Archive for the 'Cool' Category

QLab controls Blaze

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Memo Akten wrote to tell how he is using QLab to coordinate this awesome streetdance show. Check it out:

Blaze from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

The show consisted of 18 sections (group cues), each with its own MTC. Some of these cues would roll onto the next automatically, others were triggered manually after audience applause or [...]

QLab feeding Clear Com

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Lighting designer Matt Mills recently told us about a creative way he is using QLab in his lighting work:

Hello, I was looking at your site and thought I’d tell you how I am using your product. I am the Lighting Director for the band Daughtry and I use QLab to call all my spotlight cues. [...]

Sighting: QLab at the Olympics!

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Yes! The Olympics! It’s now officially public that QLab is running both the live audience and broadcast audio for the 2010 Olympic medal ceremonies! We’ve known for a while, and wanted to share the great news, but our source didn’t have the authority to give us permission to do so. But, oh [...]

QLab + scripting + custom software = win!

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Søren Knud sent us this short video showing an awesome combination of QLab with custom video projection software from Ole Kristensen and Jonas Jongejan. Very cool stuff guys! (This is all for a show with Recoil Performance Group.)

(Please note: If the F-word is not welcome in your workspace, then this video is Not [...]

Figure 53 in the Baltimore Sun

Friday, January 8th, 2010

On Wednesday the business section of the Baltimore Sun ran a great article about QLab and Figure 53.

The reporter, Gus Sentementes, also posted extra notes from the interview on his blog. This includes a video of me attempting to summarize QLab in 60 seconds. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Thanks Gus! (And thanks [...]

Congratulations to the 2009 Tony winners in Sound Design!

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Big ups to Gregory Clarke and Paul Arditti who won the 2009 Tony awards for sound design! Gregory bagged “Best Sound Design of a Play”, and Paul took home “Best Sound Design of a Musical”.

I am, of course, contractually obligated to mention that both of these designs were powered by QLab. I’m also [...]

Please welcome Sean Dougall to Figure 53

Monday, June 1st, 2009

I’m extremely excited to announce the arrival of Sean Dougall as a full-time member of the Figure 53 team.

If you have used QLab 2, you have already benefitted from Sean’s skill. He designed and built QLab’s SMPTE timecode synchronization mechanism and the entire license and authorization system.

I feel extremely lucky to welcome Sean to [...]

Jason Tratta releases QAutoSaver

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Check out this cool new application from Jason Tratta:

It’s one of those great little apps that does one thing and does it well: it uses the new scripting hooks in QLab 2 to provide customizable periodic backups of your workspace.

It’s even smart enough to skip a save if you’re in the middle of running [...]

Comparing QLab 1 and 2 – A Real World Experience

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Mark Hartshorn has been sending me feedback since the early days of QLab development. I love getting emails from him, because it usually means he’s put together some exceptionally thoughtful suggestions about how I can improve the program.

This time, however, Mark simply had a report about how the workflow in version 2 compares to [...]

New v2 Showcases

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Big thanks to Saul Slezas and Dave Mickey for the first two showcases featuring QLab 2!

Saul reports on his award-winning high school production. It is so awesome to see students like Saul who are able to make something like this because of the new rental licenses. That makes me happy.

Dave Mickey (now making [...]

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