zatchmo

In an effort to make things as simple and consistant as possible, we want to minimize the controls to simply hitting GO on the lighting console to fire all projection cues. What we figured out today was (like you mentioned) playing the video on an aux timeline, and having control cues in the main timeline to pause / resume the video. To fade it out, we used an additional aux timeline that fades in a black image over the video timeline, essentially "fading out" the video. It seems to be doing what we needed, but in a backwards way. I do wish Watchout would handle cueing a little easier. It seems that something like a fadeout on cue should be much easier to accomplish without having to use multiple timelines or external devices. Maybe us in the theatre world are just used to equipment that operates by hitting GO... I would love a "Fade Out" control cue. Thanks for your input. Zach

Thanks for your suggestions. Going with your first paragrapgh, and without getting any additional equipment, is it possible to fade out a video cue from a separate timeline using MIDI show control? Thanks.

Hi all. Is it possible to "freeze" or pause a video during free run? We're doing a musical and are controlling Watchout via MIDI showcontrol from a lighting console. We have videos running in free run, to allow us to control the fadeouts (opacity) as needed at random times dependent on the action on stage. However, we want the ability to pause a video at a random time based on the action on the stage, and resume it when necessary, and then fade it out when necessary. None of it can be set in the timeline, it all needs to be triggered as needed. And we don't want to see any jumps in the video by jumping around the timeline. Is this possible? Many thanks for your help. Zach Moore