Stagehand Live 2

Prerecorded Material

You can use a dozen of different formats directly from within Stagehand Live. Simply drag a file in a supported format onto a layer to load it. Drop it into a sequencer to add a new cue. Or drag it over the library for importing and tagging the file permanently.

Supported Picture Formats

Format	Extension
JPEG Images	.jpg, .jpeg
Portable Network Graphics	.png
Scalable Vector Graphics	.svg
Tagged Image File Format	.tiff
Graphics Interchange Format	.gif
Bitmap	.bmp

Supported Movie Formats

The supported bitrates and resolutions depend heavily on your hardware. We generally recommend to use Hap or MJPEG encoded movies for best performance.

Container	Extension
AVI (Audio Video Interleaved)	.avi
MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14)	.mp4
raw MPEG-4 video	.mv4
QuickTime / MOV	.mov

Note: Audio channels are not supported. In case audio is contained in a movie file, it will simply be ignored.

Decoder	Format
hap	Vidvox Hap
mjpeg	MJPEG (Motion JPEG)
	All codecs supported by macOS’ AVFoundation

Live Content

You can also access external video sources in order to include live action video into your show. Likewise it is also possible to send the composed Stagehand Live output or individual layers to other systems.

Type	Input	Output	Comment
Syphon	yes	-	macOS only, see http://syphon.v002.info
CITP/MSEX	-	yes	Output resolution limited, see http://citp-protocol.org
SDI	yes	-	Blackmagic DeckLink device required (DeckLink, UltraStudio or Intensity devices)
HDMI	yes	-	Blackmagic DeckLink device required (DeckLink, UltraStudio or Intensity devices)
NewTek NDI®	yes	yes	See https://www.newtek.com/ndi NDI® is a registered trademark of NewTek, Inc.
Devices supported by AVFoundation	yes	-	macOS only, expect some latency. As a rule of thumb, if a camera works in QuickTime or FaceTime, it will work in Stagehand Live as well.