Couple of suggestions

[godoreba]

Today I used LISP for the firs time for theatre show and in the process of creating show and later on doing it I encounter a couple of remarks

• Go button must have minimum time between two clicks, touches... (I seen that somebody requested that but it is a MUST)

• I use dark theme and in the list view, it is a must to be able to change font size

• also in the list view, post wait time counter to go reverse.

• I use "stop all" action cue to -fade_out_stop- a single playing media cue, there is no progress bar in action column of the list-view, but it will be nice to be able to see it visually . speaking of witch, I did not found other way to fade out and stop a single playing media cue. example: Fade out playing media cue and then stop and do nothing (waiting for next cue)

In total, great app! All the best Alexander

[FrancescoCeruti]

Hi, thanks for the feedback :smile:

• Go button must have minimum time between two clicks

This is already implemented for the next version, there's a default of 100 ms, but can be easily changed

• I use dark theme and in the list view, it is a must to be able to change font size
• also in the list view, post wait time counter to go reverse.

Those are planned

Regarding your last point, if I understood correctly, you can simply trigger (Spacebar in List Layout) the cue again, while running, to stop it, or use this cue if needed. If you have any question you can ask on the gitter chat :-)

As for having the fadeout time displayed, in theory it's possible, maybe at some point we could see it :-)

[godoreba]

First of all, thanks you for your time :)

as far as gitter chat concern, I am not familiar with it and I am so sorry... maybe if you provide me with some link or something... I am new to linux and I am not app developer of any kind... ...I am just a simple sound designer with 20 years of experience in drama theatre who ran into a good piece of software :-)

Regarding your last point, if I understood correctly, you can simply trigger (Spacebar in List Layout) the cue again, while running, to stop it, or use this cue (index) if needed.

I worked with tape recorder, cd, md and now with PC, I did it almost all. What I learned is never to go back (track number) always go forward. It is doable to press on keyboard space key to play and again to fade out and stop on a media cue but when it plays it must stay highlighted and it should not to go forward in the list... I did not found that option.

Ok, index cue, I got it, and it works but... potentially there is a problem. if there is any adding or removing any of given cues above, the index is changed and index cue will not work accurately, or at all! Directors can make last minute changes. Solution (IMHO) may be like in the volume change cue, select media from the list and it stays fixed.

As for having the fadeout time displayed, in theory it's possible, maybe at some point we could see it :-)

I hope so... when the performance starts, all I do is wait for my cue. it's psychologically much more relaxed when I press the space on my keyboard and visually I confirm that I pressed the button and something is happening :)

and last question, for now, is there possibility for adding "video cue", witch will play on the second screen, whit only two types of transition -fade (in/out) and -cut? I don't know if this was requested before but it will complete the app.

All this is from my huge experience in the theatre and working with similar applications.

I will continue to work with linux show player and if I notice something, what I think that could improve app I will not hesitate to suggest

Again, thanks for your time.

all the best Alexander

[fnetX]

Hey, I'm not about to answer your questions but I am using LiSP to control video events with some workarounds. I don't know if you're interested in fiddling with your system, but you can very well use the command cue to trigger video events.

I used to run mpv (video player) via ssh on a second (video) machine. You have quite a lot of options, e.g. to start the software on the second screen (mpv --fs --fs-screen=1 VIDEOFILE) ... and I used the window manager settings to have opening and closing windows fade in and out. (Look here for an example, I was testing overlays (as you can see), to provide time and a countdown for time-limited presentations: https://fileshare.fralix.ovh/temp-yxkdn/eventtest.mp4)

It works very well for me, but I told myself to invest some time to work on a proper presentation opening / switching system with fade options which would introduce fading options to every window including video playback. But you probably don't want for me to turn my workaround into a proper piece of software.

[FrancescoCeruti]

What I learned is never to go back (track number) always go forward. It is doable to press on keyboard space key to play and again to fade out and stop on a media cue but when it plays it must stay highlighted and it should not to go forward in the list... I did not found that option.

For this reason we have an option Auto-select next cue, is mentioned in the docs, probably the name is not very intuitive

Ok, index cue, I got it, and it works but... potentially there is a problem. if there is any adding or removing any of given cues above, the index is changed and index cue will not work accurately, or at all!

The index can be both absolute or relative, in the second case you can set the index at, for example, "-1" and the cue will target the one positioned above itself, or "1" will do the same for cue below. The relative option is not completely safe but is less error prone, especially if the two cues are adjacent.

[godoreba]

@fralix thanks for the reply. I will keep that in mind, thanks

@FrancescoCeruti

For this reason we have an option Auto-select next cue, is mentioned in the docs, probably the name is not very intuitive

That is global variable. Why would I want to turn off that option for all cues? Make no sense to me.

The index can be both absolute or relative, in the second case you can set the index at, for example, "-1" and the cue will target the one positioned above itself, or "1" will do the same for cue below....

I am running lisp ver 5.9.5 on mint 19.x and there is a bug. when you add a index action cue and set it up and than later edit, if you save the changes and exit without setting up action of index cue again, it will not work! another bug is when you rightclick below list, popup menu appear, sometime submenu is not displayed properly.

Couple of suggestions In the list view, could the volume of media cues and volume to reach be displayed in db in a new column? volume action cue - in volume settings - volume to reach to be default value 0db. all counters in list view to go reverse.

thanks Alexander