The local playback engine for live shows. Video, audio, countdown timers and signage screens — fired from one machine, in sync, online or fully offline.
A typical show stitches together a video player, a separate audio app, a timer window, a monthly signage subscription, and a cue sheet on paper. palplayer runs all of it from one board — the operator's board.
Built for the operator at the tech table — fast, offline-hard, and cued clean. Everything a show needs to play, on one machine you control.
Double-buffered playback so every cue hits clean — no flash, no black. Esc drops to black instantly when you need it.
Fire a video and a music bed together, then trigger the fade and start the timer — with per-cue timing you set. Fully customizable.
Drop in your media, then set waveform gain, in/out points and fit per clip. Loop, hold, or rest on a designated slide when a clip ends.
Layout, picture-in-picture, a downstage key, and captions — composited on the main output exactly how the screen needs it.
Play music under video from a separate output — two things at once, mixed the way a real show runs, not one track at a time.
Downstage countdowns you start, pause, resume and reset — big and readable, driven from the same board as the show.
Drive lobby, breakout and hallway screens from the same machine — connect a screen once, control it from your desk. Rotate, assign, done.
Runs on your production LAN when the venue's internet doesn't. The show never depends on someone else's Wi-Fi.
A real Mac app, notarized by Apple — it launches clean, no "unidentified developer" wall. Not a script, not a browser tab.
The whole show is four moves, and you own every one of them.
Drop your video, audio and stills in. Set in/out points, gain and how each clip fits — all before doors.
Group what fires together — a video, a music bed, a timer, a signage change — with the timing you choose.
Double-buffered, so the next cue is already loaded and hits clean — no flash, no black frame, no scramble.
Esc drops to black the instant you need it. Nothing on the screen you didn't put there.
Lobby boards, breakout rooms, hallway wayfinding, the countdown on stage. Connect a screen once, then pick what's on it from the same machine that runs the show.
Planning the event in venuepalpro? palplayer pulls its signs, sessions and sponsors with one code.
One operator, one machine — from a ballroom general session to a Sunday service to a black-box theater.
Walk-in loops, speaker playback, countdowns to doors and breakout signage — run by one person at the tech table.
Song beds, sermon timers, lobby and kids-wing screens — offline-safe and simple enough for a volunteer team.
Clean playback and instant blackout for cues that can't miss, on hardware that doesn't need the internet.
Wayfinding, sponsor loops and room-by-room schedules across the whole floor — from one machine.
A rig that travels: no venue internet required, no per-screen fee waiting at the next stop.
One tool the whole crew learns in an afternoon and trusts on a live show floor.
The show never depends on someone else's Wi-Fi.
Video, audio, timers and signage on a single surface.
Signage runs on hardware you own — no monthly seat per TV.
A real Mac app that launches clean — no scary warnings.
Plans in venuepalpro, gear in gigpalpro, cues in palplayer.
Your media, your machine, your data — not a cloud you rent.
palplayer is the show engine in the Pal Pro suite — the local muscle that runs the room. venuepalpro plans the show; gigpalpro moves the gear; palplayer fires the cues.
No — and on purpose. palplayer runs a live server on your network to drive signage, and reads media from anywhere on your disk. The App Store sandbox blocks both. So it's distributed directly and notarized by Apple — the same way QLab, OBS and Zoom are. You download it from here, and it launches clean.
No. palplayer is offline-first: it plays the show and drives signage over your local network with no connection at all. Internet is optional — only used if you want to pull a plan in from venuepalpro.
Any modern Mac — Apple Silicon or Intel. It's signed and notarized for macOS. You output to your screens and projectors the normal way, and drive signage TVs over the network.
Point any TV or small media player's browser at the show machine on your network. It connects once, then you assign and rotate it from your desk. No subscription, no per-screen fee — the screens run on hardware you already own.
Pricing is being finalized. Early-access users get first word — and a founder's break for helping us shape it.
It's built, signed and notarized now, in final testing. Join the early-access list and we'll send you a build as soon as it's ready for the field.
palplayer is signed, notarized, and heading to the suite. Tell us how your shows run and we'll get you an early build.
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