Backstage - Build and Run the Show
Everything about Backstage — the media server application: building a show, running it, and driving it from outside.
This is the second half of the knowledge base. The first is Brainsalt Hub - Set Up and Manage the Server — network, users, displays, GPU configuration and power. The server is set up there; the show is built here. If outputs are missing or a display is not behaving, that is usually a server question, not a Backstage one.
Start here, in this order
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What the product is and what it is for |
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The mental model — how scenes, content and outputs relate. Worth ten minutes; it makes everything else shorter |
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How the interface works — nothing is where a screenshot shows it, because you arrange it yourself |
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One guided path from an empty project to media on a physical output. Do it once, even if your real job is bigger |
Then build the real thing
The same journey with the choices spelled out: scene, output, warping and blending, content, playback — then remote control, custom logic, monitoring and Conductor as the job needs them. Every stage says what "done" looks like, so you can tell you have finished one before moving on.
Every section
The reading path above cuts across the first two of these. The full set:
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Your first project, plus workviews and in-app guidance — the first hour. |
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Background: the model, the interface, timekeeping, colour, lighting. Explanation rather than steps. |
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The build, stage by stage, with a "done when" for each. |
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Whole installations start to finish — an LED facade, a dome, an L-shaped wall, a stereoscopic rig. |
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What a thing is rather than how to do a job — every node, every window, control by control. |
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A symptom — black output, assets not loading, connections not firing, servers out of sync. |
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Short answers to the questions that come up most. |
Prefer to watch?
Backstage Videos - Build and Run the Show — recordings filed against the same sections, each also written out as a walkthrough.
sits loose at this level rather than in a section. Publish it into the section it belongs to, or delete it.]