Stageflow Quick Start | LED Screen Mapping | Resolume Plugin Tutorial

How to use the Stageflow plugin to quickly and easily remap your content to complex LED stages. We cover all of the basics to get you up and running and ready to map your next gig with Stageflow!
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Stageflow is a plugin developed by Hybrid Constructs that makes it quick and easy to remap your standard VJ Content to complex LED Stage designs with a simple drag and drop interface.
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[@SeanBowes]

What questions do you have about Stageflow?

[@LuhFoReal]

Hi Sean. My stageflow preview window show black even when i have content playing.. what could be the issue?

[@SeanBowes]

Check that you have Spout / Syphon output enabled in resolume. Output> Composition Texture sharing. If its still not working, and you are on Windows. Check Nvidia Control Panel, Manage 3D Settings, and set Stageflow to Use High Performance NVIDIA Processor@@LuhFoReal More detailed info can be found here in the Stageflow Manual hybridconstructs.com/support/stageflow/preview/

[@LuhFoReal]

It worked. Thank a lot 🫡

[@thabeanz]

Another great part of StageFlow is scaling up your slices. You showed it in your tutorial but I think it bears mentioning of why this is so important. On a festival stage, often, you have different pixel pitches for each wall. By scaling your slices you can compensate for these different pixel pitches and have a properly scaled image across your entire composition. If the stage render is made appropriately then you can really on the stage render as a guide to accomplish this. However, it is always a good practice to test this on-site because as any touring VJ knows things change.

[@l.j.crandell5764]

Sean, this is a game changer. I love this. It makes it so much simpler. I am going to grab a copy for sure. Thanks for the discount!!

[@SeanBowes]

Awesome LJ! Glad you found it useful!

[@legacymultimedia7316]

stageflow is amazing! Joris really gave us a treat with this and chaser.

[@SeanBowes]

Indeed! Love using both of them

[@thabeanz]

Great tutorial! I have been an early user of StageFlow and it has completely changed my workflow. A couple practices I’ve found that work well is keeping a consistent order of your looks. For example, I have been touring with the same artist all year using different show files for different sets. If I keep the same order, Look one the whole stage, look 2 just the upstage, look 3 the dj booth; then every time I make a new stageflow setup, my looks will still stay the same within my composition. Obviously this doesn’t always work because each stage is different but sometimes it does and it speeds up my workflow. Another big thing is where you put your stageflow. I never put my stageflow on my composition. I always put it on the clip level and launch columns with multiple clips that have stageflow on each clip so that I have my clips mapped to different elements of my stage. This is crucial because you can’t have stageflow on your composition if it is already on a clip or you will map it twice and look horrible. Another great tool is the mirror function within stageflow. Sometimes I like to have different screens mirrored on the X axis so that my stage is more dynamic. I’ve been meaning to make a tutorial for years now but you crushed this so thank you!

[@hybridjoris]

Preach on, Brother Frank ❤️ May the glory of the input map light your path forever

[@SeanBowes]

Great tips! Definitely need a pt 2 with some more workflow tips and some of the deeper functions and options like mirror and partial coverage

[@hybridjoris]

So much better than the basics tutorial I did!

[@SeanBowes]

It’s essentially a rip off of the quick start page in the manual, so you deserve most of the credit lol

[@user-nl5xx6ll4p]

i actually set up the rig in the beginning of the video stage 8 edc! the design is changing this year ironically .

[@SeanBowes]

Oh sick! Such a great stage, so fun to play on. Excited to see the next iteration

[@ZunayedSabbirAhmed]

nice! watching this video makes me want to get it!

[@SeanBowes]

Get it while the discount is still available! I love it.

[@MASTERDAMUS]

very nice tut brother Sean. i must say for led screens and especially the space outs between the led rectangles is key to a good "full screen" visual on the whole setup type of show, sadly - most of my setups are not like that... this is quite easy to solve without any stageflows, controlling or even setting up = organic & layered slices are not easy at all... at least not in resolume or stageflow at the moment. i do my work around which work, but its still feel like someone didn't think about it all the way through... There 's a lingering problem with the whole method resolume is treating input maps & output maps. most effects work on & with the input map not the actual output map is just one of the problems. i usually work with stages where the slices are in layers - one on top of the other, organic slices in psy-trance & techno stages which are basically a painting... so next mission for stage flow is = Layering & dealing with organic input maps (which are not square or far apart form each other)... we discussed this in my interview with you ;)

[@SeanBowes]

True, it is focused on solving a specific problem mostly. I tend to use a combination of approaches to put a show together still, but this type of work is a big part of the gigs I do so its been a real time saver. There could be some interesting uses for stageflow in your workflow though! It is handy for working with overlapping slices and grouping combinations of slices without having to do a lot of routing and with more control than Slice Transform. Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but it might open up some new possibilities. I think you should develop a PSYGANIC LAYERS plugin though for sure :)

[@hybridjoris]

At the risk of starting an argument in YT comments, I'd like to counter that the problem is not how Resolume approaches mapping, it's you not fully understanding how input maps can help you tackle your issues. Overlapping and organic shapes are not a problem if you prepare your input map well. I'll be happy to talk shop with you, just slide into my dms somewhere

[@espacoanimalanapolis3112]

thanks Sean, so good video, very helpfull

[@SeanBowes]

Thanks!

[@sylvainsalamon6669]

Hi Sean, thank you very much for this very good tutorial on stage flow, would it be possible for you to add the stage representation guide to your DropBox, in order to reproduce your example as an exercise 🙂 Thank You Very Much !!!!

[@SeanBowes]

Sorry about that, I thought it was in there. Thanks for letting me know :) It is uploaded to that Dropbox now!

[@VaioletVideoEdition-gh9vi]

thank you sooooo much!

[@SeanBowes]

No problem 😊

[@dule9808]

Can I use different looks for each level from my composition? Pasting the effect stageflow not in composition but in the levels

[@SeanBowes]

Yes you can apply stageflow to groups, layers, and clips as well

[@VJNirav]

lovely video

[@SeanBowes]

Thank you

[@cameroncoy9042]

Thanks for the quickstart! Is the discount code still active? I'm not seeing one in the description.

[@SeanBowes]

It has expired. I’ve got one active for chaser though! See my latest video

[@soundpark_]

These might be stupid questions. Do the venues for festivals provide all the dimensions for the screen mapping? Also, for small gigs, do you usually improvise, or you are given dimensions for the LED screen or projector's screens?

[@SeanBowes]

No stupid questions here! At festivals and established venues this info is provided via a pixel map or spec sheet. Some gigs aren’t very organized and you need to just figure it out. I have a video coming soon about how to do that! Check out my other LED mapping video for some more info on pixel maps and mapping screens with a pixel map.

[@pseudocorpse7140]

How can I go about updating stage flow? I currently downloaded the “latest release” but it’s v.1.0.3 I see you’re on 1.4

[@SeanBowes]

I am on v1.0.1 in this video. The download link on the hybridconstructs website is the most current, which right now is 1.0.3, so you're all good!

[@shravankumar-gg4gt]

Dear sir two different screen mapping output and show similar composition

[@user-mh8kp2kd7q]

how t o make sage lay out f or making outline

[@Michael_Lightss]

I’d be all over that discount code if I didn’t already own 3 copies of stageflow. Don’t sleep on it viewers!!

[@Michael_Lightss]

Also you did a great job explaining everything. Thanks for the work

[@SeanBowes]

Thanks!!

[@jonathanivgi525]

What software you use for the input diagram?

[@SeanBowes]

I used Chaser to generate this one but there are lots of options. DVision LED Pixelmapper for After Effects, Red Dot Logics Pixel Perfect, Pixl, Stagetool, Plinking Things Mapulator, Mapper Guru

[@Brazcunze]

my preview just stays black, WHY???

[@SeanBowes]

Check out the troubleshooting steps in the stageflow documentation: hybridconstructs.com/support/preview/

[@milenamega3081]

9:30 LOOKS

[@SeanBowes]

🤣 LLLLLLOOKS!

[@cristofross8032]

‎‏༺꧁🤎꧂༻🦅. !

[@TheLeoLeite]

Thanks Sean, so good video, very helpfull

[@SeanBowes]

Thanks!