yale Baroque Opera Project, “La Didone.” This means that …
