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QLab Documentation
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What's New

QLab version 2 features many powerful new features. Highlights include:
New GUI.
QLab 2 offers a single integrated layout with streamlined controls to help you work faster.
48 channel output.
Each Audio Cue now supports up to 48 independent channels of output.
Sample-accurate audio synchronization.
QLab now provides guaranteed sample-accurate sync across all Audio Cues assigned to the same output device. You can pause and play the entire workspace, and it will all remain sample-accurate synced.
Audio waveform display.
Visually trim the head and tail of your audio files. Visually set a looping section of the file. Even add a fade envelope directly to the waveform.
Revamped vamping.
Vamping doesn't get any easier than this: set up a loop in your cue and fire a Devamp Cue when you want to move past the loop. You can even build an infinite number of looped sections into a single piece of music by "stitching" together multiple Audio Cues. (Remember: it's all sample-accurate synced!)
Draw your own fade curves.
Give your fades sharp edges or gentle curves: it's up to you.
Animate your videos.
The new Animation Cue allows you to animate opacity, translation, scale, and rotation.
Camera Cues.
Add a live video feed into your workspace. Animate it just like videos from a file.
Custom video rendering: Core Image filters and more.
You can render your videos and camera feeds through your own Quartz Compositions. The possibilities are endless.
Trigger cue lists from timecode.
QLab can follow either MIDI Timecode or Linear Timecode—or both at the same time. Each cue list can follow a different timecode source.
Generate MIDI Timecode.
Drop in an MTC Cue and tell it where to send the timecode.
Powerful scripting.
Use the Script Cue to control other applications on your Mac, providing tremendous flexibility and power. Thorough scripting hooks also let you control QLab with AppleScript, Python, or Ruby.
Overhead does not accrue.
Have you ever tried to chain together a bunch of short cues and by the end of it the timing was slightly off? This is because in QLab 1 the small overhead of firing each cue would add up. In QLab 2, however, the overhead does not add up. No matter how many you chain together, the last will always be as accurate as the first.
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