How to import multiple audio cues at once, bug with associated ctrl-d shortcut
Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2017 4:58 pm
Hello,
since a few weeks I'm working for a small theater here in Vienna, and I'm looking for software to run audio, video and maybe at a later time light cues too (we're running lights from a Compulite Spark 4D there currently), possibly all from one program on the same laptop, a 2012 13" Macbook. It has Ableton Live 8.1 on it, and the free versions of QLab3 and 4, and both of them can do the audio part, it would just be so much easier for us to be able and run audio and video from the same box and program. So I tried and installed current QLC+.
For now I tried to recreate an audio cuelist from the previous show. That soundtrack has around 25 music cues to run, and another 50 short text snippets that need to form a dialog with spoken sentences from the actors on stage. When that show was on play, this macbook was operated on stage by a video technician, so I used Linux Show Player on my private laptop with good success for running the audio, and now I want to look into trying with QLC+.
It seems I have to import the soundfiles to audio functions one by one, by using the according icon in the functions tab. There are following issues with that method, in my experience:
- you cannot select more than a single file in the file chooser. On the one hand his makes perfect sense, as I'm creating a single audio function, but it would be just so elegant to select all the files and have them imported as separate functions in one go...
- trying to speed that up by using the ctrl-d key command as stated in the context menu, brings up an alert message that talks about an ambiguous key command and tells me to open menu->settings->define key commands, but unless i'm blind such a thing doesn't exist. the manual doesn't seem to cover this and shows ctrl-d as a shortcut to "dump DMX values"...
- the file chooser doesn't remember the previous file location, instead it restarts at qlcplus' working directory each time you call it, thus forcing me to navigate there for each single media file I want to create a function for.
Importing 70+ audio files one by one in this way is cumbersome and time consuming, so let me request a batch import feature. How difficult might it be to implement this, or even simpler, drag and drop of audio and video files to the functions tab?
Or am I expecting too much? How do you other theater guys deal with this? It's a small privately funded theater on tight budget as always, so we're trying to manage our work times as efficiently as possible...
Thanks for this great program and all the ongoing work on it, it got so much better and more stable during the last two years!
Edgar
since a few weeks I'm working for a small theater here in Vienna, and I'm looking for software to run audio, video and maybe at a later time light cues too (we're running lights from a Compulite Spark 4D there currently), possibly all from one program on the same laptop, a 2012 13" Macbook. It has Ableton Live 8.1 on it, and the free versions of QLab3 and 4, and both of them can do the audio part, it would just be so much easier for us to be able and run audio and video from the same box and program. So I tried and installed current QLC+.
For now I tried to recreate an audio cuelist from the previous show. That soundtrack has around 25 music cues to run, and another 50 short text snippets that need to form a dialog with spoken sentences from the actors on stage. When that show was on play, this macbook was operated on stage by a video technician, so I used Linux Show Player on my private laptop with good success for running the audio, and now I want to look into trying with QLC+.
It seems I have to import the soundfiles to audio functions one by one, by using the according icon in the functions tab. There are following issues with that method, in my experience:
- you cannot select more than a single file in the file chooser. On the one hand his makes perfect sense, as I'm creating a single audio function, but it would be just so elegant to select all the files and have them imported as separate functions in one go...
- trying to speed that up by using the ctrl-d key command as stated in the context menu, brings up an alert message that talks about an ambiguous key command and tells me to open menu->settings->define key commands, but unless i'm blind such a thing doesn't exist. the manual doesn't seem to cover this and shows ctrl-d as a shortcut to "dump DMX values"...
- the file chooser doesn't remember the previous file location, instead it restarts at qlcplus' working directory each time you call it, thus forcing me to navigate there for each single media file I want to create a function for.
Importing 70+ audio files one by one in this way is cumbersome and time consuming, so let me request a batch import feature. How difficult might it be to implement this, or even simpler, drag and drop of audio and video files to the functions tab?
Or am I expecting too much? How do you other theater guys deal with this? It's a small privately funded theater on tight budget as always, so we're trying to manage our work times as efficiently as possible...
Thanks for this great program and all the ongoing work on it, it got so much better and more stable during the last two years!
Edgar
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