[QLab] Video Cue Update

[Rory Dale]

Chris,

This is awesome I can't wait for the final release with fades.  
Excellent work!

Rory

On Jan 30, 2007, at 5:17 PM, Christopher Ashworth wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Instead of forcing you to wait for the release candidate, I've
> decided to throw one more beta release of the Video Cue up for your
> inspection and review.
>
> That link again is:
>
> http://figure53.com/qlab/downloads/plugins/video/ 
> VideoCue.QLabPlugin.zip
>
> For this version you'll see the following additional features:
>
> - Option to play the videos back in a resizable window.
> - Fade Cues can now be used on Video Cues to fade their audio.  (Only
> the master channel applies.)
> - Some important bug fixes that make it more stable and make the
> preview window work better.
>
> You'll see there is also a control to set the opacity of each video.
> The last feature I'll be adding before the official release is a
> "Video Fade Cue" that will allow you to fade that opacity just like
> you do the audio volume.
>
> *** IMPORTANT:  Old Video Cues you've saved prior to this will load
> with an opacity of zero.  You won't see them until you adjust it back
> up to full visibility.  New cues will of course start out completely
> visible. ***
>
> There is one other important change in the way the Video Cue works:
> loading a cue no longer captures the display.  That is done when you
> actually fire the cue.
>
> Why make this change?  For one thing, this makes it much less
> confusing when you open up a workspace that has a Video Cue in the
> first slot.  (No more "Holy crap my screen just went black and I have
> no mouse!!! WTF!!" )  But I also believe it is a cleaner design in
> terms of how you build your workspaces.  It removes the confusion
> about how to keep a display "captured" over a series of video files
> by reducing your options to one simple approach:  just pick an image
> file (JPG, PNG, GIF, whatever) you want to be your background and
> drop that in as your first cue.  Walla: instant static background for
> all your videos.  You can go with simple black, or whatever you
> want.  And of course you can change it as you go by dropping in other
> images.
>
> You'll see that Video Cues can layer on top of each other, so you can
> build up a series of images and movies, and have picture-in-picture,
> etc.  Go wild.  Be creative.  You can even use all those animated
> GIFs from your old 1990s web pages that you've been dying to put in a
> show.  Go on, you know you want to.
>
> I'm pretty excited about the possibilities here, and will try to get
> the final version (with video fading) done as soon as I can.  In the
> meantime I am eager to hear how it goes and if you have any  
> suggestions.
>
> Cheers,
> Christopher
>
> P.S.:  For you brave souls that already started using the Video Cue
> in live shows, I've left the old version of the cue in that folder:
>
> http://figure53.com/qlab/downloads/plugins/video/
>
> Just in case I screwed something up, you can always fall back on a
> known set of bugs.  ;)
>
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