How do I edit the digital scenery?

Great question! Stage Player gives you the freedom to customize the way the digital scenery works with your production. You have the ability to both eliminate and duplicate content, reorder where things are, and customize the text that displays in the cue sheet. All of these changes can be accessed through the "Settings" button found on the show in your Stage Player library. Please note that any changes you make are device specific and will not transfer to another device unless you utilize the "Sync to Web" button located in the "Edit Cues" menu prior to transferring to another device.

This "Settings" button will display collection-wide settings:

  1. Blackout Settings (at the end of Curtain Warmer, Scenes, and/or Acts)

  2. Animation Options (the ability to re-activate action videos after you've made edits)

  3. Curtain Warmer Settings (the ability to choose between the Show Curtain Warmer, the App Master, or one that you upload)

  4. Show "Edit Cues" button

  5. Show "Configure Displays" button

"Edit Cues" Menu - Across the Top:

  1. Cancel/Back: This will bring you back to the previous menu without saving any changes that have been made.
  2. Save: This button will save all changes you've made thus far, to this specific computer's hard drive.
  3. Save & Exit: This button will save all changes you've made thus far, to this specific computer's hard drive, and bring you back to the main library menu.
  4. Export Cue Sheet: Using this button, you'll be able to put your cue sheet, complete with your changes, into a spreadsheet software of your choice. From there, you can continue to type in it (like adding lighting and sound cues), and print out the cue sheet.
  5. Sync with Web: Clicking this button will save your changes to the cloud. Making it so that if you switch computers, your changes will come with you.

The Cue Sheet:

Across the majority of your control screen, you'll see a version of your cue sheet. All data like the act numbers, scene numbers, description, page numbers, and cue lines are present. When you hover your cursor over any of the cues, a button with three dots will pop up. Press this to get the editing menu.

  1. Cue Next/Jump To: There is a mini-player built into the edit screen of StagePlayer. That way you can see the changes you're making without having to jump back to present/preview mode.
  2. Disable: Clicking this menu option will remove the cue in question from your show. If you change your mind, open this menu again, and disable will be replaced by "enable". Selecting this option will reinstate the cue.
  3. Duplicate: This button will create an identical copy of the cue in question.
  4. Move: To move the cue to a different spot in the same scene, just click and drag. If you prefer to move it to a different scene/act click this button. it will bring up a small form to fill out about exactly where you'd like to move it to. Complete the form, hit move, and watch the cue move to your desired place.
  5. Edit Description: Click this button, and a box will pop up. Anything you type into this box will appear in the "description" spot on this cue in the cue sheet.
  6. Edit Page Number: Click this button and a box will pop up. Anything you type into this box will appear in the "page number" spot in the cue sheet.
  7. Edit Line: Click this button and a box will pop up. Anything you type into this box will appear in the "cue line" spot in the cue sheet.

Common Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them

  1. Always save your changes! We recommend doing this twice. Once with the "save button" so that the changes are saved to your hard drive, and again with the "sync with web" button to save the changes to the cloud.
  2. Disabling Action Videos: When moving cues around, StagePlayer may automatically disable the first part of your following cue. This is due to the transition no longer making sense. If you don't want the action video disables, click on the "animations options" in the settings menu.

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