Quick-Cue Palette (keys 1–8)

The Quick-Cue Palette lets you drop a cue marker in real time by pressing a number key (1–8, or Shift+1–8 for the second bank) during playback. Each key corresponds to a slot with a preconfigured label and color. Pressing the key captures the playhead position as a new marker with that slot's label and color stamped onto it. Quick-Cue is a Pro feature, and the trial includes it.

Turning the palette on and off

The palette is on by default. Switch it from the CUE SYNC pill in the status bar (click it to toggle; it lights up while the palette is on), or in Settings → Workflow → Cue Sync with Enable Quick-Cue capture (keys 1–8 + Shift).

The keys do nothing while a text field has focus, so you can type digits in a label. A song must be loaded: with none, LTCast says to load a song from the setlist first. The marker is placed at the playhead you see on screen, frame-snapped, also while you are paused, and while LTC Chase is following an external clock.

Sixteen slots in two banks

There are 16 slots. Keys 1–8 use slots 1–8, and Shift+1–8 use slots 9–16. Slots 1–8 start as Lighting, SFX, Audio, Stage, Video, VJ, Hit and Drop, each with its own color; slots 9–16 start with a color and no name, ready for your own labels. A marker captured from a slot remembers the slot, so the — set cue — dropdown on its row in the CUES tab shows it from the start.

Configuring slots

Each slot has a Default label and a Colour, edited in Settings → Workflow → Cue Sync. The label and color are stamped onto every marker captured with that slot's key. Reset to default palette puts all 16 slots back to the defaults. The palette belongs to the computer, not to the show file, so it travels with you from show to show.

The Profession dropdown loads a ready-made set of names for the first eight slots (the colors and slots 9–16 are left as they are):

VJ — Intro, Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Drop, Live, VCR, Blackout
Lighting — Verse, Chorus, Hit, Build, Drop, Strobe, Blackout, Color
AD / Stage Manager — Standby, GO, Countdown, Song Top, VCR Roll, Pyro SBY, Camera, End
Audio (A1) — Band In, Vocal Up, Verse, Chorus, Playback, Click, MC, Mute

Editing any slot's label or color switches the dropdown to Custom.

Saving a custom profession

If you have a set of slots you want to reuse across sessions, type a name and click Save as…. It appears under Saved in the Profession dropdown, next to the built-in presets, and each saved profession can be renamed, overwritten with the current slots or deleted from the list below.

Department assignment

Pressing a number key captures a cue but does not assign a department. After capturing markers in real time, assign departments on each cue's row in the CUES tab (the — targets — dropdown) before exporting or distributing cue sheets.

When the number keys do something else

If the palette is switched off, or you do not have Pro, the number keys 1–9 follow Settings → Workflow → Appearance → Number keys 1-9. The default is Jump to song in setlist: while a song is playing, a number key only preselects that song as the amber STANDBY row, exactly like ↑ / ↓, and Enter starts it, so a stray key cannot cut the song that is on air. When the transport is stopped or paused, a number key loads that song. The other choice, Jump to marker in current song, moves the playhead to that numbered marker. With the palette on and Pro available, key 9 still works this way, because the palette only uses 1–8.

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