View menu & role presets
LTCast has more panels than any one person needs on screen. The View menu in the title bar, next to File, decides which optional panels are shown. Hiding a panel only changes what you see — every timecode output keeps running, and the menu says so.
Panels you can switch
Under Panels each entry is a tick box. Ticking one that has a tab also switches the right-hand panel to it.
- SONG MAP, DEPARTMENTS, LYRICS, SHOW (Show Timer and Show Log), TOOLS (TC Calculator), TRIGGERS and CALLING (Calling Script) — tabs of the right-hand panel.
- Stage Monitor — the panel pinned at the bottom of the right-hand panel (Stage Monitor).
- Hints — the hints panel.
The CUES and NEXT CUE tabs are always there. Out of the box only LYRICS and Hints are switched on (besides those two tabs). Under Exports, grandMA2 / MA3 export shows or hides the console export items in the File menu — grandMA2, grandMA3, the CSV cue sheet, ETC Eos and Hog / ChamSys together (see grandMA2 / grandMA3 XML).
Show all panels switches everything on. If NDI output is available on the machine, an NDI output item at the bottom opens the NDI slice editor.
The View button carries a small number — how many panels are currently hidden — and, once you have applied a role, the role's name.
Role presets
At the top of the menu, View as offers five buttons: VJ, Lighting, Audio, Stage and Full. Each sets all the panels above to a reference layout for that job:
| Role | Panels shown (besides CUES and NEXT CUE) |
|---|---|
| VJ | Song Map, Departments, Lyrics, Hints |
| Lighting | Song Map, Departments, Lyrics, Triggers, Stage Monitor, Hints, and the console exports |
| Audio | Song Map, Departments, Lyrics, Show, Tools, Hints |
| Stage | Song Map, Departments, Lyrics, Show, Triggers, Calling, Stage Monitor, Hints |
| Full | Everything, including the console exports |
A role is a starting point, not a restriction. Tick or untick any panel afterwards and the role label clears — the layout is then simply yours. A role also dims, but never hides, the cue lanes of other departments in the cue timeline, so your own department's cues stand out; the stage and video lanes are never dimmed.
These choices belong to this installation. They are not saved in the show file, and a fresh install applies no role: it starts with the defaults above.