Trim without editing
Set IN and OUT on any video and only that part plays — on the card, on the progress bar, on stage. The file never changes, and you never open a video editor to cut a ten-second clip.
[ macOS — public beta ]
Run the big screen
from one window.
A background that loops underneath.The slide you cued in front of it.Captions and logos over the top.Each one its own layer, each one a click away.
For the person at the back of the room.A laptop, a projector, two minutes before doors.
LayerCue
LayerCue is a live media player for the big screenBackgrounds · slides · captions · logos · YouTubeFree while it’s beta
[ 02 — Layers ]
One screen.
Seven layers.
A background that loops underneath.The slide you cued in front of it — lyrics, video, image.Five overlays over it all: lower thirds, logos, alerts.Each one cues on its own.Change one, the rest don’t move.
| Background | video or image, loops through a crossfade |
|---|---|
| Foreground | the slide you cue: lyrics, video, image |
| Overlays ×5 | lower thirds, logos, alerts |
Keep scrolling — the screen comes apart.
[ 03 — Cues ]
Click a slide.
It’s live.
Every row is a layer, and every layer takes its own slide.Click one and it goes up with a crossfade.Click it again — or hit Clear — and it comes down.The layers underneath never flinch. Try it, this one works.
QLayerState
Session 02
The Long Now
7:30 PM — Main Hall
Dana KimCreative Director
Annex
Screen is clear
In the app: one click sends a layer live · each layer cues on its own · ⌥-click loads a slide into settings without putting it on screen
The showgoes out.Your desktopstays put.
Plug in the projector and LayerCue takes that screen — nothing else.Video, images, music: out where you point them, as long as you want.
You’ve done this before.Or you haven’t. The room can’t tell.
No dragging windows across displays · no edit view on the wall · no “one second, sorry”
[ 04 — Details ]
Small things
that hold up
on stage.
Fit it without Photoshop
Scale and crop any video or image right where it sits: show the part you want, filling the screen without stretching it — or let a blurred copy of the picture fill what’s left over.
Screens you don’t have yet
Build the show against a virtual screen — 16:9, 4:3, vertical, any size — before you ever plug into the projector.
YouTube, as a slide
Drop a link and it plays like any other slide — captions, speed control and all. No downloads, no browser juggling.
Long text splits itself
Paste a whole song or a reading and LayerCue breaks it into slides for you. Style one of them the way you like, then paste that look onto the rest.
Two screens, two showsNext
Support for more than one output is on the way: each screen gets its own mix of layers, from the same cue sheet — lyrics on the main wall, notes on the monitor facing the stage.
Every playlist is a file of its own — copy it to a stick, hand it to whoever runs next week, keep last year’s on a shelf. Your show stays yours.
[ 05 — Rooms ]
Rooms with
a screen.
If a screen faces people, somebody has to run it.LayerCue is for that somebody.
- 01
Concerts & theatre
Looping scenery behind the act, surtitles above it, and a blackout that lands exactly on the beat.
- 02
Conferences & events
Walk-in slides, speaker lower thirds, sponsor loops — cued in order, not fumbled between apps.
- 03
Worship services
Lyrics over moving backgrounds, sermon notes, announcements — run by a volunteer, not a video engineer.
- 04
Talks & classrooms
One person, one laptop: your clips, your slides, your YouTube references — in the order you’ll tell it.
- 05
Shops & cafés
Menu boards, promos, a notice in the window — on a TV, a monitor or an LED wall. Changed in ten seconds, not ten minutes.
[ 06 — Beta ]
Free
while it’s
beta.
The aim is to hold what the professional tools hold,at a price one person can pay without thinking twice.Right now it is beta, so there is no charge at all.Run a show with it and tell us what got in the way.Sign in with Google to use all of it — your settings follow youbetween computers, and you hear when the full version lands.
- Platform
- macOS 13 or later
- Chip
- Apple silicon & Intel
- Windows
- in development
- Price
- free during the beta