Show Cue System

Hi- I use SCS extensively, but mostly for audio and show control. As part of the "post-Covid reopening" we have been asked to host an outdoor cinema. I am a bit apprehensive about running a film length video file through SCS- probably 90 to 120 minutes long, 1920 x 1080 resolution. Has anybody had a...

This gets a big thumbs up from me.
My students (a fresh batch of new users every year )frequently forget where access to Production Properties is hidden.

Aha ! I missed that it overroad existing fade times. So a SFR uses the Fade Out time from the audio cue, regardless of where in the audio cue the SFR is triggered. I always assumed the Fade Out time only applied when the audio cue ran all the way to the end of the cue. Thanks for the clarification. ...

Mike- thanks for being open to tweaking :-) One thing I found confusing, and new students consistently have issues with in the Editor : In most cue types ( Audio FIle etc.) the timing settings are similar. But in a SFR you have to use " Time Override for Fades" which seems like a different thing, bu...

Yes you can trigger a specific cue remotely in Light Factory.
Use " Note Triggers" - you can assign a unique MIDI note to trigger a Lightfactory short cut or a command

Craig Blackley
Fanshawe College
London, Ont. Canada

Also, in the Device Map, the configuration for each audio output device ( i.e. each speaker ) can have a default output level.
I normally set this to -20.
Then any new audio cues you create will use that level as the initial level, specific to each output

I have used a single external MIDI adapters ( Roland UM-One for example) as MIDI "IN" and "OUT" , at the same time with SCS.
Check the usual- current drivers etc.
Also SCS isn't happy when you make changes to devices while it is running- i.e. don't swap in or out MIDI adapters while SCS is running.

For a recent show, we wanted the effect of a gramaphone winding down, but we wan't to be able to call when it happened. So creating a sound file with the "wind down" built in wouldn't work. So : we linked our SCS computer to another PC, via ethernet network. We used a freeware "Midi over ethernet" s...

We had a recent project that brought together a few neat tricks, with SCS as the core software. At an outdoor skating rink, the operator hits a hot key on a keyboard, which starts a cue with a playlist sub-cue in SCS. Another sub-cue starts SCS generating Midi time code from a clock value of "0 minu...

Running 11.6.2 :
In Cue Control , the Serial and DMX monitor windows, when data is coming in, crash SCS.
Serial Cue Control is working, its just the monitor window that causes a crash

Craig Blackley

I got it working- thanks for the help. I didn't use your method, but it helped me find what I needed. For future reference : in the Arduino sketch I have a declaration : char Str1[11] = {'s', 'c', 's', 'G', 'o', '(', '"', 'Q', '1', '"', ')'}; Note the "11" sets the number of characters- this may cha...

I am trying to use an Arduino to send serial commands into SCS, to trigger a cue sequence. The problem is that the serial string required " scsGo("x") " , when written into the Arduino code, can't compile , because the double apostrophe and brackets get read as program code, not as part of the seria...

Hello- very delayed follow up to my previous post about SCS / Lightfactory interaction. We ( Fanshawe College Theatre Technology, London , Ontario) used SCS with LF on two events this fall. The first was a "Haunted Hayride" in a Pioneer Village. Basically people ride on wagons pulled by tractors aro...

Sorry for the slow response- the pCs involved are on a site I can't get to readily. Once they come back I will make notes of the specific set up and post it

Craig Blackley

I did a test system for an upcoming project, using SCS 11.4 RC4 The new network send feature makes communication between SCS and Lightfactory very easy to configure. I had three laptops , each with SCS and LF. Laptop #1 ( "Master" ) sends "Network Send" commands to LF inside Laptop #1, and over wire...