MADMAPPER FEEDBACK
Hey team, I just finished on a tour where I used Madmapper alongside Resolume to run a lot of timecoded songs (the whole show basically). The comb worked really well and this allowed me to dial things in a lot. Over the 2 weeks I was taking notes of issues and ideas I was having that would improve Madmapper for this sort of use.
TIMELINE — BUGS & USABILITY
[Bug] Ctrl+scroll zoom does not work in the timeline well — horizontal zoom should be a standard interaction. Issue I had on a project
[Feature] Add copy/paste support for timecode values throughout the timeline panel.I need to easily update offset vales and the current parameter box to enter offsets is fiddly and slow
[Feature] All timeline parameters (e.g. Duration) should accept timecode-format input, not just represented as seconds. Maybe this a mode that can be choosen (like show timeline as timecode fps) similar to how you can change the playback setting of a Adobe Premiere (or Ae) timeline from Timecode etc
[UX] Improve the timeline dropdown list: allow reordering, show more entries, and provide a dedicated panel/window for managing timelines. I was using Madmapper on a timecoded tour. Every song had its own timeline. Total of 14 songs. I was jumping around between timelines and I wanted to rename some of them, reorder them. The dropdown menu was a little slow, would be great to have a dedicated panel for managing them
[Feature] Add the ability to trigger and switch between different timelines automatically during a timecoded show — via OSC, MIDI, Timecode or an internal sequencing mechanism — so timeline swaps can happen hands-free mid-run.
Need some way to have both a "Master Timeline" as well as little pre-comp timelines so that songs or scenes can be built but then easily programmed over a larger show.
AUDIO — FEATURES & WORKFLOW
[Feature] Add an option to disable auto-looping for media clips. When working with timecode audio I need clips to play exactly once so I can confirm the full file is represented.I dont always want it to start looping the file when i drag the media handle out.
[Feature] Add stereo pan control for audio files in the timeline. LTC timecode embedded in 1 audio channel; I need to pan to other side so I don't have to create a whole new audio file with LTC stripped out just for programming.
[Feature] Audio files should live in the main media palette alongside video and image assets — not only inside a module or the timeline. Currently Audio can exist in 2 different locations inside madmapper (in a Timeline or in a Audio module) This is a little confusing. I think of audio as just another asset like an image or a video file. It would be great to have it in 1 location and then "applied" to things like the timeline.
[UX] Right-click on an audio file in the timeline should include Reveal in Finder / Show in Explorer so that I can confirm which file is being used (in case there have been updates to latest file and i cant remember if I have updated it in Madmapper, need to be able to confirm).
CUE & SHOW CONTROL
[Feature] Allow cue markers to be imported as timeline cues/markers (e.g. from cuepoints, cuedini or reaper etc).