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Studio mode is Fabl’s live control surface. Enter it from any page to run it as a rundown: you cue and take items on air, the system tracks each item’s status, and your cues are relayed to your devices through a connected agent.

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Enter studio mode

Open the page and click Studio, then choose the agent that will execute the show. The page switches to the studio control surface with transport controls, a current/next preview, and live timers.

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Transport controls

Starts the show. If nothing is on air yet, the cued item (or the first item) is taken to air. If a show was paused, it resumes. The show clock starts when you first play.
Halts the show and resets it: the first item is re-cued, all others return to idle, and the clocks clear.
Takes the cued item to air and automatically pre-cues the next item. Take is the same action — you can also take by clicking a cued item. Skipped items are jumped automatically.
Steps back to the previous item, making the current on-air item the cued item again. Skipped items are passed over.
Moves the cue forward one item without taking it to air, so you can pre-select what plays next. You can also cue a specific item directly by clicking it.
Marks the on-air item as skipped and advances to the next item.
When enabled, the rundown advances to the next item automatically when the current item’s duration elapses.

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Item status

Every item shows where it is in the show: The on-air item is marked live, the cued item is highlighted, and skipped items are dimmed.

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Timers

Studio mode runs three clocks:
  • Time of day — the current wall-clock time
  • Show clock — elapsed time since the show started
  • Item timer — elapsed time on the current on-air item

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Session bar on a director monitor

The session bar is a full-screen, chrome-free view of the show’s live status, made for a director or gallery monitor. Open it for a page from the page’s options menu (Open Session Bar) and put it on a second screen. It shows the transport and a row of programmable buttons at monitor size, and it stays in step with the show for everyone watching. If no rundown is running, it says so; when a session starts, it fills in on its own, and refreshing the screen resumes where the show is. The buttons are driven by your automation:
  • Rules can program what each button shows during the show, so the bar changes with the item on air.
  • Pressing a button raises an event your rules can react to, letting a director fire a cue straight from the monitor.
The session bar shows status and buttons, not the script. For a reading surface, use the prompter.

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How cues reach your gear

When you take, cue, or advance, the command is sent to the selected agent, which executes it on the connected device — cutting a switcher input, firing a graphic, recalling an audio scene, and so on. State flows back so the rundown stays in sync for everyone watching. Set up that automation in Rules.