Show-Ready Check
Before a take, one nagging question: is everything actually live? The camera might be stopped, timecode might have dropped, a cue list might be arriving on the wrong port. The Show-Ready Check answers all of it on one screen.
Open it from the Show Ready? button in the status bar. It reads live state from every manager and refreshes once a second, so the "…s ago" stamps and level meters stay current while you watch. Leave it open during a take — the header switches to Recording in progress and the same signals keep updating.
What it checks
| Section | Confirms |
|---|---|
| Video | Camera running with frames arriving (fps shown), or the NDI source is connected and receiving. |
| Timecode | Which source is actually feeding timecode right now (the failover winner — LTC / sACN / Art-Net / MTC / disguise), whether it's locked, and the rate. If it's not locked, the last good frame and how long ago it was seen. |
| Audio | Every configured track — signal, muted, or disabled — plus the LTC input level as its own row. |
| Consoles & cue input | Lighting (MA3 / Eos over OSC), MIDI/MSC (MA2), and QLab: listening or not, and when the last cue arrived. |
| Last cue per source | The most recent cue captured from each source — direct proof the console is reaching ShowRevue, not just that the port is open. |
| LAN servers | Stage Display, Live Notes and Companion: running, and how many devices are connected. |
| Settings | Configuration traps that look fine but bite mid-show (below). |
| Disk | Free space on the recording drive, with a warning under 5 GB. |
Each row carries a coloured dot: green ready, amber worth a look, red a problem, grey off or not in use.
Settings traps it catches
The Settings section is the one you can't see from the live view. It flags configuration that looks fine on the day but costs you a take:
- Zoom left on — a crop from last night's followspot close-up records the whole take cropped. Flagged amber whenever zoom is above 1×.
- Port conflicts — two services sharing a UDP port. Red, with a pointer to Preferences → Network.
- No main cue list — several lighting lists are arriving but none is nominated as the book, so timing and Director follow the busiest list. Flagged amber, pointing to Project Settings → Consoles.
- Blank Secondary cue widgets — a Secondary Lighting Cue overlay widget that was never pointed at a list renders nothing. Amber, pointing to Preferences → Layouts.
None of these stops you recording — the panel is advisory. It just means the surprise happens now, at your desk, instead of on playback.