Auto Stop

Gary Giles wrote on 1/2/2011, 4:13 AM

Hi All

We are starting to use Vegas 9 and 10 for live shows. The question we have is is it possible to do the following.

When the play head reaches a marker to automate a auto stop and jump to next marker. So Vegas is ready to play the next cue. If this is possible to do how do I set this up?

This maybe a question for Scripting so I will post this question there too.

Regards

Gary

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 1/2/2011, 7:48 AM

I wouldn't use Vegas as a cue cart for live shows, simply because its preview wasn't designed with that kind of use in mind. Even racking your songs in a Winamp or iTunes playlist would seem more reliable.

I'm sure there are DJ / VJ tools that will do what you want, and there is also the older free broadcast tool from NCH Audio. http://www.nch.com.au/action/misc.html

Gary Giles wrote on 1/3/2011, 3:55 AM

Hi

Thanks for the reply.

I appreciate what you said but all we want to use it purely as a multi track playback unit. We have already used it for a kids show in the UK, In The Night Garden, we 5 shows a day, 6 days a week for about 3 months. I think we had 2 minor glitches throughout the whole of the run. All we want is a liner playback system. Just sometimes we just need to stop and start the playback. At the moment this is difficult to achieve by using external software like, SFX or QLab.

I hope someone who reads this can point me in the right direction. All I want to do is to stop and standby next marker or stop and jump to next marker and start playing again.

Thanks again for your input.

Regards
Gary

ChristoC wrote on 1/3/2011, 1:42 PM

I don't think Vegas does that; the only other software I know for sure does that is SSL/Soundscape "Editor" which has a setting "Play till next Marker" whereupon it stops; thus, if markers are sensibly placed close to beginning of each Cue, that is just what you need.

Additionally, user can instantly jump to and play a specific Cue just by entering Marker Number followed by UpArrow.

However that software will only work with specific SSL Hardware (MX4 MADI PCIe Card, or legacy SS32/REd32 systems)

see
http://www.solid-state-logic.com/music/soundscape/
and
http://www.solid-state-logic.com/music/Xlogic%20MX4/

BTW, the SSL MX4 also functions as a splendid soundcard for Vegas or just about any other Windows application...... with 128 inputs and 128 outputs!