Cue templates

Cue templates save the structure of a song's cue list — labels, colors, cue numbers, notes, trigger labels, standby times, and relative timing — as a named preset you can apply to other songs. Departments are not part of a template. Templates are stored on this computer and are available across all shows.

Saving a template

With a song loaded and its cues set up the way you want, click Templates ▾ in the header of the CUES tab and choose ＋ Save current structure…. Type a name, then click Save (or press Enter). The template is saved locally and appears in the list immediately. The list keeps the 50 most recent templates; saving more drops the oldest.

Applying a template

Load the song you want to apply the template to, open Templates ▾, and click a saved template in the list. It is applied at once; there is no separate Apply button.

Two checkboxes above the list decide how it is applied, so set them before you click the template:

• Stretch to song length — places each cue at the same fraction of the song's length that it had in the song the template was saved from, so a cue that sat halfway through the first song lands halfway through the new one. Useful when two songs have different lengths but the same structural shape. With it off, cues land at the same absolute times as in the original.
• Replace existing cues — when on, clears the song's current cues before applying the template. When off, the template cues are added alongside existing cues.

Applied cues are kept inside the song's length, and they become the current selection. Ctrl+Z undoes the whole application in one step. To remove a template, click the × at the end of its row.

Template storage

Templates are stored per-installation, not inside the .ltcast project file. They are available across all shows on the same computer but are not transferred when you share a project with another computer. To share a cue structure with another installation, copy the cues and paste them into the other show (see Copy & paste cues).

Example use case

If you run the same show structure every weekend with different songs each week, save the cue template from one week's setlist and apply it to the new songs the following week. Use Stretch to song length to adapt the timing automatically, then fine-tune individual cues as needed.