Video Cues

Selecting the Video tab after + on the home screen will display the above screen. The Save, Save/Add, and Exit buttons are common to all of the 4 tabs. Save will either add a new cue to the list or store any changes to an existing cue. Save/Add does the same, but returns to this screen instead of the main window. Exit returns to the main window.

These are the first 3 columns of the cue list. That being the cue sequence number, the stage manager cue call, and the cue description. As with all cues, the color of the cue description in the list can be set. Up to five video players can be connected. The Screen selection sends this cue to the desired player.

This is the file name and location of the picture or video to be played. The button will bring up a file browser. Video files can be a format of  .mpg, .avi, .divx, .wmv, .mov, .mp4, .mpv, .mkv, .m4v, .mpeg, .vob, .jpg, .jpeg, .jfif, .bmp, .tif .gif, .png.

The trigger for playing or running the cue can be either when the cue is selected,  the Play key, as set from the Options menu, the time position of an already running cue, or a time of day. The number of a playing cue goes into the Cue # field and the time position, in tenths of a second, goes into Time field. If the Cue # is 0 and the Time is entered as hh:mm, the cue will play at that time. Hours greater than 12 are afternoon and evening, under 12 for morning. For the cue you are editing to be triggered this way in use, it must be the current selected cue in the cue list.

Cue Action is one of: Play, Pause, Resume, Fade Out, Stop, or Fade to Pause.  Play requires a video file name, the others need the cue number of the affected cue. Cue Advance is one of: NO Auto Advance, Adv at End, Adv at Start, or Adv at Load.

When played, the video or picture will fade in to the levels set in the sliders over the time, in seconds, in the Fade field.

A video may be looped from end to start. Or it may crossfade in from the previous video or picture. The previous will be faded out over the same time as the fade in.

The video player only has settings for "As-Is" and "Stretch" for how the picture or video appears in its window. To have something appear in a certain place or a special size, you can set the percentage across and down the image will appear and the percentage of its normal size it will be. The playback speed of a video can be set to, for example, make the clouds move more slowly or match a dance to its backdrop.

  The up and down arrows are used to move the cue being edited up or down in the cue list. A number can be entered directly and the current cue will move to that line.