Stage Director vs JustMakeQ

Stage Director is a previsualization app that lets you complete the staging of plays, operas, musicals and dance shows before rehearsal begins. ■ Stage & Mise-en-scene · 60+ 3D props: structures, furniture, instruments, sound gear, backdrops, effects and decor · Opera staples (throne, banquet table, fireplace, grandfather clock) plus walls and columns in European or modern styles, with window options · Rotate and resize props, and stack them with layers (a chair on a platform) · Upload a photo to use as the stage backdrop ■ Actor Blocking · Move an actor and start / arrival markers appear automatically on the timeline · Drag the markers to fine-tune the real performance timing · Each actor has an independent track, so edits never interfere · Organize cast members with seven rainbow-colored groups ■ Lighting Design · Place spot, moving, wash and back lights · Store brightness, color, pan and position per point so lights change and travel over time · Reflected live in both the 2D and 3D stage ■ Timeline Editing · Video-editor style layer timeline · Trim entrance and exit ranges, record movement keyframes · Upload background music and the total duration is set to the track length · Preview built-in sound effects (thunder, waves, birds, bells and more) and place them at any moment ■ Script & Scene Management · Save and switch between scenes by act/scene or page · Import a script and it splits into blocks by blank lines with estimated timings · Lines appear beside the 2D editor and below the 3D preview ■ Sharing & Collaboration · Export as PNG images or 2D and 3D videos · Co-edit in real time over the same Wi-Fi using an invite code · 20 levels of undo

JustMakeQ App is the mobile companion of the JustMakeQ show control software (audio/video/lighting/network cue lists for live production). Connect your phone or tablet to the JustMakeQ desktop machine in seconds, on the same local network, and keep control of the show while you move around the venue. FEATURES • Real-time cuelist: view, reorder, add and edit all 21 cue types of the software (audio, video, image, text, network stream, live video and audio inputs, MIDI, OSC, HTTP, PJLink, VISCA and ONVIF PTZ cameras, group, fade, separator, wait...) right from the app, with their main fields. • Transport: Go, Pause, Stop, playhead selection, instantly in sync with the desktop machine and every other connected client. • Mixer: adjust the master and the 10 channels of the mixing console live. • Routing: view the video outputs, projection surfaces and audio outputs configured on the host. • Automatic discovery: JustMakeQ sessions visible on the local network show up directly, no need to type an IP address. • Permission levels: the host decides whether you get read-only access, transport control only, or full editing. • Interface adapted to iPhone and iPad, dark theme, multilingual. PRIVACY No account, no sign-up, no data collection: the app only connects to the local network of your JustMakeQ machine. JustMakeQ desktop is a show control software (cue player) for live audio/video/lighting operation. More information at justmakeq.com.