Calling a live event, a Voice of God script or a TV announce from your script
A conference, an awards night, a launch, a live broadcast: there is a script, there are cues on it, and somebody is calling them or reading them out. Cuemark was made for theatre, where that is the whole job — and it does the same job for a show caller, a Voice of God announcer or a TV announcer.
It is a desktop app for Mac and Windows. You open the script as a PDF, put every cue on the word it fires on, and then call or read from the same page, a line at a time, without losing your place.
Show callers: conferences, awards and live events
- The run of show is the script. Open the PDF you were sent — the awards script, the conference running order — and drop each cue on its word: lighting, sound, playback, VT, graphics, camera, the walk-up stings. Rename the cue types to what your crew calls them, in Settings ▸ This show.
- The next cue is always on deck. Show mode reads one line at a time, with the next cue and its standby beside the script. Space, a foot pedal or a Stream Deck button takes it.
- Buttons that go with the cue. Give a cue a Bitfocus Companion button and Cuemark presses it as the cue goes — a graphic, a sting, a camera preset.
- The script changes at four o'clock. Open the new PDF and every cue follows its line onto it; anything whose words have gone is listed for you to check.
- A backup in the gallery. A second laptop follows the first, every GO and every page, and takes over at one press if the main goes down.
- A record afterwards. The show report has every cue with the time it went. Cue Cam (in the beta) keeps a picture of the stage as each cue goes.
Voice of God announcers
- Your lines, and when to say them. Mark each announcement on the script, with the cue before it — the music out, the winner's walk-up — so you can see what you are waiting for.
- One line at a time. The line you are on sits where you put it on the screen, highlighted, and moves on with a press of the pedal, so your eyes never hunt for the place.
- Read it in the dark. The page dims, or turns red in the booth, and the script can be shown as plain text at the size you want.
- Names said right. Hang a note on a line — a pronunciation, a late change, a sponsor's name — and it sits in the margin beside it.
TV announcers
- Continuity and live announce scripts as PDFs, marked with every in, out and hand-over, a line at a time.
- The run is timed. Show mode keeps the time of day and how long the show has been running, and records the moments you mark.
- Driven by the rest of the rig. OSC from QLab or a playback machine, MIDI from a pedal or a desk, or Companion: the script moves on when the gallery does.
What Cuemark is not
It is not a teleprompter: it shows the script page, or the script as text, rather than scrolling a feed for a camera. It does not fire the lighting desk or the playback itself; it tells you, and anything you have wired to Companion, when the cue goes. You still call the show. Cuemark keeps the book.
Try it on the sample scripts
The free trial has no time limit and opens two scripts of its own, so you can mark cues, wire up a pedal or a Stream Deck and read through show mode before you buy.