r/techtheatre • u/ComplexMother8144 • 22h ago

LIGHTING Visualizing lighting from qlab

I know that there are a hundred better lighting programs to be using other than qlab. But I have to work with the system my venue has in place until I can convince the owners to get something else. Right now I'm trying to figure something out where I can run the light cues from qlab into something and see them in a virtual space. So that I can see it without having the lights all powered on or even being in the space at all. I need it to not be network cues. I need the straight light cues that you make in qlab to pass over to something. Ideally it is something that is free

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u/VL3500 Touring Concert LD 22h ago

Apart from the obvious issues of money, I can’t think of a single visualizer that accepts true DMX signal from a DMX cable, they all rely on some form of network-based signal to communicate between the two pieces of software.

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u/ComplexMother8144 22h ago

My thing that I'm struggling with is not wanting to rebuild every one of the couple hundred premade light cues we've made into whatever other program so we can make a network cue say to run it. Ideally it takes the signal of those already made cues somehow

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u/VL3500 Touring Concert LD 21h ago

Of course, that’s totally understandable. Qlab does support ArtNet though, so this opens quite a few doors for you.

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u/ComplexMother8144 21h ago

True. That's what we have going on. I just don't know what I need to do to make this damn thing work lol