CMU School of Drama


Saturday, April 30, 2011

Qlab Training Tutorial

On Stage Lighting: "Regular readers of On Stage Lighting will know that I am currently teaching Technical Theatre subjects at a UK university, leading modules in Lighting, Sound and Video in Theatre Production. Although my specialism is obviously stage lighting design and programming, I have been known to break rank occasionally in my professional life and my current gig requires the teaching of many areas of technical production in performance including sound and AV.

1 comment:

greenbowbear said...

I recently went to a Playground workshop by Cyril on Sound & Media in QLab. I’d used QLab a bit before in high school, but wanted a dedicated lesson. It was a great review! I wanted to get deeper into it, so I looked in this article!
This article is from 2011, but was updated in 2019 with some links to newer versions. I looked into the 2011 version first for fun. It boasts that you can *actually* use it to playback your audio files on a real show. !!!!! The layout was pretty similar to the 5.5.6 version we’re on now. It didn’t have fancy stuff like audio mapping, but it had all the basics: cues, groups, fades, auto follow, auto continue, levels, output, settings, etc.
I looked into this site’s newer tutorials, which were also helpful! Mostly, i looked into “QLab 3 Tutorial: Moving on from QLab 2.” This article is from 2014, so barely any newer. QLab 3 looks more like the interface I’m familiar with, and QLab 2 is the interface I saw from the 2011 articles. It was interesting to see the differences- mainly that there used to be separate fade cues for sound and media!