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Downstage Show Builder

Lay out your Bitfocus Companion pages on a picture of your Stream Deck, then send them straight to Companion. A free Mac app.

Download for Mac Support See it on GitHub

Free. Apple Silicon Macs. Needs Bitfocus Companion.

Why it exists

"As a Blackmagic ATEM user, I got tired of rebuilding the same multi-step, feedback-driven buttons every time a show's sources changed."
Rob Spradling, Downstage Systems

Build the page once.

It doesn't replace Companion. That's still where you set up connections and fine-tune actions and feedbacks. Show Builder handles the repetitive part.

Recipes

What happens when you press a source, with the source left as a blank slot. Build it once, and it works on any input.

Straight to Companion

Send a page directly onto a Companion page, with no fiddling in the import and export screen. Or export a page file.

Combine keys

Hold Option, click keys in the order they should run, and let go. They become one multi-step key.

Saved shows

Keep every deck and page for a gig in one file. Next gig, open it, change what's different and send it again.

Ready-made keys

Flying keys, T-bar dials, SuperSource boxes, tally keys, combo keys and live status like on-air and stream time, plus a wizard for building new ones. The Connections tab brings in the presets from the rest of your gear.

Every deck, side by side

Lay out several Stream Decks in one window, and a Home page builds its own navigation. Works with the + XL, +, XL, 15 key, Neo and Mini, or a custom grid.

Your first page in about five minutes.

Install

Open the disk image and drag it to Applications.

Connect

Type your Companion's address in the header. Your switcher's source names appear.

Build

Pick a recipe, click a source, click a key. Then choose Send to Companion and Build page.

Built around the ATEM so far, with more on the way.

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Downstage SuperSource Builder

Design the background behind your ATEM SuperSource boxes in your client's colors, and get Companion smart buttons that run the whole look.

Download for Mac Support See it on GitHub

Free, in beta: test on a switcher that isn't in a show first. Apple Silicon Macs.

Smart Companion buttons

One button per look. Press it and it works out the move from wherever you are, so there's no list of macros to keep track of. Send the page straight to Companion, or import a file.

A background designer built around your boxes

Brand colors from a logo, patterns, text, title bars, frames and overlays, with 1 to 4 boxes. Every move is written for you as eased macros.

Complete look packs

Start from a whole look instead of a blank background. Your brand carries across every one, and each part stays on its own layer to change.

Buttons that know what's live

A button lights up when its look is on air and turns amber while a move runs, ignoring presses until it lands. Full-screen buttons name whatever is in that box.

No dissolve over a person

Press a look while a camera is live and it hands in: SuperSource takes that shot full screen, cuts to itself where nobody can see it, then moves.

For the ATEM Mini Extreme ISO, 2 M/E and 4 M/E. Smart buttons need Bitfocus Companion.

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Downstage Virtual Deck

A Stream Deck on your screen. Pick any model, from the Mini to the + XL, or a custom grid, and it joins Bitfocus Companion as a surface. Put several decks on one canvas, lock them in place, and save the layout as a show.

Download for Mac Support

Free. Apple Silicon Macs. Needs Bitfocus Companion 4.0 or later.

Virtual Deck's window, with a Stream Deck XL drawn on screen and its keys lit

Any Stream Deck

Mini, Neo, 15 key, XL, + or + XL, picked from one menu.

A custom grid

Set the columns and rows you need, and Companion fills them.

Real keys

Click a key on screen and Companion runs it like a hardware press.

Touch strip and dials

The + models have working dials, and the strip shows what each one is set to.

A surface in Companion

It joins Companion like hardware, and you choose its page under Surfaces.

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Downstage Find

Finds the Downstage devices on your network and opens their apps. Each Cue light shows green when it is live on Companion, or says why it needs a look, and Identify blinks it so you know which one is which. Add one by its address if a network hides them.

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Free. Apple Silicon Macs.

Downstage Find's window, listing the Downstage devices on a network
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