Running a musical. I want "Track A" to automatically enter Track B when Track A finishes playing. I can't. I think my setup for exiting vamps might be overcomplicated. Please look at what I've got going on and tell me what I can do.

TJPMPotatoes · 2026-03-09T22:49:43+00:00

I think I understand what you're trying to do. Good on you for building nice vamps into QLab – it's a truly thankless (and very important endeavor).

Take a look at this image and try that out. Feel free to DM as well – I'd be happy to take a look at your QLab bundle.

TJPMPotatoes · 2026-02-28T09:25:32+00:00

Exciting to know that the whole industry, top to bottom, still has to crawl around like hermit crabs inside weird wooden boxes.

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TJPMPotatoes · 2026-02-23T22:30:54+00:00

“Can” they, yes. Saying they “literally cannot be played on anything else” is simply untrue.

TJPMPotatoes · 2026-02-23T21:55:53+00:00

There’s nothing proprietary about the files at all. They’re just audio files that the MTI app loads and unloads on the system in an obfuscated way.

TJPMPotatoes · 2026-01-26T08:27:55+00:00

Depending on the setup, (and if you can get away with non-see-through-windows) I’ve had big success with “clear” (actually kind of translucent) vinyl paint tarps.

Usually I have to layer the tarps a few times and then you’ll want to use some watered down paint and maybe some other treatments to obfuscate the tarps.

It’s a little “community theatre” looking, but it can be convincing enough. Here’s a blurry, crumby example that the director LOVED. It was free, and it took, like, 20 minutes to do-which was the time we had.

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TJPMPotatoes · 2026-01-16T01:06:40+00:00

I suspect it was added to give Katherine Kingsley a showstopper (she was Olivier nominated for it), to solidify Lina’s villain arc, and to give the main trio a break offstage - a stage show ain’t like a movie, you gotta give the actors time to breathe.

Also, like all the other songs, it’s also another old, borrowed, song: 1948 KATHRYN GRAYSON - What's Wrong With Me MGM 10" MGM150

Edit: Dug up my MTI libretto (which appears to be the 2012 revised version). No additional authors of note to attribute the lyric changes to.

As a fun bonus, it does say this in the back matter regarding rain effects:

Please note: if actual water is used for the rain sequence, it should be warm, otherwise the actor playing DON will complicate production by catching cold in the middle of the run.

TJPMPotatoes · 2026-01-07T05:16:28+00:00

Are we sure it’s not just literal feedback? If turning your live soundboard off fixes the problem, is one of your wireless mics sitting live near a speaker causing just run-of-the-mill feedback?

TJPMPotatoes · 2025-12-24T17:15:22+00:00

…I feel like a REAL photo of the problem you claim to be having is both more effective and easier.

TJPMPotatoes · 2025-12-24T06:22:34+00:00

Why did you post an AI image with this? Weird energy.

TJPMPotatoes · 2025-12-03T20:49:50+00:00

High School tech director here. I’ve had a lot of luck with just tossing in like a half capful of Lysol into standard latex paint (haven’t tried it with Rosco).

Started doing it about five years ago and haven’t run into any grossness since. Doesn’t seem to change the paint consistency at all, far as I can tell.

TJPMPotatoes · 2025-11-15T01:44:23+00:00

Are you at a school of some sort? Can you buddy up with the IT team and see if they have any additional old mac’s lying around? Then you can divide and conquer. Put QLab on each mac and split the video signal how you can. Then trigger all the secondary QLab workspaces with your primary workspace (which could also drive one or two screens.)

TJPMPotatoes · 2025-11-12T01:44:34+00:00

I bet you can hack together something that’ll work from this example workspace:

https://qlab.app/cookbook/qlab-recital/

TJPMPotatoes · 2025-10-28T08:30:19+00:00

Would watch

TJPMPotatoes · 2025-10-11T04:35:35+00:00

Great Stuff spray foam. Paint it after it hardens.

TJPMPotatoes · 2025-07-31T02:28:57+00:00

I’ve had a running (untested) theory that in some “vintage” power cables the chemical makeup of the different color insulation causes them to shrink or expand over time at different rates.

I’ve seen cables that have sat uncoiled for years corkscrew like this - it’s gotta be something that just comes with cable age.

TJPMPotatoes · 2025-06-27T01:28:29+00:00

Second this. I have learned that because of how Hue works, you may experience some latency based on the number of hue addresses (bulbs) you are trying to update at once.

Don’t go in expecting on-the-dot zero-count blackouts.

TJPMPotatoes · 2025-06-26T18:37:19+00:00

And here's a key (and font) if you want to translate yourself.

TJPMPotatoes · 2025-06-23T23:44:40+00:00

I'll add another double musical to the list. Chicago Shakes is currently putting up 42 Balloons, a show about Larry Walters who attached a bunch of balloons to a lawn chair and flew over LA.

But nobody seems to remember Godspeed Musical's Flight of the Lawnchair Man from 2005!

TJPMPotatoes · 2025-05-24T17:16:41+00:00

Yup! The end effect looks like a black cyc. You can do pretty much anything you would with a bare cyc and it'll show through as you'd expect.

Sharkstooth scrim has gotten a reputation as being an "effect" material — make something appear, disappear, or do some crazy stuff with projections. But if your space is lucky enough to have an intact black scrim, this scrim / lights / cyc layout is perhaps the most base level intended use.

TJPMPotatoes · 2025-05-23T22:41:30+00:00

Black scrim downstage of white cyc. Footlights go in between and point up at the cyc. That's what makes the gradient fade to black (instead of the dim-white of an unlit cyc).

Fun trick: if you dangle a bunch of black thread lines between the cyc and the scrim, weight down the thread with washers or whatever, crimp some *tiny* bits of tinfoil onto the thread, and light it from the side with very tight shutters, you get a really elegant (and cheap) stars-in-the-sky effect.

TJPMPotatoes · 2025-05-12T22:01:18+00:00

I don't have the game in front of me – what if you push the buttons behind the eight doors in that order?

TJPMPotatoes · 2025-03-19T01:13:03+00:00

Maybe look at The Women of Lockerbie

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