Director View

Director in Both mode: recorded playback beside the live camera, the scrubbable timeline, and the NOW / NEXT panel with a countdown to the next cue.

Director is a follow-along view built for the director's or associate's desk: a big feed, a scrubbable timeline, and a NOW / NEXT panel that tracks the playhead — legible from across the room. Point it at last night's recording during today's run and it stays aligned to the real show as live cues and timecode arrive.

Open a recording in Playback first, then switch to Director. With nothing loaded, Director offers a Go to Playback button.

NOW / NEXT

Two cards sit under the feed:

• NOW (green) — the cue and note at the playhead.
• NEXT (blue) — what's coming, with a countdown to the next event.

Notes show their department chip, using the recording's own department names and colours — the palette is frozen into the recording when it's made, so an old take keeps the departments it was shot with even if the project's palette has changed since.

Use the A … A slider in the header to scale the panel's text for across-the-room legibility, and drag the splitter handle between the feed and the panel to trade feed height for panel height — the feed fills whatever's left.

Feed: Recorded, Live, or Both

The header picker switches what the big feed shows:

• Recorded — the playback video.
• Live — the live camera, full frame.
• Both — the recording with the live camera as picture-in-picture, for comparing tonight's stage against the recorded run.

If the live camera isn't running, Director offers a Start live camera button.

Timeline

A scrubbable timeline runs under the feed: cue ticks and department-coloured note dots along a track, with a smooth playhead. Click or drag anywhere to seek — the NOW / NEXT cards follow.

Following the live show

The Following live cues toggle keeps the recording aligned to the real show:

• An incoming LX cue from the console jumps the playhead to that cue's moment in the recording.
• Incoming live timecode drift-corrects the playhead to the matching moment.

Turn it off for plain, hands-on playback.

Keyboard shortcuts

Key	Action
Space	Play or pause
← / →	Previous / next LX cue
↑ / ↓	Previous / next note

The header also shows the show name, the timecode readout with its frame rate, and which timecode source is driving it.