Chapter 16

Glossary

Term	Meaning
Accepted	The Server took your command and sent it to the Player. The Player has not confirmed the result yet.
Activity	The list of recent actions and how each screen answered. Click the summary line in the dock.
Adopt into Show	Take a Player that belongs to another Server into your Show. Asks once and names the other Server.
Alias	The name you give a Player or screen in the Show, such as "Hero laptop". It does not rename the machine.
All	Select every screen in the Show. Never assumed; always chosen.
Aspect	How content fits a screen: Fit, Fill or Stretch.
Blackout	Take a screen to black. Reveal brings it back.
Build	One step within a slide: an object appearing, a line of text arriving. Next plays the next build before moving to the next slide.
Computer Labels	Each Player's name shown on its screens, for finding machines. A slide-to-arm switch.
Controller	Scenic Controller on a Mac, iPhone or iPad: where you run the show.
Crossfade	A dissolve between slides that have no transition of their own. Set in Overlay Options.
Decorator	Scenic Decorator, the Mac app for building decks.
Deck	Content with slides: a Scenic deck (`.sgdeck`), a Keynote file or a PowerPoint file.
Emergency blackout	A blackout sent by a phone straight to a Player while the Server is unreachable. Off unless the Show allows it.
Fleet Setup	The Network window's guided install of Scenic Player on a set of Macs.
Flash Screen	A coloured border flashed on a screen so you can find it.
Gamma Controls	Fine picture controls for blacks, midtones and whites, per colour channel.
Grid	A floor plan of the set with each screen placed where it is.
Group	A named, coloured set of screens, such as "Office wall".
Health glyph	The dot on a screen's card: green when Live, amber or red with a reason when not.
Hold selection	Freeze the selection so clicks only show details.
Input lock	A Player's own keyboard and mouse locked so nobody at the machine can change it. Your cues still reach it.
Interface Lock	The Controller locked against stray presses. Hold to unlock.
Keep Alive	A Player relaunching itself after a crash, and at startup.
Library	The decks and media on the Server, ready to send.
Live	A screen whose Player is connected and reporting. Also, on a thumbnail, a picture taken from the Player.
Local	A screen changed by someone at the Player itself.
Local Controls	A Player's own controls, at the machine.
Location Mac	A Mac that stays with the set and runs the Server.
LTC	Linear timecode, an audio signal carrying time of day or a show clock.
Media folder	A folder of images and videos sent as slides.
Not in Show	A Player on the network that is not in any Show.
Observed	The Player reports that your command's result is on screen.
OSC	Open Sound Control: messages from a console, QLab or Companion that cue Scenic.
OSC selection	What an OSC command with no target acts on: All Players unless a console has selected something else.
Output latency	How much later a projector or LED processor shows frames, so video can start early and land in step.
Overlay row	Blackout, VFX, Test, Logo, Msg and Trigger. Hidden until you open it with the Overlays button.
Panic: Blackout All	`⌥⇧⌘B`: every screen to black at once, with Reveal these N to undo.
Player	A computer or device running Scenic Player.
Player List	The cards of every screen in the Controller's main window.
Preflight	The check of a deck against each kind of Player: in the Decorator as you build, and in the send sheet before you send.
Previous Content	Something a Player still holds, brought back without sending it again.
Scene and take	How a Snapshot is named, such as "71A · Wide master".
Screen	One display output of a Player. Every cue targets screens.
Selection chip	The control that shows how many screens are selected, and lists them.
Send sheet	The check before sending: each screen with Plays exactly, Plays with changes or Cannot play.
Server	The background process that owns the Show and sends every command to the Players.
Show	Everything the Server keeps for one production: Players, groups, Grid, Library, Snapshots, cues and settings.
Shuffle	In the Controller, a different random slide on each selected screen. In the Decorator, variations of a slide.
Snapshot	What every screen showed at one moment, saved to bring back.
Static Players	Players listed by address, for networks where discovery is blocked.
Take Over as Server	Start a Server on this Mac from its copy of the Show when the old Server is gone.
Test pattern	Bars, ramps, grids and colour fields for lining up cameras and displays.
Trigger	A one-off graphic or video played over the content from one of five slots.
Uncertain	The answer to a command was lost; it may or may not have happened.
VFX	Tracking markers over a solid colour for screen replacement in post.
View only	A Controller that can watch the Show but not cue it.
Warnings	The list of everything that needs attention, from the footer's warning count.
Whiteout	Take a screen to white.