Show caller software
Start, pause and resume in the same place as the cues. The row you are in is marked. The next one is marked. If the keynote runs long, put that cue back on the clock you planned. Show caller tools are part of ShowRun, included in Pro at £8 a month.
The desk
The sheet in front of you is the cue list: number, start, duration, end, what it is, the note, and who owns it. Stage crews call it a run of show. Broadcast and studio crews call it a rundown. It is the same page. You set a show time, the wall-clock moment the show is planned to begin. Start runs the call from there. Pause holds it. Resume continues. The button label is the action, so a deputy can take the desk without a legend.
Rehearsal is its own switch. Lock edit stops a stray click from rewriting a cell while you are calling. A show that covers two days has a day control, so Wednesday’s cues are not mixed into Thursday’s.
If you walk in after the planned start, the show can tell you it is already under way and offer to jump to now, or to begin at cue 1. That is the difference between a file and a caller.
When the plan slips
End is calculated. Make the panel 25 minutes instead of 20 and every later start moves with it. You are not adding five minutes by hand down the page. Stage crews read this as a run of show. Broadcast crews read it as a rundown.
Keep to time puts the active cue back on its scheduled start. It does not advance you. If you are past the planned end, the remaining time is the overtime. You can see it and decide.
The stage timer is on the same desk. Nudge a minute, or send Wrap up, 30 seconds or Last question to the confidence monitor. Preview the line before the presenter sees it.
Everyone else
The crew rundown link shows the live run and follows as you call. Private notes never go out on that link. The production document — contacts, venue, safety — is the crew show doc, with its own link and QR code, so the floor is not scrolling a cue sheet to find the duty manager’s radio channel.
Undo and redo cover the edits, including a row you delete and a change the voice agent made. The voice agent is there when your hands are on a script: say the change, and it lands as one step you can undo. It uses AI credits. Calling the show does not.
FAQ
It is how the person calling the show runs the rundown live: start the show, pause it, resume it, and see which cue is now and which is next. In ShowDocLive that desk is ShowRun, on top of the same cue list the crew can follow.
Yes. The button reads Start when the show is idle, Pause while it is running, and Resume while it is paused. End show is a separate control. A rehearsal toggle keeps a run-through distinct from the performance.
Keep to time re-anchors the active cue to its planned start. It does not skip to another cue. The remaining time is whatever the schedule now says, including overtime if you are past the planned end.
Yes. A crew link shows the live rundown and follows the show. Private notes are not on that page. The contacts and venue notes stay on the separate crew show doc link.
Yes. The timer sits with the rundown: countdown, time of day, nudges of one or five minutes, and messages such as Wrap up on the presenter screen. See the stage timer page. Show caller tools are part of ShowRun on Pro (£8 a month) and Team.
ShowRun is included in Pro at £8 a month. Team is £5 a user, minimum two seats.
Start Pro — £8/month