This page covers the scene cue: a composition of several sources, played as one line. A background with a countdown over it, a logo over a video, a picture-in-picture. You build the scene once and the rundown treats it like any other cue.
Adding one
Scene in the toolbar. You get the scenes this installation has; pick one, or make a new one and build it.
Building is a subject of its own — sources, order, visibility, locking, filters — and it lives in part 8.
A scene with a clock in it
A scene can contain a countdown or clock source — counting down over a duration, counting down to a time of day, counting up, or simply showing the time or the date.
Two things happen automatically when it does:
- The clock stays frozen until the cue goes live. It starts when the audience sees it, not when you armed it.
- A scene with a countdown sets the duration of the cue by itself. You do not fill in the same number twice.
The clock source and its formatting are covered in part 8.
What you can set on the cue
The ordinary columns: transition, follow action, link. A scene has no in and out point unless something inside it runs to an end.
Volume applies to whatever sources inside the scene produce sound.
When a scene, and when not
| Situation | Use |
|---|---|
| Two or more things on screen at once | Scene |
| A countdown to the start of the service | Scene with a clock source |
| One picture | Still — simpler, and it cannot be broken by accident |
| One clip | Media |
| A layer that has to sit over everything else all evening | Not a cue at all — see the overlay output in part 4 |