Shows
A show is a saved background program that plays on its own during an event — the walk-in music before doors open, a sponsor loop, or a half-time package. You set a show up once, then start it and let it run while you fire slots live in the moment. For how shows fit alongside slots, mixers, and canvases, see Core concepts.
To open the Shows view, select the film icon in the left sidebar. The list of your shows appears on the left; the show you select fills the rest of the view.
Create a show
- In the Shows view, select New Show.
- Give the show a Name — for example, Pre-game.
- Under Audio canvases, pick the mixers the show plays its sound through. A mixer is a named set of speakers, such as the main bowl or the concourse.
- Under Screens, pick the canvases the show appears on. Leave this empty for a music-only show.
- Select Save.
Your new show opens ready to fill with media.
You can reopen these settings any time. Select the pencil next to the show's name to change its name, mixers, screens, or playback options.
Add and arrange cues
A show is built from cues — the segments that play one after another, top to bottom. Each cue holds the media for one moment of your program: a track, a video, a run of photos.
Select Add cue to add an empty cue, or drag an audio or video file straight onto the cue list. Drag a cue up or down to reorder it.
Inside a cue, media sits on lanes. Each cue has one Audio lane (when the show has any mixers) and one lane for each screen you chose. To put media on a lane, drag a file onto it, or select the lane to pick from your media library.
Within a lane, items play in order: when one finishes, the next begins. To hold a photo or a video until you are ready, switch that lane to step mode using its ▤ Step chip — it then waits for you to select Next. Switch it back with → Seq to play through automatically. (Audio always plays straight through.)
Each item also has a loop chip that sets how many times it repeats: ×1 plays it once, ×N a fixed number of times, and ∞ loops it until the cue ends. Use ∞ on a short music loop to fill a long sponsor segment.
Run a show
Select Play to start the show from its first cue. It then plays through your cues on its own — sound through its mixers, video on its canvases.
When the last cue finishes, the show stops. To make it start over instead, turn on Loop at end in the show's settings. You can stop a running show at any time with Stop.
If a lane is in step mode, select Next to advance it to its next item; once a stepped lane has no more items, Next moves the show on to the next cue.
How slots interrupt a show
A show and your live slots share the same mixers and canvases. When you fire a slot that needs a mixer or canvas the running show is using, the show steps aside on just that destination and the slot plays. The moment the slot finishes, the show resumes on its own — you never restart it by hand.
Only the destinations the slot actually uses are affected. A show running on both the speakers and the main screen keeps playing on the speakers when a slot fires on only the screen.
You can also run two shows at once, as long as they use different mixers and canvases. If you start a show that needs a destination another show already holds, ArenaDirector asks whether to Take over — stopping the other show — or to cancel and leave it playing.