Start a show in five steps
- Press My shows at the top, type a name and press Create new show. Fill in Production with the play's details, cast and crew.
- Press New scene for each scene of the play. Select a scene, then drag your music, videos and pictures onto the list. Each file becomes a cue in that scene.
- Press Import surtitles and paste your script. Each line becomes a surtitle cue.
- Open Screens, press Open for screen 1, move it to the projector and click it once for full screen.
- Switch to Run and press Space to GO. Scene headings are skipped by GO.
New to it? Open File, Open the sample show and press GO a few times.
One cue, three parts
Every cue can start a sound, show a video or picture, and change the surtitle, all on the same GO. Leave a part empty and whatever is playing carries on. Write the cue line in When to GO so the operator sees it above the GO button.
Cue options
Cue number: your own number, like 12 or 12.5. Wait before starting: the cue starts a few seconds after GO. GO next cue by itself: links cues together. Hotkey: a letter or number key plays the cue at any time, for sound effects. Colour marks cues by type. A disarmed cue is kept but skipped by GO. For a sound effect that can come at any moment, disarm the cue and give it a hotkey: GO passes it by and the key plays it.
Editing music
Select a sound cue and press Edit sound. Drag the start and end points on the waveform, set the fade in and fade out, change the level and tone, and listen before you apply. Your original file is never changed.
Moving to another laptop or browser
Use File, Pack show with media. Copy that one .luit file to the other laptop (Mac, Windows or Linux), open BURHA LUIT there and choose File, Open a show file.
Keys
| Space PageDown → | GO |
| PageUp ← | Back one cue (shows the previous surtitle; sounds keep playing) |
| ↑ ↓ | Move standby without playing |
| B or . | Hide or show surtitles |
| Shift+B | Fade all screens to black |
| Esc | Fade out all sound. Press twice to stop at once. |
| P | Pause or resume everything (for rehearsals) |
| Ctrl/Cmd+Z | Undo a change to the cues (Shift for redo) |
| Delete | Delete the selected cue or scene heading (Edit mode) |
| F | Full screen (on a screen window) |
| A–Z 0–9 | Hotkeys you give to cues |
A wireless presentation clicker works too: its next and back buttons send PageDown and PageUp. Its black-screen button hides the surtitles.
Esc on a projector window leaves full screen. Keep this control window in front while running the show.
Sound levels
Set each cue's level in the editor. While the show runs, use the faders under Playing now. Double-click a fader to put it back to the cue's level. The master fader and tone controls change everything together.
Show reports
Every run is timed. Production, Show reports lists each run with the time each scene started, so you can compare rehearsals and performances. Click the clock to end a run.
Browsers
BURHA LUIT runs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Brave and Opera on Mac, Windows and Linux. Chrome and Edge give the most: they place screen windows on the projectors and let you choose the sound output inside the app. The list below shows what works in the browser you are using now.