Some time ago, I built EOS Timecode Companion which transformed CSV files into instructions to Eos consoles, designed to make it easy to get timecode out of Cue Points into ETC Eos.
Recently, I've revisited this app and made it more powerful. It updates your Eos showfile in near real-time based on CuePoints data.
Essentially, this turns CuePoints into a live timeline editor for Eos and has made it much easier for me to produce timecode-locked lighting for shows.
I've provided it here in case someone else finds it useful, but please note the following important caveats;
There is no way to get the Cue List or Timecode Offset from the XML file CuePoints produces, so I pull these from the track name, simply add them to the end of your track name e.g. 6/ 01:20:00:00 would be Cue List 6 with a timecode offset of 01:20:00:00
- If a cue doesn't exist with the provided number, it will be created.
- You can only reference one cue list per track
- Labels do not support non-standard characters
- Changing Cue List or Timecode Offset is unsupported, it might work but the behaviour is not guaranteed.
- If you enable delete cues it will delete a cue if you delete the corresponding marker and there is no other Cue Points marker that references the same cue. This can be handy if quickly building cues for a new sequence but I would strongly recommend turning it off as soon as you have scene data in those cues.
Unlike my previous version it does support multiple events with the same timecode. It does not support multiple timecodes for the same cue (even though Eos does and it's really useful, so I will probably add this in the future!)
I wrote this as a tool for myself first and foremost. It's hastily thrown together and is neither designed to be efficient nor well written, just to work. This is provided as-is and without warranty. save your show file first!
This one is macOS only, and is 5Mb instead of the 180Mb Electron app last time... but a consequence of this is it will only ever be macOS only!
You can download it here, let me know what you think and if you find it useful!
In an ideal world a direct OSC integration will appear in a future version of CuePoints completely negating the need for this little app :-)
Shameless self promotion, but if you're reading this then you use Eos and work on shows where timing matters so you might also like CueCam - capture your shows with your Eos cue data and annotate your recordings in realtime.
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