BaiLin Entertainment Blog

Did a show at Tavern On the Green for the 2021 Broadway Dream Gala! I love this flypack as my mobile office!  We use the Blackmagic URSA camera to capture the stage and the house. Two Mac mini for slides and playback. All feed into an ATEM Television Studio Pro 4K, and use the Blackmagic Web Presenter HD for streaming. Also feeding IMAG in the room, For program and ISO recording, we use the HyperDeck Studio HD Mini.  For audio, we have the Yamaha QL1, Shure Axient, and ClearCom FreeSpeak. Using the Dante Radial di to send the program audio mix to the streaming encoders.  Load in at noon, load out at midnight~

After using QLab for a few years, I noticed a recurring theme during tight cue-to-cue rehearsals. Directors and designers would constantly ask, "Can we just jump to the last 10 or 15 seconds of this cue so we can see the next transition?" While QLab has an excellent built-in "Load to time" function, digging through menus to type in a timestamp takes too long when you need to react in a split second. I needed a hotkey solution. I dove into QLab scripting, and with some incredible help from the Figure 53 support team, I built an script that handles this instantly. Below is an video and explanation of how the script works, why it's built the way it is, and how you can use it to speed up your tech rehearsals. Below is an example to load the selected cue to the last 10 seconds. tell application id "com.figure53.QLab.4" to tell front workspace     try         repeat with currentCue in (selected as list)         ...