Stage Cue feature requests

AnthonyB

A few 'ease of use' feature requests after spending some time setting up SC for a project over the last couple of days.

Be able to define at a Global Settings level, the default video play mode.
By default, it sets all new videos added to Loop mode. For the projects I've used Stage Cue for, I've never wanted Loop mode, almost always Stop mode. As I've added each video, it became quite annoying having to remember to change this setting each time.
The ability to change the video file associated with a video.
A couple of times I've received revised versions of a video that I've already setup (play mode, midi trigger, etc.) and the first time it occurred, I was surprised that I could not long press the video to bring up video settings, click on the Video File field and browse to replace the file (just like you do with audio files in ST).
Again, it was minorly annoying having to setup a new Video and re-enter the settings (especially the MIDI trigger settings).
A Disable screen lock setting in Global Settings
Just like ST, it would be nice to have same capability in SC.
An on-screen control to allow you to seek forward/back while previewing video playback
There was a number of times where I needed to check what happens at the end of a video (with regards to video sync with audio and other cues) and it was a little painful having to let the video run from start to finsh in full every time. I kept wishing that the progress bar in the top of the video tile was dragable (even though very small). I'd love to see (maybe under the video preview pane) a standard video player seek bar that you can drag to change where video playback resumes from.
On the top part of the screen where the video preview pane sits, I feel it would be helpful to have either a non-black frame around the video preview, or at least the blank side bars on either side of the video preview, a slightly different colour.
The reason for suggesting this is that I was just working with some videos that were all blank and with text appearing. It was very hard to judge where the edge of the video frame actually was (black video background on black application background). I got quite a shock when I plugged in an external monitor via HDMI for a final test run and suddenly saw how close the text elements were to the edge of the video frame!
The current all black is probably fine until you are working with video that is predominantly black, so maybe these could be additional Settings; Video Preview Border On/Off, Video Border Colour, etc.

peter

Good suggestions overall. I have added them to my todo list.

For 2: just overwrite the video file in the Stage Traxx folder. That's all you need to do to update a video.

For 5: But any color choice could lead to this issue when the video background matches the app background.

AnthonyB

peter For 2: just overwrite the video file in the Stage Traxx folder. That's all you need to do to update a video.

Yeah, I know, just like audio files in ST.

I never touch ANY files on the iPad.
All the files I'm producing have unique names for version control, and I'm getting them onto the iPad via a cloud drive (usually Microsoft OneDrive, sometimes Google Drive).
So copying the file over the top with the same name would add more steps as I'd have to rename the latest version to a generic name and either bring it through the same workflow, or make a copy on the iPad of the uniquely named file, then rename it, then copy it., etc.

There's a lot more steps involved.

peter For 5: But any color choice could lead to this issue when the video background matches the app background.

Agreed. That's why I also suggested the video frame which still would've helped me with my black background videos and black app background. A red border video frame would stand out. And also why I suggested making the frame/backgound colours selectable in Settings as at some point in time you'll always end up with something that doesn't suit your chosen default colour scheme, in which case you can change to any colour to suit.