StageGlass

Screens that work on camera. Props the actors touch, and scenery the room shows.

Prop · what actors interact with

Scenic · what the room shows

Used on

Built for real production days.

Prop · PropPlayer

On-camera phone props · iPhone and iPad

The phone in the scene should work.

Build → PlayReal app · real playback

Captured in PropPlayer. Edited for time. Playback at 1.5×.

PropPlayer turns an iPhone or iPad into the character's phone. Build and play the scene on the device, then cue it from another PropPlayer phone in Remote Mode or the free PropController Mac app. Connect on the same Wi-Fi, monitor the prop, and reset for the next take. A connected Bluetooth keyboard can also cue the scene.

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StageGlass PropPlayer for iPhone and iPad · PropController for Mac is free

  • Rings on cue.
  • Texts that answer back.
  • Alarm at the scripted minute.
  • Green plate in one press.
  • Reset the take in one.
  • Continuity across episodes.
  1. 01

    Build it on the phone.

    Tap Create a scene, then choose a call or message template, or start blank.

  2. 02

    Cue it from another device.

    Open PropPlayer on each phone on the same Wi-Fi. The prop phones appear in another phone's built-in Remote Mode and in PropController on a Mac, with no pairing, code, or approval on the local network. Select a phone and press GO to fire the next beat. In PropController, choose Start Live Monitor for a picture.

  3. 03

    Reset for take two.

    One control puts the phone back at the top of the scene. Nothing to re-type, nothing to re-arm.

Used on

Built for real production days.

What the phone can do

The screens your scene needs.

Real captures from PropPlayer. Each one is a beat you cue, not a video you play back.

  • Four authored Lock Screen alerts: Annie in Messages, Phone, and fictional Beacon Dispatch and Northline Travel apps.The Lock Screen at dusk with notification.Annie's photo wallpaper behind the authored Lock Screen clock.

    Lock Screen, clocks, and notifications

    Pick the clock face and colour, then stack Messages, call alerts, and your own custom apps on the character's Lock Screen.

  • Annie sends a candid photograph with ‘Caught you laughing.’ and receives ‘You got me.’An authored Messages conversation with a Central Park location card.A scripted Messages conversation in Dark Mode.A typing indicator in Dark Mode.

    Messages that answer back

    Script the conversation with photos, location cards, typing bubbles, and reactions. Replies arrive on cue or when the actor answers. Light or dark, the character's choice.

  • An incoming call showing the caller's avatar.An incoming call over an orange gradient background.An incoming call from Annie with a full-screen photo poster.An active call with a timer in the Dynamic Island above the character's Home Screen.

    Calls that ring on cue

    Choose a contact avatar, a full-screen photo poster, or a colour gradient. Calls can keep running in the Dynamic Island with a live timer.

  • A Central Park pin and walking summary in the character's Maps scene.

    Maps for the scene.

    Set the place, map view, and journey details the character needs.

  • Annie's selected map marker above the Find My People panel.

    Find My, on cue.

    Stage fictional people and locations, then choose who appears on the map.

  • The scripted Siri response ‘It is ten eighteen.’ above the Lock Screen.

    Siri follows the script.

    Write the response Siri shows, then cue it for the scene.

  • A ringing iPhone alarm with its slide-to-stop control.A ringing alarm in Dark Mode.The character's Home Screen with filmed app icons and forest wallpaper.

    Alarms, timers, and Home

    The alarm goes off at the scripted minute. The Home Screen carries the character's apps and wallpaper.

  • A green VFX plate with tracking markers in the editor.A blue VFX plate with tracking markers in the editor.A gray VFX plate with tracking markers in the editor.

    Clean VFX plates

    Free green, blue, or gray plates with tracking markers and actor tap and swipe marks. No watermark. Switch back to the scene for the next setup.

  • PropPlayer's character sheet: name, number, appearance, contact photo and call poster.PropPlayer's start screen with Create a scene and Open Library.The Create a scene picker with call, text, Home Screen, and blank templates.

    Continuity stays with the show.

    Characters, conversations, and phone history carry across scenes and episodes instead of starting over. Build the character once; every scene in the show uses it.

Pricing

Build free. Pay for the days you roll.

  • Build free

    Free

    Author, play, record, and export. Live playback, takes, and rendered exports carry the STAGEGLASS · FREE PLAYBACK watermark.

  • Shoot clean

    Weekly or Monthly

    An auto-renewing subscription removes the watermark. See the current price in the app; manage the plan in Apple ID settings.

  • VFX plates + PropController

    Free

    Clean VFX plate frames and the PropController Mac app never need a subscription.

Answers

Common questions

Full support reference

PropPlayer in action.

Preview the PropController workflow: author the character's scene and phone directly in PropPlayer, then connect on the same Wi-Fi, cue the next moment, and reset the scene from Mac. PropPlayer's built-in Remote Mode can also cue other phones. Start Live Monitor in PropController when the operator needs a picture of the phone's screen. Dim, White Balance, Contrast, and Saturation stay in the operator's hands without changing the device's hardware brightness.

Back to PropPlayer

Press GO to play the next captured transition. This is one real sample scene, not a live connection.

Recorded iPhone playback · original transition timing.

Roster

More scene moments

The same scene can move through the rest of the character's phone without loading a different prop.

  • Phone calls
  • Messages & Mail
  • Photos & location messages
  • Clock & alarms
  • Home & Lock Screen
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The sample phone waits on its Lock Screen.
Locked phoneSample iPhone · recorded playback
  • Build directly on iPhone and iPad
  • Cue from PropPlayer Remote Mode or PropController on Mac
  • Keep characters and conversations continuous
  • Local network or Internet Relay connects the phone and controller. Local connections need no pairing, code, or approval. Only Relay rooms use a 12-character code and approval; Relay forwards commands and player state, while live monitor video stays on the local network.

Coming to Mac

The desk for whole shows.

PropMaster is the upcoming Mac app for building screen props across a show: characters, conversations, and media that carry from scene to scene. It is in development and is not publicly available.

macOSShow packagesHands off to PropPlayer

Internal · Mac

Design the screen itself.

Studio is an internal StageGlass tool for creating screen content and production workflows. It is not a public product.

Desktop themesPhone themesFake full apps

Scenic · coming

Scenic Controller

Every screen in the shot. One console.

StageGlass Scenic runs the screens on set from a Mac, iPhone, or iPad at the playback cart, over the show network, with no internet needed.

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  1. 01One press. Every screen changes together.
  2. 02Know it played.
  3. 03Put the set back.

01

One press. Every screen changes together.

Black out, go to the next slide, or start video on up to a hundred screens on the same beat, not in a ripple down the row.

Scenic Controller on a Mac with all eight screens selected in three groups. Each card shows the screen's deck, slide, cue name, and a thumbnail of what it is showing. The bottom bar shows Next, Previous, and 7 observed.
Scenic Controller · Mac Eight screens in three groups, selected and cued from one bar

02

Know it played.

Sent is not the same as shown. Each Player reports the slide it is putting on screen, and the one that needs you is named, with the fix.

The Controller's Warnings list: the Desk iPad has 4 percent of its disk free, Lobby TV runs an older Player and offers Update Player, and Backstage Mac is offline.
Warnings Low disk, an old Player, an offline Mac, each with its fix

03

Put the set back.

A Snapshot saves every screen's content, slide, overlays, and picture settings. Recall it for the next setup, or for a reshoot weeks later, with Undo.

The Snapshots window listing six Snapshots. Lobby reset is compared with the set: five screens differ, two already match, and the button reads Recall on 5 Screens.
Snapshots Recall puts back the five screens that changed and leaves two alone

Everything else

The rest of the console, at a glance.

  • Next twice, two slides

    Every press counts once, even if the network drops out in between.

  • Overlays stay closed

    Logos, green and blue plates, and test patterns stay hidden until you open them.

  • Labels take a slide

    Machine names go up only after a full slide across, never from a stray tap.

  • Match to camera

    Brightness, contrast, colour temperature, and gamma, per screen or all together.

  • Groups

    Group screens by desk, set, or area, and cue a whole group at once.

  • The floor plan

    See every screen where it stands on set, with what it is playing.

  • The Network window

    Install, update, and restart Players, and pull their logs, from the cart.

  • Timecode cues

    Follow camera or sound timecode and fire each cue at its mark.

  • OSC and Stream Deck

    Fire Next, Blackout, or a Snapshot from a lighting desk or a button.

  • Checked before it sends

    A screen that can't play the file is named, with the reason, before anything goes.

  • No internet needed

    Runs on the show network. The rig next door can't cue your screens.

  • Edit in Decorator

    Open a deck from the Show, change it, and send it straight back.

Scenic Controller at iPhone size with the Table 2 group selected: three screens on slide 13 of 28, all observed, above the Next and Previous buttons and the picture sliders.
The same console in your pocket. Cue from an iPhone or iPad beside camera, with the same list and buttons as the Mac.
  • macOS
  • iPhone & iPad
See everything Scenic does

Send

Checked against every screen before it goes.

Scenic checks the file against each screen's Player. A screen that cannot play it is named with the reason. The rest get their copy.

A send sheet for B-roll to eight screens. Six can play it, Lobby TV on an older Player cannot and says why, and the offline Backstage Mac is not sent. The button reads Send to 6 screens that can play it.
Send sheet Six screens can play it, one cannot, one is offline

The Grid

Find any screen on the floor plan.

Place each screen on your set's floor plan and see what it is playing where it stands. Pick screens on the plan or in the list; the two stay in step.

The Grid: a plan of a harbour office set with a wall, two desks, and Camera A. Screen tiles sit where they hang inside the Table 2, Control, and Lobby group outlines. Wall Mac S1 reads BLACKOUT, and the offline Backstage Mac is marked.
Grid A harbour office set, with each screen where it hangs

Network

Update or restart a Player from the cart.

Find the machines behind the screens and add them to the Show. Install, update, and restart Scenic Player, and pull its logs.

Each Player takes cues from one Server. Another rig on the same network cannot cue your screens unless you deliberately take them over.

The Network window: Stage-Mac-1 runs the Server and the Controller, seven Players are listed in the Show by group with version and address, Lobby TV is flagged for an older version, a Spare Mac is not in the Show, and Green Room TV belongs to another Server.
Network window Seven Players in this Show, a spare Mac, and one run by another rig

Timecode and OSC

Fire cues from timecode.

Follow the timecode camera and sound are already running, and fire each cue at its mark. A timecode cue goes to its own screens, whatever you have selected.

A lighting or sound desk can fire cues over OSC, and Stream Deck buttons work through Companion.

The Timecode window at 23.976 frames per second, with lanes for Table 2, Control, and Lobby. Cues such as Board up, Pilot call, Radio log, and Wall black sit on the timeline under the scene markers Sc 71A and Sc 72.
Timecode Cues for three groups under the Sc 71A and Sc 72 markers
01Find every screen.

Turn on a Player and it appears in the Controller. Add it to this production's Show, group it, and place it on the floor plan.

02Send and cue.

Send content to one screen, a group, or the whole set. Then cue, black out, or dim them together, and match them to camera.

03Save it. Bring it back.

Save the whole screen setup as a Snapshot, and bring it back for the next setup or a reshoot weeks later.

Decorator

Makes the desktops and decks the camera sees.

Controller

Cues every screen at once and puts each setup back.

Player

Plays on each screen and reports what it is showing.

Talk to us about plans.Tell us how many screens you run and on how many sets, and we'll recommend one.
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Every screenshot here is the current Scenic build running a made-up production. The screens, decks, and desktops are invented for the demo.

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Scenic · coming

Scenic Player

Put it on any screen. Know it played.

Scenic Player runs on the computer, tablet, or TV box behind each screen in the shot. It plays the file itself, changes on cue with the rest of the set, and reports what it is putting on screen.

  • macOS
  • Windows
  • iPhone & iPad
  • Apple TV

What the Player does

  • Keynote and PowerPoint

    Plays them with their builds, transitions, and media, without Keynote or PowerPoint installed.

  • Video, stills, and Decorator decks

    Or a folder of stills on a loop. Each screen can show something different.

  • Changes on the same beat

    Next, Previous, and Blackout land on every chosen screen together.

  • Video starts in sync

    Every screen starts the clip at once. A late or drifting one is pulled back in.

  • Reports what's on screen

    Sends back the deck and slide each screen is showing, so sent and shown never blur.

  • Recent content stays ready

    Earlier decks stay on the machine, so a Snapshot recalls them without a resend.

  • Comes back on its own

    After a crash or restart it puts the last picture back and checks in.

  • Patterns, colour, blackout

    Test patterns for setup, picture settings per screen, and blackout that keeps your place.

  • Several screens, one machine

    Each connected display gets its own content, slide, and picture settings.

  • Show network, no internet

    Takes cues from your Server only. The rig next door can't fire your screens.

If a screen can't reproduce an effect in a deck, you are told before you send, not when the screen is already in shot.

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Scenic · coming

Scenic Decorator

Forty screens. No two desktops alike.

Forty background monitors showing the same desktop give the set away. Decorator builds the desktops and decks the camera sees, and makes every one different.

  • macOS
  • Opens Keynote & PowerPoint
  • Sends to the Show

New from Assets

Drop in a folder. Get a room of desktops.

Wallpapers, bars, windows, and icons go in. Decorator sorts them by type and builds desktops that don't repeat.

Six different desktops Decorator built from one folder, each with its own wallpaper and its own arrangement of windows, icons, and dock.
Six desktops, one folder Each with its own wallpaper, windows, and dock

Shuffle

One design, dozens of versions.

Choose which layers can change and by how much. Shuffle makes the versions, drops near-duplicates, and lets you preview before you keep any.

Scenic Decorator with a six-slide deck of desktops open: slide thumbnails down the left, one desktop on the canvas, and a Layers panel listing the dock, the menu bar, each window, and the folder icons as separate layers.
Scenic Decorator · Mac Dock, menu bar, windows, and icons, each a layer Shuffle can vary

The editor

Every window, icon, and label on its own layer.

A Keynote-style skeleton with Photoshop-style layers: slides down the side, the canvas in the middle, and the layer stack always in view.

  • Layers

    Hide, lock, group, and reorder anything, with opacity and blend mode on each.

  • Text and shapes

    Draw on the canvas, then set each layer's look and timing.

  • Builds and transitions

    Set how each item enters and how slides change, on a timeline.

  • Preview as it plays

    Play the slide full screen exactly as the Players will.

  • Keynote and PowerPoint in

    Open either and keep working in layers. Anything that changed is flagged.

  • Check it plays

    See which Players can play the deck as built before it leaves your Mac.

  • Send to Show

    One button. The Controller gets the version you approved.

  • Edit from the Controller

    Open a deck already in the Show, change it, and send it back.

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For productions

Need more capability?

Need desktop authoring or a custom interaction for your production? Tell us what the scene needs.

Talk to us about a production