Show State
ShowRevue can track where you are in the show and surface it in two places:
- the Show State widget on the recording overlay and the layout editor,
- the Show State pill on the Stage Display web page.
It cycles through four phases driven entirely by the lighting cues you fire on the desk:
| Phase | Trigger | Display |
|---|---|---|
| Preshow | No timing cues fired yet | PRESHOW —:— |
| Act N | The act-start cue fires | ACT N mm:ss count-up stopwatch (switches to hh:mm past one hour) |
| Interval N | An interval-start cue fires | INTERVAL N ↓ mm:ss countdown — green > 5 min, yellow ≤ 5 min, red overtime (− mm:ss) |
| Total | The show-end cue fires | TOTAL mm:ss — frozen running time from show start to show end |
All counters update once a second, in step — the stopwatch, countdown, time-since-cue and clock flip together.
Setting it up
Open File → Project Settings → Timing and fill in the cue numbers that mark your show boundaries:
- Show starts at cue — the first cue of Act 1.
- Show has intervals → for each interval, the Start cue (curtain down), End cue (curtain up on the next act), and Duration (min) (the planned interval length, e.g.
20). - Show ends at cue — the final cue of the final act.
The same cue numbers are used by the Session Summary PDF, so you only enter them once.
Auto-advance toggle
Under SHOW STATE WIDGET, the Auto-advance Show State from lighting cues toggle controls whether firing the above cues advances the widget. Turn it off if you want the widget to stay in Preshow regardless — for example, during a tech walk-through where you'll fire cues out of order.
Adding the widget to the recording overlay
The Default layout already includes the Show State widget (top-right) so most users do not need to do anything.
To add it to a custom layout:
- Preferences → Custom Layouts.
- Duplicate a layout (the Default layout is read-only).
- In the Widgets palette, click Show State.
- Drag/resize the widget where you want it. The font scales to fill the frame, so make it as small or large as you like.
The widget honours its frame — it does not shrink-wrap to its content, so the layout will not jump as the timer ticks.
Show State on Stage Display
The Stage Display web page shows the Show State pill in the top-right corner (above the LTC pill) on desktop, or just above the bottom bar on mobile.
Toggle it from Preferences → Stage Display → Show "Show State". The browser ticks the timer client-side from a phase + start-timestamp so it stays smooth between server pushes.
Anyone on the LAN — directors, producers, DSMs, FOH — sees the same phase at the same time as the operator.
Session Summary PDF — interval variance
Once a recording is finished, the Session Summary PDF shows each interval chip with a small footer comparing actual time to planned duration:
+0:35 over 10:00— red, ran long−1:12 under 10:00— green, ran shorton time (planned 10:00)— neutral, within ±1 s
The planned duration is the value you entered in the project's timing settings. The timing is saved into the recording file itself, so the report stays accurate even if you re-export it later.