Pixotope Director - Interface

Left side menu

The menu on the left is divided into 3 different views which are based on specific steps in a production:

The START view is used to handle your shows and machine settings
The SETUP view is used for setting up camera, tracking and video for your open show
The PRODUCTION view is used for adjusting running levels and also controlling them through your control panels

The visibility of the left side menu can be toggled by

clicking on Show/Hide menu icon (all the way to the left) in the header
OR pressing Ctrl+/
reducing your window width to 725px or lower (around a quarter of a standard desktop monitor’s size)

Via the left side menu you get access to a number of different panels:

Learn more about the panels in the START view at Starting Director

Learn more about the panels in the SETUP view at Setting up a show

Learn more about the panels in the PRODUCTION view at Making adjustments and Creating a custom control panel

Provides a link to our online documentation at → https://help.pixotope.com and an option to download it as a PDF.

Links to our Frequently Asked Questions on → https://support.pixotope.com

Opens a form which will create a support ticket.

The Status bar is at the bottom of the screen

shows all connected machines and the status of their main services
- Engine
- Tracking
- VideoIO

Click the Status bar to show more details. The status panel shows

all connected machines
if multi-machine syncing is enabled
the state of their primary and secondary timecode sources, allowing to
- grab a timecode sample by clicking on it
- grab and hold to grab continues timecode samples
shows all running levels, allowing to
- close and reload levels
shows all running main services, allowing to
- restart and stop the main services

The user menu can be accessed by clicking the username in the upper right-hand corner. It provides:

The Windows menu, accessed from the three vertical dots in the upper left-hand corner, provides access to: