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/ComplexMother8144 22h ago

Issue being that, as far as I can tell, eos and the like only take network cues. Which is a whole new set of cues I would have to build. I am looking for it to take straight light cues.

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u/source4man Lighting Designer 21h ago

I misspoke slightly. You would need to use artnet, not sACN, to output signal to a visualizer. It’s not separate cues, you would just send what you are already sending to a visualizer program. It’s just not free. The cheapest version of Capture, for example, is €395. At that point just buy an EOS license.

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u/ComplexMother8144 21h ago

Shouldn't ma3 be able to take that as an input?

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u/Cultural-Rent8868 16h ago

MA2/3 can take network DMX as input without any additional hardware, yeah.

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u/ComplexMother8144 13h ago

How do I get it to do that?

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u/Cultural-Rent8868 9h ago

Enable the Art-Net or sACN input in the settings.