The Cue Stack

The heart of QPlayer is the cue stack, this is where all media cues, and any other action that can be triggered by the GO button live. This is an ordered list of all the cues in the project. For each cue, some common properties are displayed, most of these are described in more depth on the Common Cue Properties page.

Playing Cues

When you press the GO button ( Space Space Space Space ) the currently selected cue, the one highlighted in the cue stack, is played. When a cue is fired the next cue in the cue stack is selected. To all active cues in an emergency, the Stop button can be pressed ( Escape Esc Escape Esc ). All active cues are displayed in a list in the left hand panel, from there they can individually be stopped, paused, and resumed. To pause all active cues, the keyboard shortcut Left Square Bracket [ Left Square Bracket [ can be used pressing the Right Square Bracket ] Right Square Bracket ] resumes all active cues.

Cues can be selected in the cue stack by left clicking on them, or you can select the previous cue by pressing Up Arrow Up Up Arrow Up on the keyboard, or Down Arrow Down Down Arrow Down to select the next cue in the stack.

The Playback column in the cue stack, displays the duration current playback progress of the cue. A cue can be “preloaded” to a specified playback time by selecting the cue, entering a Preload Time in the preload panel in the bottom-left of the main window, and pressing Preload Cue. This puts the cue into a “paused” state at the playback time specified by Preload Time.

Creating and Editing Cues

There a few ways to create a cue in QPlayer. The simplest is to right click in the cue stack on the cue before where you want to insert a cue, this brings up the cue context menu:

From here you can press “Add [Cue Type] Cue” to add the desired cue to the stack. Cues can also be created by going to the Edit/Create Cue/Add [Cue Type] Cue menu, or by pressing Command + T CmdT Control + T CtrlT which also brings up a cue creation menu.

Created cues can be duplicated by pressing Command + D CmdD Control + D CtrlD , or by using the button in the right-click menu. They can also be deleted by pressing Delete Delete Delete Delete , or by using the right click menu.

Cues can be reordered in the cue stack, by dragging and dropping them, or by using the keyboard shortcuts Command + Up Arrow CmdUp Control + Up Arrow CtrlUp and Command + Down Arrow CmdDown Control + Down Arrow CtrlDown . Note that reordering cues in the cue stack will result in them being renumbered, this can have an effect on cues which reference other cues by Cue ID. See the Cue ID page for more information on Cue IDs.