Set your show up in about ten minutes.
From an empty show file to a cue stack the crew can follow.
| Bar No. | Colour | Item / Scenic Element | Type | Weight (kg) | WLL (kg) | Distance to SL (m) | Notes / Warnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HC | House Curtain | House Curtain | 246 | 500 | 0.76 | Bring in for scene changes as required | |
| 1 | Border 1 | Border | 38 | 350 | 0.96 | Masks the house tabs track and the scrim head | |
| 2 | Legs 1 | Leg | 54 | 350 | 1.17 | Standard masking, both sides | |
| 3 | Black Scrim | Backdrop | 34 | 350 | 1.32 | In at preset, out for the forest, back in at Midnight | |
| 5 | LX 1 | Lighting | 214 | 350 | 1.71 | Dead hung, does not fly | |
| 7 | ½ Tabs | Tabs | 88 | 350 | 2.11 | Two ops on the rail | |
| 9 | Forest Cloth | Backdrop | 96 | 350 | 2.56 | Slow out, no snatch | |
| 12 | Kitchen Flat | Backdrop | 118 | 350 | 3.10 | Flown with the truck, confirm method | |
| 15 | LX 3 | Lighting | 406 | 350 | 3.73 | Over WLL. Six movers added at tech, confirm loading | |
| 18 | Ballroom Cloth | Backdrop | 104 | 350 | 4.33 | Stars and cyc read through the arch | |
| 21 | Star Cloth | Backdrop | 67 | 350 | 4.96 | Power feed via the bar, check the loom is clear | |
| 24 | Cyc | Cyclorama | 58 | 350 | 5.56 | Tension the bottom pocket before the first out |
Sample show data.
Open FlyCue and name the show
Go to the app in any browser and sign up. Whoever creates a show is its Admin, and the Admin is the only role that can add people to it or import over the top of it. Roles are granted show by show, so being the Admin here says nothing about any other production. Open Show Details and fill in the production name and whichever credits you want on the printed paperwork: director, designer, head mechanist, fly supervisors, venue, dates.
Build the flying plot
On the PLOT tab, add a line set for every bar you are using. Bar number, what is on it, a type, weight, working load limit, distance to the setting line, and a colour so it reads quickly. Anything over the WLL turns red. If you already have a schedule in a spreadsheet, import it as CSV instead of retyping it, or drop in the venue's own hanging plot PDF and let FlyCue read the table out of it. Save the result as one of My Venues and the next production in that house starts from the house rig instead of a blank page.
Name your dead positions
In Settings, add the intermediate trims you use for each bar: Dead 1, Dead 2, whatever your house calls them. Once they are named you can pick them as an action in a cue rather than writing out a height every time.
Write the cue stack
Switch to CUES and add a cue for each moment. Give it a cue number, the scene or moment, and any calling notes. Then add its bar moves: each one a bar, an action (IN, OUT or a named dead), a speed and the operator who takes it. Add dividers for House Open, Act 1 and Act 2, drop a holding slide in where the interval falls, and drag to reorder or hit Sort by Cue # to tidy up.
Set home positions
Open the rig view and use Set Home Positions to tell the visualiser what is already in before the show starts: usually the legs, the borders and whatever masking or smother lives dead in at the back. The rig drawing builds every move from there, so it only reads true if this is right.
Bring the crew on
This is the step a licence buys. Everything up to here works on the free tier, on the one machine you built it on. A show code, live sync and Button Mode are what turn it into something the whole crew is looking at. Read the show's six-digit code out over comms and any FlyCue account holder can be added as an operator. Their own account costs nothing, whatever tier it is on. Operators move through the stack, use Fullscreen and Button Mode and print their own cue sheet; they cannot change a thing. Editors get all of that plus the plot, the cues, the colours and the deads. For anyone who only needs to follow, copy the Button Mode link and have them save it to their phone's home screen.
Good habits.
Write the show code on the call sheet
It is generated for you, and it is the one thing the whole crew needs. Do not trust anyone to remember six digits read out over comms once.
Print before you need to
Run off the plot and the cue sheet at the end of the plotting session, not at the half. Paper never desyncs.
Put the rail on Show Mode
Editing locked for the run means nobody changes a dead by leaning on a trackpad.
Save the house rig as a venue
The next production in that building starts from the real rig instead of an empty table.
Download the show file on the last day of tech
One file, no account, no internet. It is the fallback that works when nothing else does.
Ready when you are.
The free tier builds the whole show. Sync is the part you decide on later.