It also means no Intensity palettes, something that even our show with no moving lights, could benefit from. Although not a deal breaker for getting light on stage, this does make dealing with colour mixing less friendly than most lighting controls. Palettes in QLabĪt the time of writing, there is no specific palette functionality in QLab 4. You can also fire different cue lists or parts of lists from other lists – just like a console only with no writing special macros. You can make different cue lists of just lighting cues if you like. QLab deals in multiple cue lists already for any cue, not just lighting. The lighting Groups interface does currently get rather busy, particularly when you add in colour mixing kit. I’m more likely to use this interactive interface, rather than command line which is obviously a familiar way of working to many theatre users but I find even the best command line interfaces less intuitive than an interactive select/adjust method. I prefer the Tiles and drag interface rather than the Sliders. Selecting lighting groups is easy in the Light Dashboard. Selecting groups, either via the screen or by entering a name/label, is going to be a lot more user friendly than typing in long winded command line arrays of channel numbers.ĭon’t get lighting groups confused with the QLab Group Cue, which is another important feature that I’ll explain in a lighting control context later. In QLab 4, I would advise relying heavily on Groups and even put specials in Groups of 1 fixture if you need to. This is important, even in a basic lighting control interface, and reduces the amount of effort it takes to select lots of fixtures at once.
QLAB ALTERNATIVE PATCH
Suffice to say, you can patch up your dimmers and LEDs. Instead of rehearsing the user manual, I’m not going to walk you through patching fixtures, labelling or getting Art-Net working. Lets say you have a theatre stacked show with 96 dimmers and some LED RGBA units and go from there. Don’t expect to have an easy time controlling complex moving lights just yet. The current QLab lighting functions are best suited to control of generic single channel entities such as dimmers or some basic colour mixing fixed units like LED wash lights. Instead, lets look at what we could do in programming and cueing and relate some of those things to conventional lighting programming practices. This means that if you are expecting all your favourite tools and workflows from the Grand Hog Titan Ti, you are going to be disappointed. Let’s be clear, QLab lighting control has been released as what you might call the MVP – Minimum Viable Product. This has great potential, but what if you know lighting control but have never programmed QLab? Today, I’ll going to run through a few potential steps to programming the lighting system for a show using QLab only and not relying on external triggering of your favourite lighting console via MIDI or OSC.
QLAB ALTERNATIVE PLUS
So, QLab now contains a lighting control interface plus Art-Net output capabilities. Following the release of QLab 4, On Stage Lighting presents some suggestions for lighting workflows aimed at users who may be unfamiliar with programming QLab and its core concepts.
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