[QLab] audio routing for video cues

[Christopher Ashworth]

On Jan 8, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Ryan J. Gastelum wrote:

> Would there be a way to have some sort of SMPTE clock that both types
> of cues could be fired off of and follow.  Sorry if this has already
> been covered.

It's a smart idea, but there's a piece of the puzzle that is hidden  
from you: the way I've built things is designed primarily to treat  
synchronization on a cue-by-cue basis.  In other words, I made a  
conscious decision to design it so that anything that happens inside  
a single cue should be expected to be synchronized (e.g. different  
channels of audio in a Sound Cue), but beyond that there aren't any  
expectations of synchronization.  (e.g. between separate cues).

This makes things simpler, which I believe in turn makes things more  
stable, yet still covers a majority of what anyone might need to do.

Now this isn't to say that I won't add things like firing cues off  
SMPTE time--I plan to do that--but that I don't presently foresee  
adding any mechanisms that forces all cues onto the same internal  
timeline beyond the moment that they are first fired.

-C