QLab 5.3.8 Release Notes

We’ve (temporarily, we hope) disabled the progress bar that QLab displays when opening workspaces or building lots of new cues. Instead, for large workspaces or lots of cues, you might see a beachball cursor instead. Rest assured QLab is still doing the same work as before, it is just not showing you a progress bar about it. Why change this, you might ask? Because Apple, in their infinite wisdom, changed progress bars from updating “when you told them to update” and instead update them “maybe, eventually, when Apple feels like it”. The workaround we’d used to force progress bars to actually, you know, progress, was causing problems, so we’ve disabled it until we can find a different approach.

A crash that could occur when editing a Text Cue with macOS Sonoma’s inline predictive text enabled.

A condition in which fading in audio from silence using an integrated fade could sometimes allow the audio to start very briefly at a volume that was not silent.

A regression introduced in 5.3.4 that could prevent Timecode cues from running in some circumstances.

Opening workspaces with lots of Camera cues is now faster.

An issue that prevented Blackmagic outputs from applying changed settings under some circumstances.

An issue that caused some machines’ identifier to be inconsistent, thus interfering with QLab’s license status.