Cues Window

The Cues Window provides a unified, searchable list of every cue across all timelines and compositions in a WATCHOUT show. Rather than opening individual timelines to find specific cues, the Cues Window aggregates them into a single view with powerful filtering, sorting, and navigation capabilities. It is the primary tool for auditing cue usage, performing bulk edits, and maintaining situational awareness during both programming and live operation.

To open the Cues Window, select Windows > Cues from the Producer menu.

The Cues Window is designed for rapid navigation between cues regardless of which timeline they belong to. Two navigation actions are available on any cue row:

Double-Click a cue to open its parent timeline in the Timeline Editor and scroll to that cue's position. This is the standard way to jump from the cue list into the timeline for detailed editing.
Alt+Double-Click a cue to jump playback to that exact moment in the timeline. This positions the playhead at the cue and is useful for previewing a specific cue during rehearsal or programming.

You can also navigate the list using the keyboard. Up/Down arrow keys move between rows, and Home/End jump to the first and last cue in the current filtered view.

Columns

The Cues Window displays cue information in a configurable table. Each column can be shown or hidden through the column menu, and columns can be reordered by dragging their headers.

Column	What It Shows	Visible by Default
Timeline	The source timeline or composition the cue belongs to, along with its lock status	Yes
Thumbnail	A visual preview of the media content for media cues	Yes
Name	The cue's name	Yes
Type	The cue kind and its media source type, e.g. "Media (Asset)" or "Media (Composition)"	Yes
Tier	The stage tier the cue is assigned to	No
Start	The cue's start position on its timeline	Yes
Duration	The cue's length	No
Countdown	A live countdown timer to marker cues during playback	Yes
Cue Set	The cue set group name and currently active variant	No

Click any column header to sort the list by that column. Click the same header again to reverse the sort order.

The Countdown column is particularly useful during live shows. It displays real-time countdowns to upcoming marker cues, giving operators advance warning of approaching scene changes, GO points, and other critical moments without needing to watch the timeline directly.

Click the filter icon in the Cues Window toolbar to reveal the Filter Panel. This panel provides multiple filtering mechanisms that can be combined to isolate exactly the cues you need.

Text Search

The text search field performs a case-insensitive search across cue names. It supports partial matching and multi-word AND logic:

Partial match — typing "intro" finds cues named "intro_video", "show_intro", "Introduction", and any other name containing the substring "intro".
Multi-word AND — typing "dogs eating" finds only cues whose names contain both "dogs" and "eating", regardless of order or position within the name.

Cue Type Toggles

Four toggle buttons filter the list by cue type: Control, Output, Variable, and Marker. When a toggle is active, cues of that type are included in the results. Deactivate a toggle to hide all cues of that type.

Media Sources Filter

For media cues specifically, you can filter by source type: Asset, Virtual Display, Composition, and Capture. This is useful when you need to find all cues that reference a particular kind of media source — for example, showing only cues that use capture inputs to verify live feed assignments.

Cue Sets and Tiers

The filter panel includes controls for filtering by Cue Set membership and Tier assignment. These filters help narrow the view to cues belonging to specific cue set groups or assigned to specific stage tiers.

Selection Scope

Selection Scope makes the Cues Window react dynamically to selections you make elsewhere in Producer. When one or more scope options are enabled, the cue list automatically updates to show only cues that match the current selection context.

Scope Option	Behavior
Asset	Shows only cues that use your currently selected assets in the Asset Manager
Timeline	Shows only cues from your currently selected timelines
Capture	Shows only cues that use your currently selected capture inputs
Virtual Display	Shows only cues that use your currently selected virtual displays
Active Timeline	Shows only cues from whichever timeline you are currently editing in the Timeline Editor

When multiple scope options are enabled simultaneously, they use AND logic — a cue must satisfy all enabled criteria to appear in the list. For example, enabling both "Asset" and "Timeline" shows only cues that use the selected asset and belong to the selected timeline.

Show Selected Cues Only

The Show Selected Cues Only toggle restricts the list to cues that are currently selected in the Cues Window. This is useful after building a multi-select to isolate the selected cues for review before performing a bulk operation.

Selecting Cues

The Cues Window supports standard selection patterns:

Click a row to select a single cue (deselecting all others).
Ctrl+Click to add or remove individual cues from the selection.
Shift+Click to select a contiguous range from the last-clicked cue to the clicked row.
Ctrl+A to select all currently visible cues. This is context-aware — it selects all cues that pass the current filter, not all cues in the show. If you have filtered to a specific timeline or cue type, Ctrl+A selects only the filtered results.

Drag and Drop

You can drag assets from the Asset Manager onto cues in the Cues Window to replace their media source:

Single cue replacement — drag an asset onto a cue row to replace that cue's media with the dragged asset.
Bulk replacement — select multiple cues first, then drag an asset onto any one of the selected cues. All selected cues have their media replaced with the dragged asset simultaneously. This is one of the most powerful features of the Cues Window for large-scale show maintenance.

Locking

Each cue row displays a lock icon indicating the cue's lock state. Three states are possible:

Unlocked — the cue can be freely edited.
Locked — the cue is individually locked against editing.
Timeline-locked (dimmed icon) — the cue is not individually locked, but its parent timeline is locked, which prevents editing.

Clicking the lock icon toggles the lock state for that cue. When multiple cues are selected, toggling the lock icon affects all selected cues at once.

Filter Presets

If you frequently use a specific combination of filters, you can save it as a filter preset for instant recall. The preset dropdown at the top of the filter panel provides the following actions:

Save — updates the currently loaded preset with the current filter settings.
Save As / New — creates a new named preset from the current filter configuration.
Load — applies a previously saved preset, restoring all its filter settings.
Delete — removes a saved preset.
Restore — reverts the current filter settings to the last saved state of the loaded preset.

Filter presets are especially valuable in complex shows where you regularly switch between different filter contexts — for example, toggling between a "markers only" view and an "active timeline assets" view.

Cues that belong to a timeline currently open in Blind Edit Mode are visually distinguished in the Cues Window. They display a distinct background color and an eye icon to indicate that they are part of a blind edit session and their changes have not yet been applied to the live show.

Practical Workflows

Bulk Media Replacement

When an asset needs to be swapped across many cues — for example, replacing a client logo after a rebrand:

Type the old asset's name into the text search field to filter the list.
Press Ctrl+A to select all matching cues.
Drag the new asset from the Asset Manager onto any of the selected cues.
All selected cues are updated to use the new asset.

Finding Every Cue That Uses a Specific Asset

To audit where a particular asset is used across the entire show:

Select the asset in the Asset Manager.
In the Cues Window filter panel, enable Asset under Selection Scope.
The cue list immediately updates to show every cue in the show that references the selected asset, across all timelines and compositions.

Pre-Show Checklist

The Cues Window supports several pre-show verification patterns:

Timing verification — filter to Marker cues only using the cue type toggles, then review countdown timers and marker positions across all timelines.
Lock audit — sort by the Timeline column to group cues by timeline, then scan the lock icons to verify that finalized timelines are properly locked.
Per-timeline review — enable Active Timeline under Selection Scope, then step through each timeline in the Timeline Editor. The Cues Window updates automatically to show only the cues from whichever timeline you are viewing.

Focused Editing with Context Following

For ongoing editing sessions where you want the Cues Window to automatically track your work:

Open the filter panel and enable Active Timeline under Selection Scope.
Save this configuration as a filter preset (e.g. "Active Timeline Follow").
As you switch between timelines in the Timeline Editor, the Cues Window automatically updates to show only the cues from the timeline you are currently editing.

Tips

Ctrl+A respects the current filter. After narrowing the cue list with any combination of filters, Ctrl+A selects only the visible results. This makes filter-then-select-all a reliable pattern for bulk operations.

Combine filters for precision. Selection Scope, text search, and cue type toggles all apply simultaneously. Use them together to build highly specific views — for example, "all media cues using capture sources on the active timeline whose names contain camera".

Use filter presets to avoid repetitive setup. In shows with many timelines and cue types, saving presets for common filter configurations saves significant time and reduces the risk of missing cues during review.

Sort by Timeline for structural overview. Sorting by the Timeline column groups all cues from the same timeline together, providing a quick structural overview of cue distribution across the show.