Backstage Videos - Build and Run the Show
Recordings for building and running the show in Backstage. They assume the server is already set up — that ground is covered by Brainsalt Hub Videos.
This tree follows the written documentation section by section — but it is not a mirror. Most sections have no recording yet, and a recording shows one way through a task rather than everything the written guide covers. The written page is always the complete version; a video shows you what it looks like in practice.
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Warp, Blend & Black Level |
Two ceiling-mounted projectors onto a flat wall, calibrated from a fixed camera: projection wizard, routing, camera focus, marker placement, the calibration run in real time, and blending on and off at the end. Clickable steps, five languages. |
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First steps |
The shortest route from nothing to media on a screen. |
The structure
Every section of the Backstage documentation appears below, whether or not anything is recorded for it. The empty rows are the backlog.
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What a recording would show |
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First steps |
The objects Backstage works with, how the interface is arranged, and an empty project taken to media on screen. |
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Creating a display, the projection wizard, building a surface and projectors by hand, mappings. |
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Video routing, audio devices and mixers, Art-Net pixel output. |
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Mesh warping by hand, camera calibration, blending, black level. |
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Importing media, the Drop Converter, capture cards, NDI, virtual monitors. |
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Building a sequence, steppers, the Broadcast Scheduler, transitions, timecode. |
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Enabling the protocol, a Web Console built and served, Companion, OSC. |
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A first graph, templates, a Presenter area. |
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Reading the Performance Overview and the Log before a show. |
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Linking Backstage and Conductor, and driving channels from a graph. |
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Whole installations start to finish — an LED facade, a dome, an L-shaped wall. |
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Reading a symptom on screen and working back to the cause. |
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Conventions for new video pages
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Title it
Video: <name>. The prefix exists so the written page can hold the same name unprefixed — Video: Panorama Projection with Calibrator Lite alongside Panorama Projection with Calibrator Lite. Both are searchable, and which is which is obvious. -
Open with the player and the language row, then the step text. On the public knowledge base the step text is what readers click to jump through the recording, so each step has to read as a sentence on its own.
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Link the written guide, and have the guide link back. The written page stays the reference; the video shows one pass through it.
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Label it
videoplus the same feature-area labels as the guide.