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Features / Time and cues · Crew · Presenter

Everyone sees where the show is, and what is next.

How much longer do they have? How long did that segment take? Now the whole crew can see for themselves, because timers and cues live in the script and everyone works from the same clock.

Speaker timer

A clock the presenter can trust.

The time remaining, the segment name, and an estimate that says plainly whether the segment is running over or under. The presenter never has to do the arithmetic.

SCREENSHOT TO CAPTURECapture: The speaker timer page: Time remaining as the large clock on the right half; real time, the estimate (for example -0:12), Coming up and pace on the left.

Coming up

See the next cue before it arrives.

A live list of the cues ahead of the reading line, each with the time until it. It moves up as the reading crosses each one, so crew know what is next without reading the script.

SCREENSHOT TO CAPTURECapture: The operator window with the Coming up list under the timer card, showing four or five cues in different colors with times.

Timer cues in the script

Timer events fire from the script.

Set, start and finish cues sit right in the text. An indicator on the live bar shows how many are armed and turns red if they are off, and Cadence can arm them for you when you press Play. If a segment finishes with time to spare, the clock stops and turns green.

SCREENSHOT TO CAPTURECapture: Two crops of the live bar side by side: Armed 5 in green and OFF 5 in red. Optionally the green finished clock.

Share the speaker timer

Put the clock on any screen.

Switch on sharing and Cadence lists an address for each network you are on. Crew open it in a browser, with no extra cables or software. The Time remaining half is a clean clock that other systems can use.

SCREENSHOT TO CAPTURECapture: The Share on the network switch with the listed addresses and viewer count, next to the timer page open in a browser window.

Cue colors

Cues you can read from across the room.

Video, slides, general, audio and bookmarks each have a color from the start, and you can change any of them to match how your crew already works.

SCREENSHOT TO CAPTURECapture: The script editor with all five cue types visible in a few lines of a realistic script.

Cue audiencesComing soon

Show each person only what they need.

Mark a cue for the crew, the presenter or both, so presenter-only direction stays off the crew's list.

Try it on your next show.

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