[QLab] Video Cue

[Christopher Ashworth]

Thanks very much for this feedback Geoff!  This is extremely helpful.

The cross fades may take some doing; I haven't looked into that yet.   
The positioning and sizing, on the other hand, is nearly done.  (A  
lot of the code is actually already in the version you've got, but  
it's not accessible to you yet.  How's that for a tease.  :)  )

So, anyway, this is very helpful feedback, and thanks very much for  
taking the time to write it up.  Much appreciated.

Regards,
Chris

On Jan 12, 2007, at 3:45 PM, Geoff Peck wrote:
>
> I love the fact that I can select which screen to output the video  
> to. I have a MacPro with two nVidia 7300s, so I can have four  
> different outputs. I've tried all different combinations of video  
> and still images on the different outputs simultaneously and I have  
> not had a problem. The start and stop cues also work fine with the  
> video cue. I set my desktop image to plain black, so when it drops  
> out of the video clip it goes to black. This is where my first  
> request comes in: a video fade. The beauty of having a timeline  
> that can work on the fly is that timing in live shows is never the  
> same, so if a scene ends early I want to be able to fade out the  
> video early. Obviously if I had still background, I could make a  
> short video clip of the image fading to black and put that in the  
> cue list, but if I have dozens of images to show that's a huge  
> hassle to "pre-create" all the fades. Obviously an even better  
> option would be to be able to cross-fade two video clips. Want to  
> fade to black? Just cross-fade with a still image of black or any  
> color for that matter.
>
> The second request I have is that there be some way to set the size  
> and position of the video clip. The selection for whether or not to  
> maintain the aspect ratio or stretch the video is nice but what if  
> I want it to be just a small image on the left of the screen? Once  
> again that's doable now if I pre-compose all the images, but the  
> problem is when a director says can we make this a little smaller  
> and move it over here and it takes a few minutes to re-pre-compose  
> the image or video.
>
> That's it, all I need is cross-fading and positioning/sizing and I  
> could do everything I want with this. In the past few months I've  
> been looking for software to do just these simple tasks and I keep  
> finding things that do too much and as a result cost too much and  
> still require me to come up with workarounds to get the software to  
> respond to midi signals so Qlab can control it. In the mean time  
> I'll continue to test the new video cue.
>
> Thanks, Chris, for making a great piece of software and keep up the  
> good work!
>
> -Geoff