Timelines
Timelines choreograph complete shows: cues, presets, effects, sounds, Control Value moves, and scripts arranged on a visual multi-track editor, all firing at exact times.
Timeline Settings
Each timeline has a code and name, plus:
- Duration — the total length of the timeline
- Loop — how many times to repeat (0 = forever)
- Dimmer — overall brightness for the timeline’s playback
- Fade-In / Fade-Out — smooth start and end for the whole timeline
- Description, Favorite, and Only Admin flags
The Editor
Open a timeline and click Editor. Drag events from the Available Events panel — cues, presets, sounds, effects, control values, and scripts — onto the tracks, then drag to position and resize them.
- Cue tracks — cue events show an intensity profile you can shape, ramping the cue’s dimmer over its duration (fade a show in over ten seconds, dip it in the middle, out at the end)
- Sound tracks — audio events render their waveform on the track, making it easy to line lighting hits up with the music
- Control Value tracks — move levels (like a DSP volume) at exact points in the show
- Other events — script events run a script at an exact timestamp
A playhead with seek/scrub lets you preview any point; zoom and snapping make fine alignment easy.
Playback Controls
During playback, the Web UI provides a progress bar with pause/resume, seek/scrub, and stop — on the timeline page and on the dashboard.
Triggering Timelines
Timelines can be started from:
- Web UI — the play button in the timeline list
- Touchscreen — via schedules or custom menus
- Control surfaces — a Play Timeline button assignment
- External control — API, OSC, MQTT, or other input triggers
- Scripts —
dmx.playTimeline(code)
Duplicating Timelines
Duplicate a timeline from its detail page to create variations of an existing sequence.