Workflow
Everything you do in Backstage, in the order you do it — from an empty project to a show that runs on its own.
The sections below are arranged as a build. Each one produces something the next one needs, and each says what "done" looks like, so you can tell you have finished a stage before moving past it.
Want one guided path instead of every option? Your First Project walks the shortest route end to end. This section is the same journey with the choices spelled out.
The build, in order
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Stage |
What it produces |
Done when |
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1.Scene |
A model of the room — the screens, and for projection the projectors that cover them |
The scene contains the screen and whatever lights it, sized and placed as in the room |
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2.Output |
The connection to real hardware, video and audio |
Every screen shows a signal on its physical device, and audio reaches its outputs |
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A correct image on a projected screen |
A test grid is continuous across the seams and reaches the edges |
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4.Content |
Media in the project — files, live sources, captures |
The asset appears in the Assets window without an error state, and previews |
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5.Playback |
Content arranged in time, and a running order |
The show runs start to finish without anyone touching the machine |
Not every stage applies to every job. Stage 2 is skipped when you are preparing a project away from the installation — build it now, connect it on site. Stage 3 applies only to projection; a display shows content directly and needs none of it.
Then, as the job needs them
These are not steps in the build. They are tools used across it, and you reach for them when the show calls for one.
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Section |
Reach for it when |
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Something outside Backstage has to drive the show — a control system, a browser, a stream-deck surface, a script |
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The show needs logic the built-in windows do not cover |
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Checking it runs cleanly before an audience arrives, or finding out why it does not |
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Part of the show — lighting, motors, effects — is programmed in Conductor |
Complete builds
Whole jobs, start to finish, for particular kinds of installation — an LED facade, a dome, an L-shaped wall, a segmented screen, a stereoscopic rig:
How each section is arranged
The same shape everywhere, so you can skim:
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Do this in order — the short path through that stage. Where two routes reach the same result, they are offered as a choice with one shared "done when", not as consecutive steps.
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More options — situational pages. Nothing there is a step; open one when your setup calls for it and skip the rest.