Operator views
Built for a tablet
in the booth, in the dark.
An operator picks their spot and gets three layouts: Tracking for running the show, List for a traditional view, and Summary for everything worth knowing before the show. Each device remembers its own choice, its own text size and its own spot.
Tracking. The show view.
One large card per cue, only the cues this spot is in, scrolling with the console, designed to work in portrait orientation. The active cue is marked and held high on the screen; the next is lit and waiting. Each cue says the whole instruction, with the character's photograph beside it and the actual gel colours drawn as coloured dots. Three styles of view in the Tracking layout.
Manual advance by touch, by keys or by Bluetooth footswitch, and the next console cue picks the sheet back up automatically. Text scales up for easy reading.
List. The traditional view.
The same cues as a compact table, one spot wide: number, trigger, action, character, frame, size, time, location. Suited to landscape view with the tablet on its side, it is designed to be read at arm's length on a stand.
Operators who are allowed to edit can change any cell in place, and their edits land on the master plot at the desk instantly.
Summary. The overall details.
The show's reference card, the same for every operator: the followspots and who runs them, the colour loads frame by frame with gel numbers and names, the size shorthand spelled out, the cast with photographs and a description of them, plus the scenes with their cue numbers.
It exists to give the operators concise information about what they're doing and the colours in their spot, which is why it has its own PDF button and comes out of the printer as the summary the operators need.
Light for rehearsals, dark for the show.
Every layout ships in both themes. Operators run dark. Rehearsal rooms and printed proofs read better light. Each device chooses for itself.
And a screen for anywhere else: a Monitor login turns any spare display into a read-only master plot that always follows the live cue, whatever anyone else is doing. It has no keys to press and nothing to get wrong.
The production desk in rehearsal · the master plot in light mode, the calling script and the console alongside
Next: remote followspots.
RoboSpot rigs in the plot: who owns intensity, cue by cue, on every screen.