Cadence runs your show's time — NTP-accurate clocks, countdowns, and the run of show — puts live audience polls on screen, and fans the exact same picture to your display, the web, NDI, SDI, vMix, wall clocks, and any producer's phone. One engine, every output, on one disciplined clock.
A single disciplined time source answers "what time is it right now" for every output, so nothing drifts. Build the look once; wire it to as many outputs as your show needs. Video outputs render on the GPU at 59.94 fps, in 720p, 1080p or 4K UHD.
Cadence runs a software-disciplined clock: it corrects the Mac against internet time and keeps correcting all show long, so every output — display, web, NDI, SDI, cloud, and wall clocks — reads the same time. The status line shows how close the clock is to the time server, and says so plainly the moment it isn't locked.
Queries NTP in a short burst and trusts the lowest-jitter sample, then re-syncs throughout the show — not just once at launch — so it never drifts over a long day.
Small corrections (under 100 ms) ease in gradually instead of jumping, so a live countdown doesn't visibly skip or tick backward mid-show. Only a big error, like the very first lock, is corrected at once.
Every machine's clock crystal runs slightly fast or slow. Cadence measures that drift and corrects for it between syncs, so the time stays true in the gaps — not only at the instant it checks.
The status line shows the live offset, and the learned drift once it settles. If it can't reach a time server it says so plainly and falls back to the system clock — it never pretends to be locked.
Time of day, timers, timecode, or a live feed from the tools already running your show. Each source is a node you wire into a layout — and a Priority tile lets several clocks share one spot, showing the most important one that's running (the time of day, until a countdown starts).
Analog or digital faces, disciplined to NTP so a broadcast clock never surprises you — sub-frame accurate, and it says so when it isn't locked.
A duration timer, an open count-up, or a clock counting to a fixed time of day — green → amber → red warning thresholds, run-over past zero with its own colour, and Time Shift to slow a timer down (to a stop) or speed it up to 2× when the show runs early or late.
Decode linear timecode off any audio input — auto frame-rate — and drive a clock straight from the house TC.
Mirror the live timer from the systems already running the show — each with a connection-status dot. Follow ProPresenter's video-countdown for a sermon or message timer that stays in sync with slides — a natural fit for a house of worship running its service off ProPresenter.
Push a title, a hold slate, or a timed message to the same outputs as your clocks — show it steady or flashing, with an optional pulsing dot so the presenter knows the feed is live.
Point Cadence at a Rundown Studio show and it tracks the active cue's remaining time, advancing automatically when the operator hits next.
The audience votes from their phones — scan a QR code or type a short link, no app to install. Results build live on every output Cadence drives, styled like the rest of your show.
Load the schedule you already have, and Cadence runs it — cue by cue, timers set from each row, with a live view of whether the show is ahead or behind.
Paste a share link and Cadence keeps pulling it — edits in the sheet show up in the show, without touching the cue that's running or the one on deck.
Finds the header row in a messy sheet, picks the tab in a multi-sheet .xlsx, and lets you map columns — In/Out or Duration, plus your own custom fields.
Schedule status and a projected end time, updated live — and Time Shift to win back lost minutes.
A rundown element for any design — previous and next cues around the live one — on a display, NDI, SDI, or a web page viewers can customise.
Point different timers at different duration columns — one for the session, one for the speaker — each set automatically as the cue changes.
Set & Start, jump to a cue by number, auto-advance on or off, even upload a replacement sheet mid-show.
Sign in with Planning Center and pick a service type. Cadence follows whichever service goes live in Services LIVE — the current item counting down, what's next, and whether the service is running long — with nothing to set up each week.
Time left in the item LIVE is on — amber near the end, then red and counting on as + when it runs over.
Tie text boxes to the live item and the one after it, for a stage display or a lower third.
Wired timers run with each item to its real end in Services LIVE, overrun included, and stay in step with it.
A Service end clock projects when you'll finish and shows how far ahead (−) or behind (+) the service is running.
Take control, then step Back and Next from the schedule tile — it says where LIVE is going until it gets there.
One schedule per service type — Main Campus, Youth — each following its own live service.
Sources on the left, a design in the middle, outputs on the right — wire a cable, and that's live. Every node shows its own status, so you always know what's connected and what isn't.
The Designer lays out how a show looks — position, size, font, and colour, independently, per element. Any installed font, layers you can arrange, and design presets you save once and recall onto any design.
Cadence runs on the Mac next to the gear — driving the display, NDI, and SDI outputs locally, frame-tight, with no dependency on the internet. Timing and direction can happen from anywhere: a producer, a director, or a whole remote truck can start, stop, and adjust the show's clocks over a link, as if they were in the room.
Producers build a show's polls, timers and schedules on the web — from anywhere, before anyone is on site — then hand it to the operator with a code. Free with a LiveLogix login.
Everything between "load the schedule" and "we're clear" — laid out as a node graph you can read at a glance.
Wire sources → designs → outputs, Plugboard-style. New line, no new learning.
Place and size clocks, polls, rundowns, text, boxes and bars — any font, layers, and saved design presets.
Queue up to 50 times per timer on the producer page — Set, or Set & Start, in one tap.
Change a running timer by duration or end time, absolute or relative — type it loosely, with undo.
Design a separate phone layout — phones load it automatically, on the LAN or the cloud.
A Bitfocus Companion module for timers, presets, schedules, cue stacks, polls, messages and cue lights — with live tally.
A GO / warning / stop lamp driven by your timers, and iTach relays for a real On Air sign.
Arm a timer to fire at a wall-clock moment — once, or every day — for hands-free segment starts.
Recall a whole look and timer set with one tap.
A whole show — clocks, designs, outputs — in one document.
Confidence-monitor any output in a window before it goes live.
Quit mid-show by accident? Cadence offers to put the running timers back exactly where they were.
Native macOS. One engine to your display, the web, NDI, SDI, vMix, the cloud, and the wall — and the audience's phones.
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System requirements: macOS 15 Sequoia or later, Apple silicon or Intel. SDI needs a Blackmagic DeckLink card with Desktop Video; NDI is built in.