This longer video (split into two parts) takes a tour of the audio tools, organising and playing back cues, setting auto follow ons, adjusting levels and automating fades.

Note: There are a few specific references to our facilities at the University, you can ignore those. The first tutorial covers a look some of the things that QLab can do, it’s interface and how to find your way around it. Qlab Introduction – The Software and Interface ( You don’t have to watch the tutorials at the small embedded size, you can fullscreen them). With that in mind, On Stage Lighting has some QLab video screencasts to get you started. I wouldn’t claim to be an expert on the use of QLab, my speciality as an educator is explaining things in simple terms and quite often people that are starting to learn a piece of software don’t need complex and technical tutorials, they just need to know the basics. Running on the Apple Mac OSX platform, QLab organises and fires audio and video content, can be used to build up soundscapes and automate the playback of recorded media. Yes, it’s free and you can actually use it to playback your audio cues on a real show!! And, it’s basic and very usable free version is, well, FREE. QLab is a regular feature on many professional performances around the world and is one of those pieces of software that seems quite “simple” in operation, yet manages to be extremely powerful. The recent release of the On Stage Lighting Vectorworks tutorials for beginners proved to be very popular and valuable for many.Īs we believe in teaching current industry practice, our recorded sound and video playback system currently centres around the popular cueing software QLab from Figure 53. In order to streamline delivery of teaching I regularly use screencast video tutorials, particularly when it comes to learning software. Moving From QLab 2 To QLab 3 – What’s New?ĭon’t forget our QLab For Beginners Online Course – Learn QLab Now! Legacy QLab Version 2 Video TutorialsĪlthough my original specialism is stage lighting design and programming, these days I break rank in my professional life and my current gig requires the teaching of many areas of technical production in performance including digital media creation and projection. The original version of this post is from back in the days of QLab 2 but since then, On Stage Lighting has a few more recent posts QLab topics Looking for QLab Training? I run an online beginners course for QLab, CLICK HERE to find out more. Looking at the popular show running software, we take you through the interface and working with audio cues before moving on to playing back video and other visual media. On Stage Lighting presents a few QLab video tutorials for beginners.

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